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Cooper Ridge UG Mine
(
Central Appalachia Operation
)
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Location:
63 km N from Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
Address:
1197 Rock Creek Ridge Road
Box 203
Clairfield
Tennessee, United States
37715
...
(423) 784-4756
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Overview
Status
Inactive / Suspended
Mine Type
Underground
Commodities
Coal (thermal)
Mining Method
Continuous
Production Start
...
Mine Life
2029
MSHA status was changed to TempIdle on January 15, 2021.
Owners
Source:
p. 1
Company
Interest
Ownership
Kopper Glo Mining, LLC.
(operator)
100 %
Direct
Industrial Minerals Group, LLC
100 %
Indirect
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Deposit Type
Sedimentary
Summary:
The Property is situated in the southern portion of the Appalachian Basin, which contains two-fifths of the nations’ bituminous coal deposits and extends over 900 miles from northern Alabama to Pennsylvania.
The primary coal-bearing formations on the Property are Carboniferous in age, being in the Pennsylvanian system, which includes the Breathitt Formation. The average mineable seam thickness for coal horizons in these formations ranges from 1 foot to over 6 feet. The coal seams are generally continuous and non-complex but may vary in thickness and may also be locally absent. Seams retain normal stratigraphic sequence throughout the Property and no evidence has been observed that seams have been modified from pre-deformational thicknesses.
Mineable coal seams within the Property are typically low-ash with the exception of the Joyner seam, and highthermal content bituminous coals. The maximum seam thic ness may reach over 6.0 feet in the Upper Jellico underground mines; however, the average mineable thickness of the seams in this evaluation generally ranges from 1 foot to 4 feet. Seams are generally continuous, but may be locally absent. Secondary discontinuity due to erosional features is present in most areas, resulting in seam outcropping, or visible exposure of the seam at the surface. Other than oxidation of the coal exposed at the surface, erosion of the seams has no significant impact on the mineralized deposits. All seams outcrop on the property ........
Mining Methods
Continuous
Summary:
The proposed Cooper Ridge Mine is located on Straight Creek. The Jellico seam is accessed via drift entry. Cooper Ridge is a thermal coal operation on the WPP lease.
Production is scheduled for 255 days each year, which represents production on Monday through Friday and occasional Saturdays and idle holidays. On each day, up to four production sections are scheduled to produce coal on two shifts; the third shift is reserved for maintenance and mine conveyor belt and power moves. In 2018, only one section, which comes from Double Mountain, will be operating at Cooper Ridge. After completion of operations at Double Mountain, a second section will begin operating at Cooper Ridge in 2019, a third section will be added in 2020, and a fourth section will be added in 2021 after completion of operations at Ben’s Branch. The sections are configured with one continuous miner available for production in each section.
Principal production equipment for each section includes a continuous miner, two roof bolters, three shuttle cars, and two scoops. Coal is extracted from the production face with the continuous miner and hauled to the mine conveyor in shuttle cars. At the conveyor belt, the coal is discharged from the shuttle cars onto a feeder breaker for transfer onto the conveyor. The conveyors carry the coal to the outside, where it is stacked on the ground to await truck transport to the Kopper Glo coal preparation plant and load-out. The truck haul distance is a ........
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Production
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Commodity
Units
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
Coal (thermal)
tons
......
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173,801
105,754
50,847
13,143
All production numbers are expressed as clean coal.
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Operational Metrics:
Metrics
2016
Annual production capacity
200,000 tons of clean coal
Reserves at October 31, 2016:
Category
Tonnage
Commodity
Proven & Probable
4,065 k tons
Coal (thermal)
Proposed Heavy Mobile Equipment as of December 31, 2016:
HME Type
Quantity
Continuous Miner
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2020
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Corporate Filings & Presentations:
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2020
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2020
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2018
Annual Information Form
2016
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2016
Financial Review
2016
Technical Report
2016
Technical Report
2014
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