Dyno Nobel Explosives Plant, Wyoming

This Dyno Nobel plant near Cheyenne, Wyoming, makes ammonium nitrate explosives in prill and emulsion form for the larger-scale excavations of the west, including the coal mines of Wyoming’s Powder River Basin. The plant also makes the nitrogen fertilizers UAN and urea. The company is a major supplier of explosive services and technology for industry all over the world, and is the industrial legacy of Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, and the Nobel Prize.