The Utah Inland Port Authority has added a coal mine to its development plan in Carbon and Emery counties. The Fossil Rock Mine, formerly called the Trail Mountain Mine, closed in 2001.

Mining was once a booming business in Utah, but as of 2023, data showed that mining in the state had dipped to its lowest ...

Deposits of designated critical minerals needed to transition the world's energy systems away from fossil ... in active mines rimming the Uinta coal belt of Colorado and Utah.

Layne Kennedy Finding a fossil in a coal mine is no big deal. Coal deposits, after all, are petrified peat swamps, and peat is made from decaying plants, which leave their imprints in mud and clay ...

Under a legal settlement, the Deserado Mine’s sole customer, the Bonanza power plant just across the border from it in Utah, must stop burning coal once it finishes burning 20 million tons of ...

Tramping around the coal fields at the mining complex, he picked up a piece of sandstone and turned it over. There was an impression of a fossil leaf on it. He picked up another rock. Same thing.