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Coal recoverability in the Hilight quadrangle, Powder River Basin, Wyoming:
a prototype study in a western coal field

by
Lee M. Osmonson1, Timothy J. Rohrbacher1, Carol L. Molnia1,
and Gerald L. Sullivan2
 
 

Open-File Report 00-103

Electronic edition

February 2000



 
 
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