McKinley Mine
McKinley Mine is a surface coal mine near Window Rock, New Mexico, owned by Chevron Mining, a subsidiary of Chevron.[1]
The mine provided coal for Arizona Public Service's Cholla Generating Station at Joseph City, Arizona; Salt River Project's Coronado Generating Station in Saint Johns, Arizona; Tucson Electric Power Company's H. Wilson Sundt Generating Station in Tucson, Arizona; AbitibiBowater's Abitibi Snowflake Power Plant in Snowflake, Arizona; and Arizona Electric Power Cooperative's Apache Generating Station in Benson, Arizona.[2]
In September 2009 Chevron Mining officials announced that operations at the mine would stop altogether by December 2009. Chevron had announced a few years ago that the McKinley lease would be mined out by 2009 or 2010.[3] The Navajo Tribe had comprised 86 percent of the workforce at McKinley Mine.[4]
Mine Data
- Operator: Chevron Mining
- Owner: Chevron
- Location:near Old Mine RD, Window Rock, New Mexico
- GPS coordinates: 35.665943,-108.932533
- Production: 3,644,085 tons (2007)
- Type of coal:
- Mine type: Surface
- Equipment:
- Number of employees: 214
Contact Details
Chevron Mining Inc.
116 Inverness Dr.East, Ste. 207
Englewood, Colorado 80112
Articles and resources
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- Coal and jobs in the United States
- Coal phase-out
- Headquarters of U.S. coal mining companies
- Global list of coal mining companies and agencies
- New Mexico and coal
- Proposed coal mines
- Coal
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References
- ↑ "Coal: Moving Technology Forward", Chevron website, accessed June 2009.
- ↑ "McKinley Mine" New Mexico Coal Mines Query, November 2009
- ↑ Bill Donovan,"McKinley Mine to cease operations in December" The Navajo Times Online, September 24, 2009
- ↑ Deborah Dasch,"The Many Faces of Mining" MiningVoice, accessed November 2009
