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~~'~C <br />Doc Date:12/11/2001 III III III III I'll III <br />9s9 <br />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 <br />One each <br />One each <br />Two each <br />Two each <br />Two each <br />4000 gallon highway style water truck <br />motor grader, Caterpillar 14 <br />track drill, Ingersoll Rand 6100 <br />service trucks <br />pick-ups <br />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 />