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Coal Reserves of the Matewan
Quadrangle, Kentucky -A Coal Recoverability Study

U.S. Bureau of Mines Circular 9355


Table 4. - Coal seam resources, restrictions, and process losses.

Seam name

Original
resources

Mined out resources

Land use
restrictions

Technologic
restrictions

Barrier restrictions

Mining
losses

Washing
losses

Recoverable resources

Broas 56 0 0 (46) 0 47 0 56
Upper Peach Orchard A 4752 0 104 22 56 1067 1567 1936
Lower Peach Orchard A 1,161 0 12 404 46 316 0 382
Hazard 3,123 0 40 1,016 80 810 476 701
Taylor B 11,566 8 173 1,662 829 3,113 811 4969
Hamlin A 9,397 0 189 3,140 673 2,220 377 2,798
Fire Clay Rider 25,206 133 612 1,417 1,845 7,230 4,559 9,410
Fire Clay 40,782 1,346 674 1,601 3,002 11,209 7,115 15,836
Lower Whitesburg 66,291 0 991 2,316 4,498 17,217 8,136 33,133
Williamson B 115,881 2,667 1,396 7,258 8,362 26,668 19,317 50,212
Upper Elkhorn 3.5 84,194 3,230 634 13,730 5,904 20,858 8,877 30,960
Upper Elkhorn 3D 73,681 0 1,048 5,214 5,128 21,363 5,584 35,343
Upper Elkhorn 3B 132,252 3,839 1,917 18,821 9,613 34,561 18,802 44,699
Upper Elkhorn 2B 125,989 17,265 1,885 74,290 9,722 7,720 2,515 12,593
Upper Elkhorn 1B 145,030 2,729 2,609 9,140 10,404 42,141 14,009 63,998

Seam name

Original
resources

Mined out resources

Land use
restrictions

Technologic
restrictions

Barrier restrictions

Mining
losses

Washing
losses

Recoverable resources

Lower Elkhorn Rider 75,172 0 1,755 60,125 5,214 3,321 1,093 3,664
Lower Elkhorn B 224,886 116,747 3,834 15,447 15,447 17,989 21,774 40,063
Powellton 6,034 0 437 3,246 0 1,087 440 823
Matewan 9,703 0 64 5,096 682 1,574 467 1,819
Eagle B 6,802 6 206 5,203 470 396 85 436
Glamorgan 32,175 0 1,121 9,743 2,221 7,178 2,453 9,459
Total 1,194,133 147,970 19,701 238,845 86,738 231,870 105,715 363,290
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