Knife River Coal Mine & Bucket Site

Useful Information

Location:	Beulah. Scenic overlook located 5 km south of Beulah.
Open:	All year Mon-Fri after appointment, 24-hour notice required. [2005]
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Classification:	Lignite Mine
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Address:	Knife River, Beulah, Tel: +1-701-873-4333.
As far as we know this information was accurate when it was published (see years in brackets), but may have changed since then. Please check rates and details directly with the companies in question if you need more recent info.

1917	first ton of coal produced by Beulah Coal Company in underground mining.
1945	MDU Resources Group, Inc. acquired Knife River.
1950	underground mining discontinued, lignite production increased dramatically by larger surface mining equipment.
1950s	mine at Gascoyne, North Dakota, puchsed and a third operation near Sidney, Montana, opened.
1970s	Beulah and Gascoyne mines expanded.
2001	Knife River sold its coal mining operations.

Knife River Coal Mine was one of the largest underground mines in North Dakota. Between 1917 and 1950 over 10 million tons of coal were mined.