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• of the coal within the seam is expected to be 10,600-10,E00 <br />Btu's/lb „ 0,4-0,6'percent sulfur, 5-9 percent ash, and 9-14 <br />percent moisture. <br />Mining would be expected to begin on the parcel in December <br />of 1980. The operation could use the truck-shovel methc~ cf <br />overburden removal and would be supported by one hfarion 191 <br />15-yard bucket capacity shovel and six Euclid 50 ton <br />capacity haul trucks, <br />Coal lease application C-22676 consists of two parcels, __ <br />western parcel and an eastern parcel. The eastern cost <br />parcel is 80 acres in size and the western parcel inclines <br />643.81 acres, Both parcels would be mined by the truck- <br />• shovel method using the same ecuipment and reel=.ation <br />procedures. The east parcel would be mined folloz:irg <br />completion of mining on the western parcel. <br />The aiae could begin at the southern boundary of the lease <br />application (western parcel) and proceed in a northwesterly <br />direction following the outcrop of the Wadge coal seam. The <br />operation weld begin with topsoil removal by scrapers (2 <br />Caterpillar 657 44-yard capacity scrapers). Soil would be <br />either stockpiled for later use, out of the way of the <br />mining area, or hauled bac'r. and spread over graded spoi'_. <br />Any topsoil to be stockpiled for over one year would be <br />seeded to diminish erosion. <br />• <br />24 <br />