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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-9 Estimated coal resources unavailable due to TECHNOLOGIC RESTRICTIONS in the Sylvester 7.5-minute quadrangle, Boone and Kanwha Counties, West Virginia (in thousands of short tons).

  Surface Deep  
Coal bed Deep-mine
Barriers
Geologic
Factors
Interburden
lt 25 ft
Coal
lt 28 ft
Total † Oil and Gas
Wells
Deep-mine
barriers
Interburden
lt 25 ft
Coal
lt 28 ft
Total †

TOTAL

Upper No. 5 Block 1,964 296 1,932 1,357 5,342 42 754 287 44 114 6,565
Lower No 5. Block 1,223 97 19,443 3,622 21,589 90 94 - 3,913 630 26,266
Coalburg 47 3,841 - 4,351 8,235 919 205 5,823 - 5,406 20,588
Winifrede 67 1,555 - 87,569 10,381 350 197 3,997 - 28,595 43,519
Hernshaw 610 250 - 1,585 2,193 397 1,936 2,103 - 17,832 24,451
Cedar Grove - - - 5,145 5,145 10 - - - 51,525 56,679
Alma 95 - - 3,183 3,278 91 929 - - 32,165 36,463
No. 2. Gas - - - 4,822 4,822 163 - - - 48,282 53,267
Lower No 2. Gas - - - 2,953 2,953 513 32 - - 38,512 42,010
Eagle - - - 519 519 841 - - - 39,287 40,646
Total 4,006 6,040 21,375 36,295 64,456 3,416 4,147 12,211 3,957 262,287 350,455

†Not necessarily sum. Calculated separately to avoid double counting of overlapping restrictions.
Note: Totals may not equal sum of components because of independent rounding.

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