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Introduction <br />The Bowie No. 2 Mine was constructed and opened by Bowie Resources Limited <br />during the spring and summer of 1997 with coal production and development <br />beginning on August 15, 1997. The mine began longwall production during <br />November 1999 and currently produces coal at the rate of about 5 million tons <br />per year. <br />There is an active coal mine waste disposal area (Permit Volume IV) that was <br />sized to accept miscellaneous roof fall material and other minor amounts of high <br />ash coal encountered in the mine. Another active coal mine water disposal area <br />(Gob Pile #2, Permit Volume IX) was sized to handle refuse from the preparation <br />plant. This second coal mine disposal area is nearly at full capacity. <br />A third coal mine waste disposal area (Gob Pile #3) has been designed to handle <br />refuse from the preparation plant. The disposal area is located south of the <br />existing disposal area in the field near the unit train loadout. The new disposal <br />area is to have a capacity of about 1,000,000 cubic yards. There is a coverfill <br />pile, topsoil stockpile, diversion ditches, collection ditches and a modified <br />sediment pond associated with the new disposal area. <br />The facility will be located, as shown on Map 15 -1 & 3, in the old 'Bowie <br />Orchard'. The Bowie No. 2 Mine has not generated a significant amount of coal <br />mine waste in the past few years, however the preparation plant generated <br />significant quantities. The coal mine waste generated from the operation during <br />the initial five year life of gob pile #2 was estimated to be about 1,000,000 cubic <br />yards. <br />Volume XI <br />TR -84 - 1 - 12/13 <br />