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Maximum J:coaomic ]recovery Report Jumbo Mountain Tract Pi. 3 PRODUCTION LEVEL -The andcipated level or' producdon will be accomplished with 3 ~~ oondnuotu miner units, developing on as average of >ir2 unit dtifta per weer and 1 Lnngwall unit producing on an average unit drifts per week. w(~ p ~ Tdrn~ ~.-Pf"d" p t9a- MANPOWER -Manpower to mice coal. provide ty and maintenance support, and surface and underground staff should total 120 persons. 'work four would tffectively produce coal at the 3:'S-miwon tone per year rate. . ~•~ s~ ~ ~ SURFACE FACILITIES - IiMCC a successful bidder very fti now surface fecllltip would be added. An access mad and tiladon portal oa the lease may be required with their pmbable location being in th co.*»er of the tract. About acres cold be disbubed. The current surface coal handling 'des of MCC's West Elk muu: would sern the needs of the Jumbo Mountain tract„ also. TRANSPORTATION - If MCC is the successful bidder the current aansportasion infiastrttcdr:e at the West Elk mine would serve the mining ntxds of the Ftoderal tract. There is a ooaveyor belt system in place froth the train loadout tipple to the current working area undergrotutd. This system could be extended to working face in the jumbo Mouataia tract. 33ST'IIutATED RECOVERY -Recovery should approximate the cvrrrnt recovery of the lottgwall block demonstrated in the adjacent federal lease and would apply to the mineable cal reserves in the Jumbo Mountain tract. T9rat recovery has been 66.9%. It should be noted that tkusm an mineable seserva that could not be incorporated inW the longwdl mineable reserves due to geometric layout of the lortgvvall blocks having W miss odd shaped arcs of the minable reserve. This inconvenience does not render the longwall mining tttethad a poor eheioe. The actual recovery of the total in-plea reserves is estimated to be 37.996, which apptoaimaw the recovery of in-plan reaervas for B-seam reaerva as demoosaatod by actual ooatiaaous minim methods used in the vicinity of the Jumbo Mountain tract. POTENITAL MARI{E!'S -The ct~,nt bleat Elk mine supplies cal for tdectrk power generation ~3e~eAd. Coal contract demands sre expected to increase fmm 1.7 to 4.0 million tons per year from 1993 to 1995 with aggressive marbet sales being Planned by MCC ntanagerrtatt, especially in mid•western U.S. power generation. ~7CI14tLT1Et E?'~ONOMIC RFrOVERY D$TERMIPIATION It has ban determined by HLM mining engineers aced geologists that Maximum Rcorromic Recovery (MER) of this Fedtsal Ir9.' tract cart be achieved by underground mining usrng the longwall method of mining as descnbed is this report.