Mining jobs in the Power River Basin just got a boost from the Trump administration with the Department of the Interior's approval of a mining plan modification that will unlock 14.5 million tons of federally owned coal at the Antelope Mine in northeast Wyoming.

"Currently, the mine site straddles the county line," said Converse County Commissioner Jim Willox about the mine’s footprint in his county and Campbell County. “There was a time we used to laugh that if a shovel went to the right, it went to Campbell. If the shovel went to the left, it was Converse.”

While the coal being extracted comes from the Campbell County side of the mine, Willox said the regional benefits of the mine extension for both counties.

"By extending the life of that mine and the employment that can be there, it

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