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| How many tons of coal from Kentucky are extracted in a year? In 1999, I would estimate that we will mine around 135 million tons of coal in Kentucky. In 1990, we produced a record 179.4 million tons of coal---a record. Coal production in the United States has exceeded one billion tons for the last several years. The growth in production is coming from a region called the Powder River Basin---essentially the state of Wyoming. |
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