A company owned by the Navajo Nation now owns a northwestern New Mexico coal mine, and an Arizona utility has completed its purchase of a California utility's ownership shares of two units of a power plant that gets its fuel from the mine.
BHP Billiton completed the sale of the Navajo Mine near Farmington to the Navajo Transitional Energy Co. on Monday.
In a related transaction, Arizona Public Service Co. completed its purchase of Southern California Edison's ownership of Units 4 and 5 at the Four Corners Power Plant for approximately $182 million.
As another part of a previously announced plan to bring the plant into compliance with federal clean air standards, APS permanently closed units 1, 2 and 3 on Monday.
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