
Peabody is headquartered in St. Louis, where the local paper reported that "MSHA records indicate the mine logged more than 1 million hours without a lost-time incident in 2009, and its safety rate was far better than the national average for U.S. surface mines." A Peabody spokesperson said she did not know why the Arizona mine was included on the list.
The Mineral Information Institute reports that the Kayenta mine employees are more than 90% Native Americans. [right, Kayenta mine. Credit MII]
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