SurfMin: costs of coal mining

OSM Library Number: 252 Date to NTIS: 02/12/91

NTIS Accession No: PB8l-114985 NTIS List Price: 39.00

CFR Citation: NONE

Title of Report:

SURFACE MINING OF NON-COAL MINERALS (1979). 339 pp.

Performing Organization Name and Address:

National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC 20418.

Type of Report: Final Report

Abstract:

Report discusses Section 709 of Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act and

provides information to the Council on Environmental Quality for preparing

legislative recommendations on non-coal mining. Analysis is intended to be

directly useful to the Act where concerned with environmental protection.

Examines technologies and techniques available for meeting the requirements of

the relevant provisions and discusses alternative procedures for achieving the

purposes of the Act.

Keywords:

NON-COAL MINING

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

Author(s):

(Unknown)

OSM Library Number: 255 Date to NTIS: 02/27/90

NTIS Accession No: PB90-178922/AS NTIS List Price: 17.00

CFR Citation: 30 CFR 816

Title of Report:

ANALYSIS OF THE NEPHEW/SPORE MODEL FOR DETERMINING COSTS OF COAL MINING IN

APPALACHIA (1980). 74 pp. (International Business Services, Inc., Washington,

DC).

Performing Organization Name and Address:

U.S. Small Business Administration, Washington, DC 20036.

Type of Report: Final Report-Computer Model Study

Abstract:

Report presents results of engineering cost analyses of 42 model coal surface

mines in Appalachia which use selected mining and reclamation techniques.

Purpose of the study was to assess the costs of land reclamation as a function

of terrain slope and extent of reclamation. For each mine, costs of individual

unit operations are presented and minimally acceptable selling price of coal.

Cost of land reclamation is a function of the quality of reclamation, angle of

natural terrain and overburden to coal stripping ratio. Nephew and Spore

developed computer program in Fortran IV, level H, and runs on an IBM 360/370

series computer.

Keywords:

COSTS OF COAL MINING

COMPUTER RESOURCES

RECLAMATION COSTS

Author (s):

Nephew, E.A.

Spore, R.L.