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Peabody to shut Seneca

AFTER more than 40 years of supplying the Hayden Power Station in Colorado, mine owner Peabody Energy will shut the Seneca Coal mine by the end of this year.

Angie Tomlinson

Currently Seneca has 100 employees and annually ships about 1.6 million tons of compliance coal to Hayden.

Seneca spokeswoman Beth Sutton told Associated Press (AP) Peabody was renegotiating its contact with power station operator Xcel Energy.

“We'll continue to find other sources of coal and have begun to do so already," Xcel spokesman Mark Stutz told AP.

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