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.

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 ...

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.