AN ASSESSMENT OF COAL RESOURCES AVAILABLE FOR DEVELOPMENT
CENTRAL APPALACHIAN REGION
by
M. Devereux Carter and Nancy K. Gardner
U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 89-362
Table A-7 Estimated coal resources in the Sylvester 7.5-minute quadrangle, Boone and Kanawha Counties, West Virginia (in thousands of short tons).
Unrestricted | Restricted | Available | |||||||||||||||||
Original | Mined and Lost-in-mining | Remaining | Land Use | Technologic | |||||||||||||||
Coal bed | Surface | Deep | Total | Surface | Deep | Total | Surface | Deep | Total | Surface | Deep | Total | Surface | Deep | Total | TOTAL | Surface | Deep | Total |
Upper No. 5 Block | 65,451 | 12,181 | 77,632 | 22,874 | 18,833 | 41,708 | 31,269 | 4,656 | 35,924 | 481 | - | 481 | 5,342 | 1,223 | 6,565 | 7,045 | 25,446 | 3,433 | 28,879 |
Lower No. 5 Block | 62,958 | 9,250 | 72,208 | 4,330 | 5,677 | 10,007 | 52,984 | 9,217 | 62,201 | 938 | - | 938 | 21,589 | 4,677 | 26,266 | 27,203 | 30,457 | 4,540 | 34,997 |
Coalburg | 59,045 | 84,955 | 144,000 | 2,715 | 881 | 3,596 | 56,231 | 84,173 | 140,404 | 620 | - | 620 | 8,235 | 12,353 | 20,588 | 21,208 | 47,377 | 71,820 | 119,196 |
Winifrede | 31,190 | 84,423 | 115,612 | 564 | 2,724 | 3,288 | 29,820 | 82,505 | 112,325 | 261 | 68 | 329 | 10,381 | 33,138 | 43,519 | 43,848 | 19,178 | 49,298 | 68,477 |
Hernshaw | 24,464 | 145,424 | 169,888 | 744 | 16,870 | 17,614 | 21,839 | 130,435 | 152,274 | 605 | 346 | 950 | 2,193 | 22,259 | 24,451 | 25,402 | 19,041 | 107,831 | 126,872 |
Cedar Grove | 9,074 | 68,087 | 77,161 | - | 3,781 | 3,781 | 9,074 | 68,087 | 77,161 | 26 | - | 26 | 5,145 | 51,534 | 56,679 | 56,705 | 3,903 | 16,552 | 20,456 |
Alma | 10,460 | 100,042 | 110,503 | 12 | - | 12 | 10,315 | 96,394 | 106,709 | 361 | 576 | 937 | 3,278 | 33,185 | 36,463 | 37,400 | 6,676 | 62,633 | 69,309 |
No. 2 Gas | 8,900 | 121,215 | 130,114 | 25 | 53 | 78 | 8,874 | 121,215 | 130,089 | 560 | 669 | 1,230 | 4,822 | 48,445 | 53,267 | 54,497 | 3,492 | 72,100 | 75,592 |
Lower No. 2 Gas | 9,359 | 151,436 | 160,795 | - | - | - | 9,359 | 151,383 | 160,742 | 1,730 | 506 | 2,236 | 2,953 | 39,057 | 42,010 | 44,246 | 4,675 | 111,821 | 116,496 |
Eagle | 4,816 | 179,595 | 184,411 | - | - | - | 4,816 | 179,595 | 184,411 | 2,937 | 2,614 | 5,551 | 519 | 40,128 | 40,646 | 46,198 | 1,361 | 136,853 | 138,213 |
Total | 285,717 | 956,607 | 1,242,323 | 31,265 | 48,819 | 80,084 | 234,581 | 927,658 | 1,162,239 | 8,517 | 4,779 | 13,296 | 64,456 | 285,999 | 350,455 | 363,752 | 161,607 | 636,880 | 798,487 |
Includes underground mining within the
surface resource category.
Note: Totals may not equal sum of components due to independent
rounding.
Created by the EERT WWW Staff.
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