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Energy Map of Southwestern Wyoming, Part A—Coal and Wind by Laura R.H U.S. Department of the Interior Data Series 683 U.S. Geological Survey Plate 1 of 5 110° 111° 189 WYOMING 191 Alpine S 110° 108° 106° 104° U N I T E D S TA T E HOBACK B R I D G E R 45° Sheridan 352 Crook BASIN Campbell Star Valley Cheese Plant Park Big Horn 43° Western Dairyman Company 44° Johnson Weston 43° Washakie Teton Hot Springs N A T I O N A L Index map showing the location of the state of Wyoming Strawberry Creek in the conterminous United States of America Thayne 354 Lower Valley Energy Inc. Converse 43° Niobrara (1.5 MW) Natrona Sublette Fremont Mc Dougal Pass Platte 237 42° Lincoln Sweetwater Goshen 238 189 Albany Afton Uinta Laramie F O R E S T Carbon Afton Wood Products Plant 353 236 Trico Timber Inc. 41° 241 (9 MW)(w) Index map showing the location of the Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative, southwestern Wyoming. 351 LINCOLN COUNTY HAMS SUBLETTE COUNTY Marbleton 350 Big Piney B R I D G E R N A T I O N A L F O R E S T 89 G R E E N 191 109° 107° FORK Point of Rocks Commissary Ridge Commissary R I V E R 108° Shirley Basin 487 Pedro Mts Sublettes La Barge FERRIS MOUNTAINS Kortes Flat 77 Little Colorado Desert Oregon U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Buttes SWEETWATER COUNTY COAL Bairoil (36 MW) 89 28 232 B A S I N Seminoe SHIRLEY MOUNTAINS U.S. Bureau of Reclamation SEMINOE MOUNTAINS G R E A T Lost Soldier DIvide (51.6 MW) Cokeville FIELD Fontenelle Dunlap Pacificorp U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (111 MW)(74) The (10 MW) Pinnacles 42° SEMINOE II (R) Alkali HANNA GREEN RIVER COAL Basin FIELD 28 Battle Spring MEDICINE Seven Mile Hill Pacificorp 42° R E D D D E S E R TI B AV S I N I D E Flat BOW HANNA (99 MW)(66) 287 H A N N A MINING MINING Black Rock Lost Creek Flat Basin DISTRICT B A S I N DISTRICT 189 191 Medicine Haystack Mountains 240 Jim Bridger Bow 789 30 KEMMERER Pacificorp North Knobs CARBON COUNTY MEDICINE BOW MINING (2317.7 MW) (I) (R) 30 SUPERIOR COAL 89 DISTRICT Hanna Site Pacificorp Kemmerer Big Island Trona Mine and Refinery MINING B A S I N JIM BRIDGER U.S. Department of Energy 72 ELK Naughton Diamondville 372 Rhone-Poulnec Co. of Wyoming DISTRICT PACIFIC MINERALS Rawlins (A) MOUNTAIN Rock River LLC (707.2 MW) Opal Cogeneration (? MW)(N) (9.5 MT)(A) UPRR FIELD MINING AES SeaWest KEMMERER Blacks Fork Trona Refinery Sinclair 30 DISTRICT ( 50 MW)(50) PITTSBURG & MIDWAY Tg Soda Ash, Inc. 80 (7 MT)(A) STANSBURY 371 ROCK Chokecherry Alchem Trona Mine and Refinery (P) POINT ELK MOUNTAIN 189 Approximate surface trace ROCK OF Anschutz Corporation KINDT Simpson Ridge of the Darby Thrust Fault system, General Chemical Corporation SPRINGS ARCH COAL INC. Red Rim (1350 MW)(675)(P) (300 MW)(199) which divides the Hamms Fork (30 MW)(N) ROCKS Wamsutter (6 MT)(A) Coal Field from the Green River 13 North Rock MINING BASIN Coal Field UPRR Teton Wind MINING Springs DISTRICT Severson Flats White Mountain UINTA COUNTY Granger Rock Springs 370 Atlantic Rim BLACK BUTTE Sand Basin (360 MW)(240)(P) DISTRICT 71 SPRINGS KCP INC. Delaney Rim Medicine Bow 412 Bridger BITTER CREEK Pass Platte River Power Authority Foote Creek Rim Cumberland Flats Westvaco Trona Mine and Refinery COAL CO. Sierra Madre (8.6 MW)(10) AES SeaWest FMC Wyoming Corporation Green River 789 Pennock (5 MT)(A) Mtn (84.8 MW)(133) 430 Anschutz Corporation (55.5 MW)(N) MEDICINE BOW (650 MW)(325)(P) Tenneco Minerals Company UPLIFT McFadden Green River Trona Refinery Saratoga Pacificorp Mtn Quaking Asp (88.5 MW)(59) 89 B R I D G E R ALMY MINING 414 DISTRICT Lyman W A S H A K I E 130 Mountain View Evanston UPRR B A S I N 530 SIERRA MADRE 410 B A S I N Beaver Creek Hills Edison Mission Group Wyoming Wind Mountain Wind M Sage Creek E Energy Center (60.9 MW)(29) Mtn Haystack D I C Buttes I N E 70 230 FPL Energy B Wyoming Wind LLC O W N A T I O (144 MW)(80) 150 N A L F O 191 R E S T 414 41° 41° SCALE 1:500 000 Base derived from ESRI World Physical Map, accessed in 2012, at Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative boundary—Study area boundary 10 0 10 20 30 40 MILES http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcgis-online-map-and-task- Coal bed outcrops—May include coal subcrop (where outcrop has burned or services/map-services.html Projection: Lambert Conformal Conic weathered). Includes coal beds four feet or greater in thickness that can be 10 0 10 20 30 40 50 KILOMETERS Central meridian, 107.5° West mapped at the scale of this map. Where coal beds are closely spaced, a line may Standard Parallel 1, 20° North represent more than one bed. Because of varying scales and different accuracies Standard Parallel 2, 60° North of maps used in compilation, outcrops may not necessarily agree with mapped Latitude of origin: 40° North formation boundaries (from Jones and others, 2009) EXPLANATION North American Datum of 1983 (NAD 83) Generalized coal rank—Colors indicate rank within coal fields (Trumbull, 1960; Edit and cartographic layout by L.J. Binder Note: because the coal map of Wyoming (Jones and others, 2009), was published as GIS layers, some of the data, modified from Tully, 1996). [Some coal-rank colors may not exactly match symbology, and many of the annotations included on this plate were taken directly from that source. colors on the map due to the use of transparancies to create the map] Medium and high volatile bituminous—The most abundant coal type, intermediate in rank between subbituminous coal and anthracite. High volatile bituminous coal is classified on the basis of its calorific value on a moist, ash free basis (ranging from 24 to 33 megajoules per kilogram; 10,500 to 14,000 British thermal units JIM BRIDGER per pound (Btu/lb) (Encyclopædia Britannica, 2010) PACIFIC MINERALS Coal mines 9.5 MT (A) Atlantic Rim coalbed natural gas well status—Location and status of coalbed Medium and high volatile bituminous/areas of doubtful value for coal—These Surface coal mine—Shaded blue areas indicate permit areas for active mines; natural gas wells as of 2009 (Quillinan and others, 2009) may be divided into three classes: (1) areas containing thin or irregular beds, hatched area indicates mined out/reclaimed areas. Active, proposed, or inactive which locally may be thick enough to mine, (2) areas in which coal is of poor Shut-in well SELECTED REFERENCES mines (as of February, 2010) include mine name, permit number, mine type quality, and (3) areas where information on the thickness and quality of coal beds (surface, underground, or both) and mine status. Symbol indicates approximate Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI), 2010, ESRI_World_Physical_Map, ArcGIS is meager or lacking (Trumbull, 1960) Producing coalbed natural gas well location of pits for abandoned mines and can represent more than one pit. Online Services – Ready-to-Use Content on Demand: ©ESRI, Redlands, Calif., Available at Permitted coalbed natural gas well Subbituminous—Generally dark brown to black coal, intermediate in rank Abandoned mines with limited areal extent are unlabeled (from Jones and others, http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcgisonline/index.html. This and other USGS information products are available at between lignite and bituminous coal. Subbituminous coal contains 42 to 52 2009) Injection well Hettinger, R.D., Honey, J.G., Ellis, M.S., Barclay, C.S.V., and East, J.A., 2008, Geologic map of http://store.usgs.gov/ percent carbon (on a dry, ash-free basis) and has calorific values ranging from Upper Cretaceous and Tertiary strata and coal stratigraphy of the Paleocene Fort Union U.S. Geological Survey Underground coal mine—Approximate location of entrance, shaft, or underground Box 25286, Denver Federal Center about 19 to 26 megajoules per kilogram (about 8,200 to 11, 200 Btu/lb), Abandoned coalbed natural gas well Formation, Rawlins–Little Snake River area, south-central Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey mine workings. Active mines (as of December, 2008) include name, company, Denver, CO 80225 Encyclopædia Britannica, 2010 Scientific Investigations Map 3053, 3 sheets. Available at http://pubs.usgs.gov/sim/3053/. permitted or proposed productive capacity in millions of short tons (MT), and Dry hole To learn about the USGS and its information products visit Jones, N.R., Jones, R.W., Scott, J.E., and Lucke, D.W., 2009, Coal Map of Wyoming, Wyoming http://www.usgs.gov/ Subbituminous/areas of doubtful value for coal—See medium and high volatile status (A=active). Symbol can represent more than one entry or mine. Abandoned 1-888-ASK-USGS bituminous/areas of doubtful value for coal, above mines are unlabelled (from Jones and others, 2009) Waiting for permit State Geological Survey Map Series 93. Accessed on Jan. 27, 2012 at http://www.wsgs.uwyo.edu/AboutWSGS/coal.aspx. This report is available at: Atlantic Rim coalbed natural gas leasing units—Location of authorized and http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/683 U.S Geological Survey National Coal Resource Assessment areas—Boundaries Prospect—Approximate location of shallow pit or underground entry; symbol can Kirschbaum, M.A., Charpentier, R.R., Crovelli, R.A., Klett, T.R., Pollastro, R.M., and Schenk, C.J., represent more than one prospect (from Jones and others, 2009) pending oil and gas units as of 2009 (from Quillinan and others, 2009) Publishing support provided by: represent coal beds and zones that were identified and characterized for the 1999 2004, Assessment of Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources of the Wyoming Thrust Belt Denver Publishing Service Center National Coal Resource Assessment in the Northern Rocky Mountains and Great Manuscript approved for publication on March 30, 2012 North Knobs In-situ coal gasification projects—Name of project and status (I=inactive or Bureau of Land Management (BLM) coalbed natural gas units—Locations of Province, 2003: U.S.
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