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Cloud Peak

American  

noun

  1. a mountain in N central Wyoming: highest peak in the Bighorn Mountains. 13,175 feet (4,018 meters).


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The mine is owned by a Navajo corporation that became the third largest U.S. coal producer when it took over bankrupt Cloud Peak Energy three years ago.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 23, 2022

At least four mining firms, including Cloud Peak Energy and Blackjewel, have gone bankrupt this year, laying bare the decline of a fuel that once accounted for more than half of all U.S. power generation.

From Washington Post • Oct. 3, 2019

Faced with possibly eating $25 million or more in unpaid taxes from Cloud Peak Energy is a situation the county and state shouldn’t be in, he said.

From Washington Times • Jun. 9, 2019

With global prices for coal depressed through most of 2016, Cloud Peak Energy dropped exporting entirely until the final months of the year.

From New York Times • Dec. 13, 2017

Behind them, glinting in the slanting rays, Cloud Peak, snow clad still although it was late in May, towered above the pine-crested summits of the range.

From Warrior Gap A Story of the Sioux Outbreak of '68. by King, Charles

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