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• • 4 WFC has selected a longratll set-up consisting of American Longwell shields, a Soy Shearer and a Guilich-Dobson face conveyor. Typical panels will be 600' in width and range in length from 6,000' to 11,500'. The main and submain development entries and the panel entries will use entry spacings nominally at 100 feet center-center. Entry widths are 16-17 feet and entry height, approximately one-half foot less than the coal thickness, the top coal being necessary to control the air-sensitive roof. Transportation of the mined coal from the face to the surface will be via the present conveyor system, which rill be extended as needed. Once on the surface, the coal is crushed in a Bradford breaker and truck hauled to the preparation plant at the adjacent New Elk Mine (old Allen mine) three miles to the west. There it is either washed or shipped raw, depending on contract specifications and/or out of seam dilution. A list of major mining equipment at the Golden Eagle mine is as follows: Continuous Miners Roof Bolters Shuttle Cars Feeder Breakers Rock Dust Equipment Chocks Stage Loader Supply Cars - Rails Auxiliary Fana Crawler Tractors Longwell Miner Belt Drives, Tail Pieces Man Trips Loading Machines Shearer Face Cotrv eyor Supply Locomotives -Rail Electrical Power Centers Maintenance Vehicles End Dump Trucks 6 Assoc. Equip. The folloring describes the proposed progression of the mine onto the sis tracts of Federal lease C-067. The 40-acre tract in the NW'aQlp)( of Section 28 was the first tract to be mined with the eatenaion of the seven-entry Third North submain onto the tract in October 1988. A four entry headgate and three entry tailgate have also been driven to the northwest across the tract to serve ae the gateroads for the NW 1 panel just north of the Purgatory Valley. The tract contains the final 1,000' of thia.11.500'.,panel ri~iah is projected to reach the tract in late 1992. ~• _, The 15fj=acs -t in sections 18 and 19 will be reached in late 1990 by the gateroada- llp T passel chose atartline will be on the rest-center of the tract:' - ~ f3.~A' of the Nii 1 panel and 2,000'of the Nil 2 panel and the aasSc ~ed6$ttt' ie rithin this tract. The 120-acre tract is Section 17 will contain the atartline and some 3,000' of panel length rithin the NW 6, 7, and 8 panels. Mining on this tract is projected for 1998-2000.