Hanna Basin Mining Companies and Mines

Page by Bob Leathers

Hanna Town and Mine Map

The Hanna Basin includes the active towns of Hanna and Elmo, along with the ghost towns of Carbon, Dana and Sampo.
 
Forty-three documented mining companies, working over 50 individual mines, produced 220,032,841 tons of coal while operating in the Hanna Basin between 1868 and 2019. During the same period of time, 372 men were killed producing the coal. 

Carbon Aka: Carbon City and Old Carbon Mines

1869 - 1881: 

• Union Pacific's Carbon No. 1 Underground Min​​e​​​ at Carbon, Wyoming

1869 -1900: 

• Union Pacific's Carbon No. 2 Underground Mine at Carbon, Wyoming

​​1869 -1869: 

• Union Pacific's Carbon No. 3 Underground Mine ​at Carbon, Wyoming

1869 - 1869: 

• Union Pacific's Carbon No. 4 Underground Mine at Carbon, Wyoming  

1880 -1885: 

• Union Pacific's Carbon No. 5 Underground Mine ​at Carbon, Wyoming

1880 - 1890: 

• Union Pacific's Carbon No. 6 Underground Mine ​​​ at Carbon, Wyoming​​​​

1889 - 1902: 

• Union Pacific Coal Company's Carbon No. 7 Underground Mine at Carbon, Wyoming

Dana Mine

​1888 - 1891:

• Union Pacific Coal Company’s No. 1 Underground Mine at Dana, Wyoming 

Hanna Mines

1889 - 1908: 

• Union Pacific Coal Company's No. 1 Underground Mine at Hanna, Wyoming

1889 - 1934: 

• ​Union Pacific Coal Company's No. 2 Underground Mine at Hanna, Wyoming

1905 - 1920: ​

• Union Pacific Coal Company's Hanna No. 3 Underground Mine at Hanna, Wyoming

1911 - 1925: 

• Union Pacific Coal Company's Hanna No. 3.5 Underground Mine at Hanna, Wyoming ​​

1911 - 1941: 

• Union Pacific Coal Company's Hanna No. 4 Underground Mine at Hanna, Wyoming ​​

1942 - 1954: 

• Union Pacific Coal Company's Hanna No. 4A Underground Mine ​​at ​Hanna, Wyoming

1918 - 1918: 

• Union Pacific Coal Company's Hanna No. 5 Underground Mine at Hanna, Wyoming ​​

1929 - 1933: 

• Union Pacific Coal Company's Hanna No. 6 Underground Mine at Hanna, Wyoming ​​

1900's

1908 - 1912: 

• Sampo Coal Company and the town at Sampo, Wyoming

1920's

1920 - 1925: 

• Hanna Coal Company, also known as John W. Hay Coal Company's No. 3.5 Mine at Hanna, Wyoming ​​

1929 – 1936: 

• Colorado Coal Corporation's Red Mountain Underground Mine at Hanna, Wyoming ​​

1929 – 1932:

• Johnson Coal Company's Johnson Underground Mine at Sand Creek and Carbon, Wyoming

1929 - 1930: 

• Carbon County Coal Company's Wilson Underground Mine at Hanna, Wyoming ​​

1930's

1931 - 1937:

• Carbon County Coal Company's Carbon Underground Mine at Hanna, Wyoming

1932 - 1932: 

• Carbon County Coal Company's Elk Mountain Underground Mine at Hanna, Wyoming

1932 - 1933: 

• Merl Miller Coal Company's Miller Underground Mine at Hanna, Wyoming

1932 -1941:

• Gus Siltimaki Coal Company's Peacock Underground Mine at Elmo, Wyoming

​1933 -1940: 

• H. B. Northrup Mining Company's Gary Underground Mine at Hanna, Wyoming

​1934 - 1934: 

• Carbon County Coal Company's Abbott Underground Mine at Hanna, Wyoming

1936 – 1941:

• Earl Johnson Coal Company's Elk Mountain Valley No. 1 Mine at Hanna, Wyoming

1936 – 1958: 

• Nugget Coal Company's Nugget Surface Mine at Hanna and Elmo, Wyoming

1937 - 1969: 

• Monolith Portland Midwest Coal Company's Monolith Surface Mine at Hanna and Elmo, Wyoming

​1940's

1940 - 1940: 

• C. R. Cuzik Mining Company's Gary Underground Mine at Hanna, Wyoming

1940 - 1941:  

• Earl Johnson Coal Company's Elk Mountain Valley No. 2 Mine at Hanna, Wyoming

​1941 - 1941: 

• Earl Johnson Coal Company's Carbon County Mine at Hanna, Wyoming

1942 - 1943: 

• Carbon County Coal Company's Hanna Underground Mine at Hanna, Wyoming

1942 – 1945:

• Elk Mountain Valley Coal Company's Gary Underground Mine at Hanna, Wyoming

1943 - 1944:

• Elk Mountain Valley Coal Company's Carbon Underground Mine at Hanna, Wyoming

1943 -1944:

• Elk Mountain Valley Coal Company's Hanna Underground Mine at Hanna, Wyoming

1943 -1944:

• Elk Mountain Terteling Brothers Coal Company's Terteling Surface Mine at Hanna, Wyoming

1944 – 1946: 

• J. C. Johnson Coal Company's Elk Mountain Mine at Hanna, Wyoming

1947 – 1948:

• Public Coal Company's Public Mine at Hanna, Wyoming

1949 - 1949:

• Pioneer Mining Company's Pioneer Mine at Hanna, Wyoming

1950's

1959 – 1965: 

• Hanna Basin Coal Company's Hanna Basin Surface Mine at Hanna, Wyoming

1960's

1960 - 2000:

• Rosebud Coal Sales' Rosebud Surface Mine at Hanna, Wyoming

1970's

1970 - 1983:

• The Energy Development Company and The Resource Exploration Mining Company at Hanna, Wyoming  

1970 - 2017:

• Arch Mineral Corporation and Arch of Wyoming Surface Mines at Hanna, Wyoming

1973 - 1987:

• Medicine Bow Coal Company's Medicine Bow Surface Mine at Hanna, Wyoming

1978 - 1986:

• Carbon County Coal Company's Carbon County No. 1 Underground Mine at Hanna, Wyoming

1980's

​1985 -1988: 

• Amar Incorporated's Hanna Auger Mine at Hanna, Wyoming

 1987 - 1998: 

• Cyprus Shoshone Coal Company's Carbon County No. 1 Mine at Hanna, Wyoming

1990's

1990 - 2000:

• Wyoming and West Virginia Incorporated Coal Company's Sky No. 1 Punch Mine at Hanna, Wyoming

1999 – 2000: 

• RAG Shoshone Coal Company's Shoshone No. 1 Underground Mine at Hanna, Wyoming