Site selection and financial analysis of deep surface mining of anthracite coal. Volume I. Executive summary

Technical Report · Sat Sep 01 04:00:00 EDT 1979

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5269665· OSTI ID:5269665

Manula, C. B.; Kiusalaas, J.; Knight, C. G.

This report provides an introduction to the application of open pit methods for mining Pennsylvania anthracite and summarizes the results of economic feasibility studies of open pit mines at two sites: Wabash Valley in the Southern Field and Bear Valley in the Western Middle Field. These sites were selected on the basis of a previous preliminary investigation of five potential sites as providing a range of economic and mining conditions that could be anticipated in open pit mining. The aim at both sites was to determine the economic feasibility of a conventional truck/shovel mine system producing sufficient anthracite to sustain a large power plant. Primary requisites for the design were maximum extraction and environmental clean-up rather than minimized mining costs. On the basis of this analysis the Wabash Valley site appears to have the greater potential for development.

• Research Organization: Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park (USA). Dept. of Mineral Engineering
• OSTI ID: 5269665
• Report Number(s): FE-9006-T1(Vol.1)
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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