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2.05.3 OPERATION PLAN - PERMIT AREA <br /> • ( 1) Production Methods and Equipment <br /> The mining method to be employed is open pit strip <br /> mining. Wheel scrapers and track dozers or other rubber tired or <br /> tracked equipment will be used to handle topsoil and overburden <br /> material. The overburden material will require blasting. A track <br /> mounted drill hole rig will be used to drill the blast holes. The <br /> required blasting agent will be delivered to the mine as needed <br /> from a local vendor. The applicant anticipates the use of Anfo <br /> detonated with electric blasting. <br /> The equipment expected to be utilized for the mining <br /> operation is as follows: <br /> - Two each wheel tractor scrapers, Caterpillar 637 <br /> - Three each track type tractors, 2-D10, 1-D8 <br /> - One each wheel loader, Caterpillar 988 <br /> - One each 4000 gallon highway style water truck <br /> - One each motor grader, Caterpillar 14 <br /> - One each track drill, Ingersoll Rand 6100 <br /> - Two each service trucks <br /> - Two each pick-ups <br /> - Two each coal haul trucks, contract <br /> • The sizes and equipment makes indicated above are for <br /> reference only and will not. necessarily represent the equipment <br /> actually used for the operation. <br /> The topsoil from the initial disturbance area in Mining <br /> Area No. 1 will be stripped and placed in a stockpile along the <br /> north line of Section 33. The topsoil stockpile adjacent to Mining <br /> Area No. 2 may also be used to store some of the topsoil from the <br /> initial disturbance in Mining Area No. 1. The overburden from the <br /> first pit in Mining Area No. 1 and Mining Area No. 2 will be placed <br /> off the coal in a temporary spoil pile. After the removal of all <br /> of the recoverable coal from the first pit, the overburden and <br /> other spoil material from the advancing pit will be backfilled into <br /> the first pit. Backfilled material will be handled by scrapers or <br /> other rubber tired or tracked equipment, and will be compacted and <br /> stabilized as it is handled. Any necessary grading will be done by <br /> dozers with the finish work done by motor graders or pull type <br /> scrapers. Topsoil excavated from subsequent pits will be placed on <br /> backfilled and regraded pits to accomplish contemporaneous <br /> reclamation. <br /> • 2.05-2 May 1992 <br />