Enveloped in a smog of coal dust that softens the sunlight into a hazy glow is the An Tai Bao surface coal mine.

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Today (July 14), Peabody announced a deal with the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China to develop a 50 million ton per year surface mine a giant project that would rank as one of the biggest coal mines in the world.

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More than 60% of all coal mined in the UK is produced by the Doncaster-based company at collieries or surface mine sites principally located in the west and east Midlands, Yorkshire and the North East.

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