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Title: Western mine cuts need for trucks

Abstract

At Anaconda's new Coal Creek mine in Wyoming, the 320-million-ton reserve will be mined at a rate of 12 million tpy with a dragline removing two-thirds of the overburden and with in-pit coal crushers and conveyors to cut truck haul distances.

Authors:
Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
6502038
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Coal Age; (United States)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 87:5
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
01 COAL, LIGNITE, AND PEAT; 42 ENGINEERING; SURFACE MINING; MINING EQUIPMENT; WYOMING; COAL MINES; COAL; COAL MINING; CONVEYORS; CRUSHING; DRAGLINES; CARBONACEOUS MATERIALS; COMMINUTION; EARTHMOVING EQUIPMENT; ENERGY SOURCES; EQUIPMENT; FEDERAL REGION VIII; FOSSIL FUELS; FUELS; HAULAGE EQUIPMENT; MATERIALS; MATERIALS HANDLING EQUIPMENT; MINES; MINING; NORTH AMERICA; UNDERGROUND FACILITIES; USA; 012000* - Coal, Lignite, & Peat- Mining; 420206 - Engineering- Mining & Drilling Equipment & Facilities- (1980-1989)

Citation Formats

Jackson, D. Western mine cuts need for trucks. United States: N. p., 1982. Web.
Jackson, D. Western mine cuts need for trucks. United States.
Jackson, D. 1982. "Western mine cuts need for trucks". United States.
@article{osti_6502038,
title = {Western mine cuts need for trucks},
author = {Jackson, D},
abstractNote = {At Anaconda's new Coal Creek mine in Wyoming, the 320-million-ton reserve will be mined at a rate of 12 million tpy with a dragline removing two-thirds of the overburden and with in-pit coal crushers and conveyors to cut truck haul distances.},
doi = {},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6502038}, journal = {Coal Age; (United States)},
number = ,
volume = 87:5,
place = {United States},
year = {Sat May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1982},
month = {Sat May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1982}
}