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area. The gal is sized and then hauled to the loadout where <br />it is crushed and sized per the purchasers specifications. <br />The typical array of equipment used at this type of <br />mine is presented in Table V-2. The heart of this type of operation <br />is the truck and shovel. The shovel in this case will be a <br />front end loader and not a shovel per say. These two pieces <br />of equipment move both overburden and coal during the mining <br />episode. <br />5.3.2 Operation Description <br />'Lois section will present the various steps of the mining <br />sequence in a detailed fashion. The steps that makeup the mining <br />sequence are as follows: <br />1) Staking of area to be mined <br />• 2) Construction of sediment control system <br />3) Construction of roads <br />4) c~vbbing of woody vegetation <br />5) Zbpsoil salvage <br />6) Overburden removal, coal reiroval and overburden <br />replacanent <br />7) lbpsoil redistribution <br />S) l~clamation activities (fertilizing, seeding, mulching). <br />£ach of the above steps will be fully developed below. <br />5.3.2.1 Staking of Area to be Mined <br />A pre-requisite of an efficient mine is the accurate location <br />of pit boundaries so that the developed pit boundaries are con- <br />V-6 <br />