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After another unsuccessful attempt to get $20 million, it was able to obtain $5 million in emergency funding to secure the mines and the equipment.

The attorneys for Blackjewel said they expect to provide another status report by Wednesday.

Wyoming Machinery Co., owns a lot of equipment at the mines and it provides monthly about $3 million in maintenance and other services.

The company said in a release that it intends to compensate employees for time worked before the filing.

Von Flatern said he emailed every state lawmaker this year about requiring monthly payments to counties, but no one responded.

The bankruptcy court also authorized the debtors to pay vendors and shippers that billed Blackjewel before the bankruptcy petition.

It's unclear what the total cost of the resort will be.

The loans can also be used for essential firefighting personnel to the extent required to extinguish active fires at Blackjewel's mines.

BNSF Railway, which has hauled coal from the Belle Ayr and Eagle Butte mines in Campbell County, is aware that their owner Blackjewel LLC, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy business reorganization, a BNSF spokeswoman said in an email Wednesday...

The Bankruptcy Court of the Southern District of West Virginia is scheduled to conduct the emergency hearing at 12:30 p.m. MST.