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southern portion of the permit area. This topsoil and overburden will be used to reclaim the last <br />cut but would also be used to reclaim any cut if the mine were to cease operation before the last <br />cut is reached. See Map2.05.2 -1. <br />During overburden removal operations, some selective handling of material will be performed <br />based on chemical and physical core data contained in Section 2.04.6, Geology Description, and <br />discussions presented in Section 2.05.4(2)(d), Topsoil Redistribution. <br />After the upper coal seam is removed, the parting material composed of alternating layers of <br />sandstone, shale or clay will be removed. Partings and interburden material may range in <br />thickness from a few tenths of a foot to approximately 12 feet. The thinner partings will be <br />removed by loader or dozer and hauled or pushed into an adjacent mined out pit. The thicker <br />partings and interburden will be dozed into a mined out pit or excavated by the shovel and trucks <br />and hauled to a mined out pit. <br />After the overburden or parting has been removed above each individual coal seam, a dozer, <br />loader or motor grader will clean off any overburden or parting material remaining on top of the <br />coal. In order to facilitate handling of the coal, a dozer will rip or break up the coal. Contracted <br />haulage trucks of approximately 25 ton capacity will be loaded by a loader. Once a truck is <br />loaded, the coal will be transported approximately eight miles to the power station. Table <br />2.05.3 -1 lists the major mining equipment to be used at the NHN Mine Mine. <br />Periodically, a small temporary coal stockpile will be established out of, but adjacent to, the pit, <br />along the side of an existing haul road. Coal will be hauled to this stockpile using the rubber <br />tired front end loader and truck fleet. This will serve to facilitate the mining process by <br />removing coal from the pit that would otherwise impede the movement of overburden material. <br />An example would be the removal of coal from the upper seam to the temporary stockpile when <br />the normal rate of shipping directly from the pit would not be fast enough to expose sufficient <br />Section 2.05.3 Page 3 November 2011 <br />