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Northeast Wyoming reels from mining layoffs
Northeast Wyoming reels from mining layoffs
Hunter Woodall 307-266-0634, Hunter.Woodall@trib.com Updated 10 hrs ago
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Both Peabody Energy and Arch Coal announced Thursday they were cutting 15 percent from North Antelope Rochelle and Black Thunder Mines. The totals amounted to more than 460 jobs in northeast Wyoming.
“It’s just devastating for a community,” said Wright Economic Development Coordinator Brandi Harlow. “We’re such a small, tight-knit community. Everybody in Wright is touched by coal mine jobs.”
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Wright was started as a coal mining town, Harlow said, and it’s been through ups and downs before. To this day, it continues to be a place in the heart of the Powder River Basin dependent on the minerals industry.
But life in a coal town doesn’t stop at the mines. There are the schools, the bars, the hotels, the mom and pop shops whose livelihood comes from the mine’s success and demise can come from its failures.
Hunter Woodall 307-266-0634, Hunter.Woodall@trib.com Updated 10 hrs ago
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Both Peabody Energy and Arch Coal announced Thursday they were cutting 15 percent from North Antelope Rochelle and Black Thunder Mines. The totals amounted to more than 460 jobs in northeast Wyoming.
“It’s just devastating for a community,” said Wright Economic Development Coordinator Brandi Harlow. “We’re such a small, tight-knit community. Everybody in Wright is touched by coal mine jobs.”
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Wright was started as a coal mining town, Harlow said, and it’s been through ups and downs before. To this day, it continues to be a place in the heart of the Powder River Basin dependent on the minerals industry.
But life in a coal town doesn’t stop at the mines. There are the schools, the bars, the hotels, the mom and pop shops whose livelihood comes from the mine’s success and demise can come from its failures.
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