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<br />Continuous units will use the room and pillar method <br />i~~hereby entries and crosscuts are mined leaving pillars of coal <br />for roof support. <br />The continuous miner cuts the coal from the face and <br />loads it into shuttle cars. The shuttle cars haul the coal to <br />the dumping point and dumps the coal into a feeder-breaker. Here <br />the coal is broken to an 8-inches size and fed onto a conveyor <br />belt to be carried out of the mine to the coal handling facilities. <br />Table C-12 is a list of major equipment. <br />Entries, rooms and crosscuts in continuous miner panels <br />~,• are projected to be 20-feet wide, 9-feet high and on 100-foot X <br />100-foot centers. <br />During the five year plan we will be splitting no pillars as we <br />anticipate no retreat mining. When Northern submits an additional modification <br />or second five year plan which calls fot retreat mining, we will discuss <br />splitting the pillars at that time. <br />,• <br />C-22 <br />7/7/~ -- <br />