Information Circular 8678: The Reserve Base of Coal for Underground Mining in the Western United States

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• Personal Author:
  Matson, Thomas K. ; White, Doss H. Jr.
• Description:
  The coal reserve base in the western United States is presented for coalbeds amenable to extraction by underground mining methods. The federal Bureau of Mines has abstracted data on the quality and quantity of coal resources/reserves from numerous state and federal publications and modified such data as necessary to allow computer storage and retrieval. Tonnages are compiled by state, country, coalbed, and rank, and allotted to sulfur categories by statistical apportionment. The coal reserve base in those states west of the Mississippi River, amenable to underground mining, is estimated to be approximately 131 billion tons. Of this total, about 30.8 billion tons are bituminous coal, 100.2 billion tons are subbituminous coal, and 126.4 million tons are anthracite. Lignite is not considered for underground mining in this report. Included in this report is a glossary of terms applicable to a classification system for coal resources and reserves as jointly defined by the Bureau of Mines and U.S. Geological Survey. The purpose of this system is to provide for direct comparison or compilation of various resource/reserve data. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Coal Coal Mining Mining Occupational Health Safety
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• Subseries:
  Information Circular
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  Colorado ; Mississippi ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 8
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  IFOC - Intermountain Field Operations Center
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  242 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:10008030
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB-244909
• Citation:
  Denver, CO: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, IC 8678, 1975 Jul; :1-238
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1975
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Denver, CO: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, IC 8678
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:9519a417461ab54d0ea85ebca41ba92eb55110164bbeece9cddfb3bc094d4c073bc5ca181f13f1c77f78df8e0d2ba7a5b3c6f2ea665d24050f052ca9393fa3ec
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/206210/cdc_206210_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 8.18 MB ]