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Blue Diamond Complex

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Overview

Mine TypeUnderground
StatusActive
Commodities
  • Coal (metallurgical)
Mining Method
  • Room-and-pillar
  • Continuous
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SnapshotBlue Diamond Complex consists of No.77, Calvary No.81, Bear Branch 2 active mines and No.76 Plant.
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Owners

SourceSource
CompanyInterestOwnership
Blackhawk Mining, LLC (operator) 100 % Indirect
Sev.en Energy AG 100 % Indirect
On June 1, 2020, Sev.en Energy AG acquired US metallurgical coal producer Blackhawk Mining, LLC.

The Blue Diamond Complex is operated by Blue Diamond Mining LLC and Blue Diamond Coal Company, LLC, which are subsidiaries of Blackhawk Mining LLC.

Deposit type

  • Sedimentary

Summary:

Coal seams: Fire Clay, Haddix, Hazard, Hindman, Alma, Upper Elkhorn

Fire Clay coal bed
Flint clay is a claystone composed of microcrystalline to cryptocrystalline kaolinite or halloysite; it is smooth, hard, flint-like in appearance, and breaks with a conchoidal fracture.

A flint clay parting in the Fire Clay coal of the Breathitt Formation (Middle Pennsylvanian, estphalian B) occurs throughout most of eastern Kentucky and in parts of Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.

Examination of Westphalian continental reconstructions, trade wind patterns, and a present-day, ash-fall distribution indicate that the location of the volcanic source for this flint clay was along a line from Kentucky to North Carolina (approximately due east). The intersection of this line with a palinspastically replaced, known Hercynian magmatic arc occurs in extreme eastern North Carolina. This is the approximate location of the volcanic source for the ash.

Because of the extensive distribution of the parting, the Fire Clay coal bed is the only coal bed in eastern Kentucky that can be positively identified over a large area.

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Comminution

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Production

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