Topic - Kayenta Mine

The Kayenta mine is a surface coal mine operated by Peabody Western Coal Company (a subsidiary of Peabody Energy) on the Navajo Nation in northern Arizona.About 400 acres are mined and reclaimed each year, providing about 8 million tons of coal annually to the Navajo Generating Station. - Source: Wikipedia

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In this Dec. 6, 2019, photo, workers employed by the Village of Tewa chop wood delivered from the White Mountain Apache Timber Company in the Village of the Tewa administration building on the Hopi Nation, in Ariz. Navajo and Hopi families in northeastern Arizona that have long relied on coal to heat their homes are looking to other sources after last year's closure of a coal mine. (Melissa L. Sevigny/Arizona Public Radio via AP)

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FILE - In this Sept. 4, 2011, file photo, smoke rises from the stacks of the main plant facility at the Navajo Generating Station, as seen from Lake Powell in Page, Ariz. The Navajo Nation company has ended its pursuit of a coal-fired power plant on the reservation and the mine that feeds it. The decision Friday, March 22, 2019 means the Navajo Generating Station and the Kayenta Mine will close this year, ending decades of operation in northeastern Arizona. The bid by the Navajo Transitional Energy Company had been considered a long-shot. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

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