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Stockpiles will be seeded for stabilization against erosion. Details <br />of this are included in the Reclamation Plan. <br />2.05.3(6) Overburden <br />Experience has shown that a portion of the overburden in mining areas <br />require blasting for removal. Overburden is then removed by scrapers or <br />loader and truck operation. There is approximately a 15 percent swell ~~ <br />factor in overburden that has been removed in this area. The overburden <br />to coal ratio throughout the mining area is u:l. It is anticipated that <br />all overburden will eventually be replaced in the active mining pits and <br />levelled completely. There will be no disposal piles left anywhere. <br />Experience in Pits 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6 has shown a good match of overburden <br />replaced to coal removed. <br />A plan view of the mining plan is shown on the !•tining Plan t+lap. This <br />map gives the dimensions of the surface disturbances that will occur. The <br />depth of the coal varies with the topography and the inclination of the <br />coal seam. The deepest point of mining (maximum height of a highwall) <br />will be approximately 60 feet. This will occur at the first box cut of <br />Pit 4. The dimension of this first cut will be about 600' X 150' X 60'. <br />Other dimensions throughout the mining area will vary. <br />Explosives are used only on an as needed basis. There are no buildings <br />other than Rockcastle owned buildings within a two mile radius of the permit <br />boundary, but a blasting schedule is filed as required in the local paper. <br />4owever, anytime explosives are being used, "Danger, Explosives" signs <br />are posted along the haul roads into the pit where blasting is being done. <br />2.05.3(7) Coal Handling Structures <br />There are no coal handling structures at The Rockcastle Company's <br />mine. Coal is loaded directly from the pit into coal trucks and hauled <br />to various tippling facilities in the area. <br />2.05.3(8) Coal Processing haste and Non-Coal Processing ~daste <br />The Rockcastle Company's Grassy Creek Coal dine produces neither coal <br />processing waste nor non-coal processing waste. Therefore this section is <br />not applicable. <br />• <br />2-85 III-30 <br />