Historic Coal Mines proposed to be reopened.kml normal #sn_ylw-pushpin highlight #sn_ylw-pushpin3 normal #sn_ProposedCoalMine highlight #sh_ProposedCoalMine0 normal #sn_ProposedCoalMine0 highlight #sh_ProposedCoalMine Historic Coal Mines proposed to be reopened Evan Jones (Jonesville) Coal Mine The Evans Jones Coal Mine operated between 1920 and 1968 in Sutton, AK where it produced over five million tons of coal.

In 1937 a coal mine explosion here killed 14 men and stopped production for some time. The mine closed in 1959.

Much of the mine (now known as the Jonesville Mine) is currently under various stages of active reclamation under the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Act. Throughout the 1990's and 2000's there has been sporadic interest in re-opening the mine.]]> -148.9464583930158 61.72223107494808 0 -0.02059277045276929 0 6174.484084634516 relativeToGround #msn_ProposedCoalMine -148.9329336010125,61.72819897763898,0 Wishbone Coal Mine Area of active coal mine planning at Wishbone Hill. #sn_ylw-pushpin2 -149.027047357067,61.6788928597791,0 -149.023345230026,61.67810351573009,0 -149.0217827291,61.6779705946266,0 -149.020394988456,61.67814490114181,0 -149.019448025542,61.6779946227062,0 -149.019445375137,61.6799089079127,0 -149.017549067571,61.67991052979679,0 -149.017549651227,61.68081316301579,0 -149.015649799098,61.68081367205381,0 -149.015651912852,61.6844241965,0 -149.017551983847,61.6844236919763,0 -149.017553139754,61.686211576456,0 -149.019458617429,61.6862113682029,0 -149.019460703345,61.68711228627851,0 -149.023258743208,61.6871117960395,0 -149.023260941143,61.68801257739861,0 -149.028944869886,61.6880137705386,0 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-149.079526665539,61.705756556178,0 Wishbone Hill Coal Mine Proposal Wishbone Hill Mine is a proposed mine site in the Matanuska Valley approximately 5 miles west of Sutton, AK. This area was historically mined for coal as early as 1916 and was most recently mined in the 1980s.

In 1997 Usibelli Coal Mine Inc. purchased the 8000 acre Wishbone Hill Mine site, estimated to have 14 million tons of bituminous coal (as opposed to the lower quality subbituminous coal currently mined by Usibelli), that could be recovered using strip mining techniques.]]> -149.0364185750971 61.70710633331394 0 -0.1933670744323631 0 9765.774966933088 relativeToGround #msn_ProposedCoalMine0 -149.0805043565031,61.70228324020979,0