Blast casting in a sensitive environment
Bicknell Minerals' mine is located in the rolling farm country of Southwestern Indiana near the town of Bicknell. Approximately 600,000 tpy of washed coal is produced from a two-seam operation in the Illinois coal basin which covers most of Illinois and southwestern Indiana and extends into western Kentucky. The firm operates a McNally-Pittsburgh jig preparation plant, and all of the production is under contract to a major utility. The acreage being stripped by Bicknell adjoins property on which an active 250,000 tpy underground coal mine is situated. Bicknell is extracting coal from two seams-the Danville number7 upper seam and the Hymera number6 seam which, with the number7 dips down slightly on property from the southwest to the northeast where underground mining is carried out. The proximity of a working underground mine is a constant factor in operations.
- Research Organization:
- Bicknell Minerals, Bicknell, IN
- OSTI ID:
- 6022511
- Journal Information:
- Coal Min. Process.; (United States), Vol. 21:7
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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