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Interview with Dean Alford ............................... 24
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Coal People Dig Coal: On the Set of COAL .......................................30
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Editorial: Health & Safety Symposium Reactive or Proactive?
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Health & Safety Symposium
Reactive or Proactive? Post UBB is up to Us
I
n West Virginia, the findings of the Governor’s Independent
Team investigating the underground explosion that claimed
29 lives last year at Massey Energy Co.’s Upper Big Branch
Mine are about to be released, or at least were eminent
toward the end of April.
What those findings report in all probability will not be all that
different from whatever determinations are arrived at by MSHA
(Mine Safety and Health Administration) in its investigation.
What is telling is what was said about those findings—
whatever they are—by Lead Investigator Davitt McAteer
(at podium in photo below), leader of the Governor’s group,
and Underground Investigator Jim Beck, a well known and
respected coal executive, in their opening remarks as panel
members participating in the Fourth International Mining Health
& Safety Symposium held April 7-8 in Charleston, West Virginia.
Presumably the same set of facts; two differing views, one that
of a regulator, the other that of a coal miner.
The symposium, sparsely attended with less than a third of
the anticipated 200 participants, was sponsored by Wheeling
Jesuit University’s National Technology Transfer Center where
McAteer is vice president for sponsored programs and Beck
is project director. The two have been associates and friends
for a number of years, both well versed in coal mining, one
from looking down from his oversight perch as a former Under
Secretary for Mine Safety and Health over MSHA and the other
from looking up as mine operator and later a senior operating
executive for the nation’s largest coal producer, Peabody Coal
Co.
While both acknowledged they could not comment directly on
the still-in-progress report being prepared on the investigation,
with their backgrounds perhaps it is understandable, perhaps
expected, perhaps intentional that one said from the report he
would expect, and advocates, reform and the other expressed
restraint.
Making note that their work still was on-going, that no conclusions
had been nor could be arrived upon at this juncture, that “a lot
of work remains to be done,” in his remarks the former MSHA
chief did say there would be recommendations, mentioning
four specifically: The further criminalizing of advance warning
of unannounced regulatory safety inspections, raising that from
its current misdemeanor status to that of a felony; providing
MSHA with subpoena powers; mandatory open public hearings
and investigations; greater emphasis on rock dusting, and full
implementation of underground communication and coal miner
tracking systems
“First,” McAteer had said at the time, “we need to make
advance notice of inspection of a felony. We cannot subvert
the inspection system. Why do you think that the State Police
don’t announce where they are going to place their cars on the
highway?”
Those older than he may recall the tradition of oncoming drivers
flashing their headlights, or those of similar age the truckers
and other CB-ers flashing verbal warnings of Smokey the
Bear being on the prowl and, for those younger than he, cell
phoning, tweeting, texting, instant messaging, facebooking,
even skyping. The old “Us against Them” syndrome between
the regulated and the regulators dies hard.
That that relationship lingers is in no way an endorsement
of advance noticing, rather to illustrate that such a societal
tradition perhaps better would be addressed through education
and training than through crime and punishment, or at least that
the former horse be put before the latter cart to the guillotine,
leading up to McAteer’s next point:
“And,” he told those in attendance, “MSHA
needs subpoena powers”. That’s Subpoena,
from the Latin Sub Poena, meaning under
penalty, as in criminal penalty. The question
of Fifth Amendment rights was raised from
the audience, which McAteer acknowledged
by: “Good question; don’t know.” Sure is,
sure doesn’t but one would think he should
before waving that red flag.
Photo: Charleston Gazette,
Array Lawrence Pierce
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Another
recommendation
McAteer
espoused, presumably another that
will be included in the group’s final
recommendations, is to require MSHA to
conduct more open “public hearings” and
“public investigations” of major incidents.
“(We) no longer advocate a closed system.
(We) need that transparency, that exposure (of being) in the
public eye. (We) need the media there looking down our throats.
(We) have done this, (we) have done that right.”
offered: “Do you know why we have to measure particulates to
the nth degree? Because we can, not because it is necessary.”
Capability and necessity are two different things, or should be.
One only can imagine the candor this would promote from those
giving testimony. Perhaps his earlier metaphor of the speed trap
in condemning advance notice of inspections could be applied
here, open public police interrogations of suspects in a crime
with the media present looking down those throats. That does
seem a bit counterproductive, but let them make their case.
For his part, Beck told the audience his were “unique
circumstances” that, as the primary underground investigator,
he regularly went underground with teams of his choosing
and that he had found “throughout the whole investigation”
that he was “very pleased with all parties;” with their “utmost
professional courtesy”. Though he did note that, in his opinion,
what was needed was not new laws and regulations but the
tweaking of those already existent.
In fairness, not all that McAteer had to say bordered on the
extreme, and quite a bit of it would have most mine operators
nodding in agreement, such as his comments on rock dusting
return air courses, though his “and all sections anytime coal is
being mined” may require further definition.
Noting that the importance of rock dusting has been known
for 80 years, McAteer termed its application by the industry a
failure, charging that the industry continues to use “antiquated
piecemeal systems” while not applying today’s available
technology. “It’s time consuming and a pain in the neck, but
when done it provides a level of defense needed.” He also
advocates the installation of “passive rock dust barriers” that
would be useful in knocking down an explosion.
From “all sections” McAteer moved onto “all machines,”
noting that there are machine shutdown motion detectors on
continuous miner machines and that there is a “need on all.”
“We have the technology, have the capability to do it but we are
not doing it,” he said. That brought to mind the statement made
years ago by a veteran US Bureau of Mines researcher when he
“It doesn’t take a bunch of new laws to help the industry,”
he said, “it’s tweaking existing laws, and being proactive on
everyone’s part who is involved in the coal industry. And any
new laws (that do come about), be sure they are focused.”
Which to some degree points to another societal tradition that
just as when legislative bodies meet they must legislate, create
new laws, when regulatory bodies meet they must regulate,
create new regulations. That hasn’t necessarily been written,
but it certainly has been done, and shouldn’t be. Beck’s very
point.
The Governor’s Independent Team has completed its
investigation, if not its work, but when it does, expect the
recommendations to be more stringent enforcement of
regulations, along with new regulations, more power to those
enforcing the regulations and greater penalties for those
violating those regulations. Not all of them will be right, but not
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all of them will be wrong, either.
The Upper Big Branch mine disaster
was a terrible tragedy, to the most
heart-wrenching degree to the families
and loved ones of the 29 men who lost
their lives April 5 of last year; they will
remember all too well their loss long after
the memorial services and investigations
are done and gone from the public eye.
But, as an industry, we will live with
results of those investigations long into
the future.
Partly, that will evolve from what is
learned through the investigations—all
of them, the State, the Federal, Massey
Coal Co., the United Mine Workers of
America— and partly from how what is
learned is perceived by the regulators and
by those who have influence with them,
including appointed and elected officials
and the general public. Without doubt, a
goodly portion of those perceptions will
be derived from how the industry reacts
to what transpires.
Undoubtedly,
the
Governor’s
Independent Team et al will have their
share of extremes, but that doesn’t
mean everything forthcoming will be
unreasonable or unattainable. Knee jerk
reactions of the past, the old It’s us against
them stance, would be devastating. If the
coal industry is to come out of this tragedy
and all its ramifications a stronger, better,
safer and, yes, even more productive
industry, it will require an honest appraisal
of their and other’s “recommendations” to
determine that which not only is possible
but perhaps that which is desirable and
should be endorsed.
Now is not the time to man the
ramparts, but the time to digest what
will be suggested, recommended, and
proposed, not only to accept but to
advocate that which is beneficial, and to
explain and bring about change in that
which is not.
As Beck told his audience, “Some recent
new laws are reactive; I much would
rather see the focus be on proactive,
don’t let these things happen.” The
Big Branch Mine disaster has put the
industry under renewed scrutiny and no
doubt there will be new laws and new
regulations. There also will be, as Beck
suggested, the opportunity to come out
of this a stronger, better, more proactive
industry. Reactive, proactive, the choice
will be ours.
coal people comments
On the anniversary of
Upper Big Branch:
“...We’ve learned much
since the tragedy at Upper Big Branch, especially
how to better use available
tools to keep miners safe,
including targeted enforcement, regulatory reforms and compliance assistance. We’ve implemented
‘impact inspections’ to specifically target
problem mines. We’ve proposed regulations to require operators to find and fix
violations. And, we have cracked down
on mines with recurring problems....In the
end, we must be empowered to change
the culture in some parts of the mining
industry, because our inspectors cannot
be in every mine, every hour, every day.
“Yes, I’m thinking about coal miners today ... and about their families. I’m thinking about the wives who lost husbands,
parents who lost sons and children who
lost fathers a year ago. And I’m thinking
that we’ve all got to do more than just
think about mine safety.”
– Hilda Solis, US secretary of Labor.
“Coal clearly needs
to be the keystone of
US energy policy. The
drawbacks of relying on
technologies favored by
President Obama, such
as solar, and wind power,
are clean. And concerns
about the nuclear industry were renewed
because of the disaster in Japan. But
Obama and the EPA continue to pursue
their vendetta against coal. Few weeks
pass without news of some new EPA
initiative against the coal industry. “
– US Rep. David McKinley.
“US coal-based plants
will have spent an
estimated $125 billion
to comply with clean
air requirements by
2015, with most of
this investment going
to retrofits of existing
plants. US coal-based power plants
have already reduced mercury emissions
by 40 percent – the most of any country –
with additional reductions to come using
advanced clean coal technologies.
With this rule (EPA’s utility MACT
standard) coming on top of additional
rules now pending at the agency, EPA
could negate the positive contributions
the coal-based utility sector has made
to cleaner air and affordable and
dependable electricity generation. The
result would be higher utility bills for
households and businesses, substantial
job losses and a significant weakening of
the nation’s electricity reliability.”
– NMA President/CEO Hal Quinn.
“We must make a very clear distinction
between
environmentalists
and
conservationists.
Environmentalists
are opposed to any further scientific
explorations anywhere that could
possibly do any harm, real or imagined,
to the environment. They generally hate
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coal people comments
as pictures of polar bears supposedly
stranded on ice floes, or melting glaciers
in the Arctic.
Environmentalists are
hysterical nuts who are capable of
sending mail-bombs to scientists.”
– Sam Blumenfeld.
“Air pollution is largely a thing of the
past in the vast majority of the US. In
areas where air quality may occasionally
be problematical, mainly California,
such events are mainly due to vehicle
emissions (i.e., not electricity generation),
and California’s particular topography
and weather. Moreover, there are no
coal-fired power plants in California. So
the claim that emissions from coal-fired
plants cause any health problems and
associated health costs whatsoever lies
somewhere in the continuum of wrongto-pretend.”
– JunkScience.com.
“The president’s goal of reducing
oil imports is attainable, if we use the
enormous potential of our nation’s coal
reserves – for creating an array of fuels
that can lessen our dependence on
foreign oil. The technology exists today
that can transform our coal resources
into clean, affordable transportation fuels,
provide a wide range of industrial fuels
,and supplement the energy needs of our
armed forces and all the while creating
thousands of jobs across the country.
More energy resides in American coal
than exists in the oil of the Persian Gulf.”
– NMA.
“Environmental Protection Agency
bureaucrats have thumbed their
collective noses at record-high
unemployment in the US, the cost of
living for American families, and the cost
of operating a business. Even at a time
of great economic stress, EPA is poised
to enact a series of backdoor regulatory
mandates – without any Congressional
approval – that threaten millions of
American jobs and increases the cost
of every household electricity rates. It’s
called the EPA ‘Train Wreck,’ and it’s right
around the bend.”
– American Resources Review.
“Mining in Eastern Kentucky is not
about mountains, it is about people.
It is about people who want jobs, health
insurance, usable land for economic
development and clean water. Coal
mining, including mountaintop removal,
is a great provider of these wants for all of
Appalachia. When I read the comments
made by some of the protesters, they
made as much sense as banning salt on
highways to protect snow. Now a group of
people, by protesting one of Appalachia’s
largest industries, is ridiculing our way of
life. They are telling us what they want,
as opposed to what we want.”
– G. Frank Ramsey, Pikeville, KY.
“Taken as a whole, EPA’s anticoal regulatory agenda could force
the closure of about 20 percent of
America’s coal fleet of power plants.
These plants produce enough electricity
to power the equivalent of about 50
million homes each year. This electricity
would have to be produced from more
expensive power production options,
which would force increases in the
electricity bills being paid by consumers
and businesses.”
– Edward Dalrymple, Jr., president of
Cedar Mountain Stone Corp.
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ZERO FATALITIES,
INCIDENTS IS
THE GOAL:
Coal People with
“Safety on Their Minds”
Gather at Annual Symposium
by Al Skinner
A
hardcore, concerned group of coal people with safety on their minds exchanged ideas
and heeded the words of federal and state authorities, along with industry leaders at the
International Symposium on Mining Health & Safety this past April at the Civic Center in
Charleston, West Virginia. All agreed the meetings were fruitful, while setting the stage for
a time of “perfect safety” in the coal mines.
The fourth international symposium was sponsored by the Wheeling Jesuit University’s National
Technology Transfer Center (NTTC), bringing together industry leaders, government officials,
legislators, technology specialists, manufacturers, members of academia and miners and their
families.
Many advertisers and supporters of Coal People Magazine were in attendance, including Bob
Saxton of American Mine Research in Rocky Gap, Virginia. Saxton focuses his services to the
coal industry on good safety procedure, indicative of other concerned service/manufacturers in the
coal field.
Special investigator Davitt McAteer opened the symposium, discussing his investigation of the
Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch Mine disaster where 29 miners were killed a year ago. He
emphasized that the coal industry needs to adopt more effective dust-control measures and
comprehensive monitoring for explosive gases to avoid disasters like the one at UBB. He added
that the criminal mine-safety statutes need to be broadened and federal regulators need to abandon
closed-door investigations after major accidents.
“There are not pre-ordained numbers of miners who have to perish to produce the nation’s energy,”
he continued. “The fate of these miners is not in the hands of God, but in the hands of the mining
community.”
McAteer outlined the following recommendations:
• Congress should pass legislation making it a felony for anyone to ‘subvert the inspection system’
by warning workers or mine management that government inspectors are on their way to a mine or
headed underground.
• Federal and state authorities should require more comprehensive application by coal operators of
crushed limestone, or ‘rock dust,’ in underground mines, using mechanical application methods, to
prevent small ignitions from turning into major explosions.
• Regulators should require operators to use ‘passive barriers,’ such as bags or boxes of rock dust
or water, which have been shown effective in other countries at preventing the spread of explosions
when the barriers are hung from the roof of underground tunnels.
• MSHA should be forced to conduct more-open investigations of major accidents, instead of
interviewing witnesses behind closed doors as the agency has been doing for months on UBB.
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“We need to have full exposure to the public. We need to have
public hearings and public investigations.”
• The industry should institute continuous monitoring of
methane gas and begin more comprehensive and real-time
sampling for coal dust, allowing operators and regulators to
have more up-to-date information to react when problems first
arise.
Dave Chirdon, official of the Mine Safety and Health
Administration, pridefully pointed out that “there has never
been an accident in the mines that involved an MSHA-approved
piece of equipment.”
Chirdon’s concern is that US coal mine operators have fallen
short of meeting a five-year-old congressional mandate to
equip workers by June, 2011, with high-tech communications
and tracking systems. The said figures show 64 percent of
more than 500 underground coal mines don’t have the required
equipment. The required upgrade is supposed to keep nearconstant track of miners and enable them to communicate with
the surface even after an explosion.
Mines that miss the June 15 deadline face unspecified
enforcement action, MSHA spokeswoman Amy Louviere said.
The mandate was imposed after the January 2006 deaths of
12 miners trapped at West Virginia’s Sago Mine following an
explosion. Rescuers couldn’t contact them, nor did they know
where to look for them.
Chirdon added that 529 underground coal mines have
submitted plans for these systems that MSHA has approved.
About half of the plans involve the latest wireless and wired
technologies. The other half relies on leaky-feeder technology,
which links hand-held radios through cables.
Regulators are considering 53 proposals to improve plans
by tapping through-the-earth communication technology and
other emerging methods, the inspector said. Besides gear that
can survive accidents, manufacturers are developing systems
that can keep up with miners and machinery on the move,
Chirdon explained. Some are adding components that can
warn miners about gas and coal-dust levels, and when they
are in danger of colliding with equipment.
MSHA numbers show a 192 out of the 529 mines lacked a full
set of equipment as of February 2011.
UMW President Cecil Roberts and Patriot Coal CEO Richard
Whiting agreed that “we should have a whole year with zero
fatalities.”
Whiting said that, “we’re not only after zero fatalities. We’re
after zero incidents. We believe that all workplace incidents are
preventable.” He added that he worries about rushing to pass
new laws and regulations in the wake of major mining disasters
“when there are painfully fresh memories” of the deaths. Quick
actions that aren’t thought through can sometimes have
‘unintended consequences.’”
“Innovation is the key to a major breakthrough in mine safety,”
McAteer said. “We know that we can make mining safer for
everyone involved, and we are bound and determined to do
this.”
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BUCYRUS ACHIEVES RARE SAFETY FEAT
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Bucyrus America Inc., Houston, PA, an
equipment manufacturer, has achieved 1
million hours worked without a lost-time
injury. The last injury at the facility was
on February 5, 2010.
Bucyrus credited the manufacturing and
operations crew for focusing on safety
and realizing that safety is a top-down
and bottom endeavor.
“Employees have gone from accepting
unacceptable injuries to world-class
performance in a few years,” a company
spokesman said. “The challenge now is
to sustain the progress we have made
to date. ‘”That can be done the same
way it comes to achieve this most recent
record.
“We must have safety evolve in each of
us until we no longer see it as separate to
how we do our jobs and live our lives, but
as an inseparable and vital component.”
PEABODY’S TWENTYMILE MINE
EARNS SAFETY HONORS
Peabody Energy’s Twentymile Mine in
Colorado has earned the Top Safety
Innovation Award from the Colorado
Mining Association for a device that
makes moving longwall equipment safer
and more efficient at the underground
mine.
The award is given annually to recognize
an innovation that leads to improved
safety performance of Colorado miners.
With a brief investment of materials
and time, the Twentymile longwall crew
invented and assembled a staple-lock
tool that uses hydraulics to remove
portions of each longwall panel,
minimizing incident risk.
“The leadership of the crew at Twentymile
reflects how teams across Peabody
collaborate to refine best practices,
create standard processes and share
Twentymile Mine Technical
Safety
Engineer
Bob
Johnson was recognized
with the Lifetime Safety Award, while
Career Safety Achievement Award
honors went to Engineer Kevin Copeland
and Operator Lance McLaughlin. The
Lifetime Safety Achievement is awarded
when merited.
The Career Safety
Achievement Award is given annually
to miners who have gone above and
beyond by contributing new ideas,
innovations and emergency responses
along with operating free of a reportable
incident during their careers.
A dozen Twentymile miners earned
individual Safety Awards, each marking
30 years of operating injury-free.
Twentymile also received a nomination
for the association’s Large Underground
Coal Mine – Excellence in Safety Award
marking its improved safety performance.
Twentymile achieved a 1.12 incident
rate that is nearly 62 percent better than
peers, compared to MSHA’s preliminary
2010 data showing an industry
average of 5.65 for underground peers.
Twentymile’s 2010 safety performance
also reflects a 60 percent year-over-year
improvement. These strong results cap
record global safety results for Peabody.
In 2010 Peabody improved its global
safety incident rate more than 6 percent
– an extension of the company’s record
improvement each year for the past
three years. Peabody also operated the
safest US large surface mine, earning
the prestigious Sentinels of Safety Award
from the US Department of Labor, an
honor the company has earned three of
the past seven years.
Twentymile is located near Hayden, CO,
and shipped approximately 7.2 million
tons of coal in 2010.
KY EXCEL MINE #3 MARKS ONE YEAR
FREE OF LOST-TIME ACCIDENTS
Alliance Resource Partners’ Excel
Mining subsidiary in Kentucky, Mine
No. 3, marked one year free of losttime accidents.
REPRESENTING:
Excel operates Mine No. 3 mine
within the MC Mining complex in
Pike County, KY. The feat was
accomplished while working
900,000 man-hours without a
single incident that resulted in
lost time.
The mine employs 230 workers,
and produces and sells about 1.5
million tons of steam coal a year.
ARLP
acknowledged
the
accomplishment
with
an
Excellence in Safety celebration,
honoring the mine’s crew with a
commendation award.
“The Excel team exemplifies our
shared commitment to safety,
and we are proud to recognize
the Excel team for this important
and significant achievement,”
said
company
operations
vice president Kenny Murray.
“These dedicated miners have
championed the safety process
and have developed a culture of
safety in the workplace.”
The MC Mining complex uses
room and pillar extraction to
produce low-sulfur coal.
Alliance
operates
nine
underground mining complexes
in Illinois Indiana, Kentucky,
Maryland and West Virginia,
and owns an active coal-leading
terminal on the Ohio River at
Mount Vernon, IN.
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Two
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mines,
two surface operations and one
preparation facility in Consol Energy’s
West Virginia operations have been
recognized for safety achievements with
the Joseph A. Holmes Safety Awards.
The Shoemaker operation in Marshall
County and the Blacksville No. 2 mine
in Wana were both honored for work
underground in 2010.
Remaining
recipients were the Fola and Peg
Fork surface mines in Bickmore and
Naugatuck, respectively, and the Peach
Orchard preparation plant in Bickmore.
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“The employees we have at the five
operations who earned the awards are
to be commended for the
personal commitment they
each bring to safety every
day. It is that commitment
to and focus on safety
which
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Crews will be presented with the awards
at the WV State Council of the Joseph
A. Holmes Safety Association 28th annual
meeting May 21.
ASSE OBSERVES 100 YEARS OF SAFETY
The American Society of Safety
Engineers is observing 100 years
of safety.
ASSE has more than
33,000 occupational safety, health and
environmental professional members
located worldwide and committed to
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protecting people, property and the
environment. The society was formed
in 1911 in New York City, following the
horrific New York City Triangle Shirtwaist
Factory fire, in which 146 women died.
The NY chapter hosted a commemorative
dinner in memory of the victims as part of
the 100th anniversary of the fire. ASSE’s
documentary on work safety the past
100 years titled “ASSE – Celebrating a
Century of Safety” starts with the Triangle
fire that can be viewed at www.asse.org/
assecentury of safety. Its free brochure,
the Triangle/ASSE history, is at www.
asse.org/newsroom.
RMCMI TO AWARD CONTRACTOR
SAFETY AWARD
The Rocky Mountain Coal Mining
Institute will recognize contractors
for their safety performance at its
107th Annual Meeting & Conference,
June 26-28, at Keystone, CO. RMCMI
is asking for nominations to be submitted
to Judy Colgan at jcolgan@rmcmi.
org no later than May 15. All mine
operators are encouraged to submit
at least one nomination form. RMCMI
is also accepting self-nominations by
contractors. Questions on the firm can
be answered by Jim Luther at James.
[email protected].
CONSOL ENERGY’S WILEY SURFACE
MINE EARNS SAFETY AWARD
CONSOL Energy’s Wiley Surface Mine
in Mingo County, WV, earned its third
consecutive R.E. Bailey Safety Award as
the company’s 50 employees achieved
a milestone in safety by working another
million hours without a lost-time accident.
The stellar safety record has its origins
25 years ago in December 1986 when
the last lost-time accident occurred at
Wiley. With the million hours achieved
March 24, the hours Wiley employees
had worked without a lost-time accident
totaled three million hours.
“One million hours is a milestone in
anyone’s book. Three million hours
is even more commendable, and a
reflection of the continuing commitment
to safety which our Wiley employees
clearly demonstrate,” said Jimmy Brock,
CONSOL Energy chief operating officer
– coal.
Seven members of the Wiley workforce
of 50 have been a part of the workforce
since 1986.
“No matter what the weather or
mining conditions, the attention Wiley
employees pay to safety is second to
none,” said Miller Creek Superintendent
Keith Bartley. “The work force at Wiley
demonstrates dedication to safety by
being observant and working safely
every day. It’s about focus. It’s about
communication.”
Wiley Surface Mine is part of the Miller
Creek Complex operated by CONSOL
Energy’s
CONSOL
of
Kentucky
subsidiary. In September 1991, the mine
marked its first million hours worked
without a lost-time accident. The second
million hours was recorded in 2001.
CONSOL Energy’s R.E. Bailey Safety
Award was established in 1977 to
recognize operations recording one
million hours without a lost-time
accident. The Wiley Surface mine is the
last CONSOL Energy mine to earn the
award, which has since been retired and
replaced by the J. Brett Harvey Safety
Award.
“This achievement by Wiley Surface
Mine employees is proof positive of their
attention to our core value of safety,”
said Jack Richardson, vice president
of Central Appalachia operations. “I
applaud their commitment to safety and
urge them to continue to stay focused on
the importance of making safety number
one each and every day.”
Wiley Surface Mine produces steam
coal. In calendar year 2010, the mine
produced 560,302 tons. The coal is
trucked to CONSOL Energy’s Miller
Creek Preparation Plant, where it is
processed and shipped to customers.
WESTMORELAND’S BEULAH MINE
WINS SAFETY AWARD
Westmoreland Coal Company, Colorado
Springs, CO, announces that Dakota
Westmoreland Corporation’s Beulah
Mine has received the Lignite Energy
Council’s Safety Excellence Award for
the mine or plant with the lowest incident
rate in the lignite industry. The Beulah
Mine had an exceptional safety record in
2010, completing the entire year without
any lost-time accidents. As of December
31, 2010, the Beulah Mine had worked
667 days without a lost-time accident
and continues to build onto that record
having worked 770 days without an
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also completed 2010 without an MSHA
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Dakota Westmoreland’s
accident rate of 0.00 compares to the US
surface mining industry average of 1.11
for 2010 as reported by MSHA.
The Beulah Mine is a 9,000-acre
surface mining complex located 75 miles
northwest of Bismarck, ND. Coal from the
mine supplies the fuel requirements for
the adjacent 427 MW Coyote Generating
Station and the two-unit 115 MW Heskett
Station, located 74 miles away. The mine
produces approximately 3.0 million tons
of lignite a year.
“The lignite users and producers in this
region believe that the efficient production
of a low-cost, reliable energy source
cannot be achieved without serious
attention to the health and safety of their
employees,” said John Dwyer, president
of the Lignite Energy Council.
PEABODY’S GATEWAY MINE WINS
ILLINOIS SAFETY AWARD
Peabody Energy’s Gateway Mine has
been awarded the 2010 Illinois Best Injury
Frequency Rate Award, recognizing the
mine as the state’s safest mid-sized
operation.
The Illinois Mining Institute also
recognized Gateway Mine Operations
Manger Cliff Walker and Operations
Associate Dan McLean with 2010 Awards
of Excellence.
“Our safety vision is to operate safe
workplaces that are incident-free,” said
Eric Ford, Peabody’s executive vice
president and chief operating officer.
“Congratulations to the leadership and
the workforce at Gateway Mine for
bringing this vision to life as evidenced by
their safety and operations excellence.”
Gateway received the honor from the
Illinois Department of Natural Resources
Office of Mines and Minerals for having
the best incident rate for underground
operations in the division two category,
mines with less than 500,000 work
hours. In 2009, the mine achieved a
1.05 incidence rate per 200,000 hours
worked, an almost six-fold improvement
over the 2009 industry average of 6.02.
The mine also set a record as the safest
underground operation in Peabody
history.
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Located in Randolph County near
Coulterville, IL, Gateway shipped
approximately 3.2 million tons of coal in
2009. Worldwide, Peabody has earned
more than two dozen awards for safety,
financial leadership, stewardship and
good neighbor practices over the past
two years.
TAIYUAN SHELTER TEST SUCCESSFUL
Taiyuan - A team of 80 coal miners and
support staff members finished a 48hour stay inside an underground refuge
chamber in a coal mine in North China’s
Shanxi province recently, marking
success for the country’s first manned
test of a refuge chamber for underground
coal mines.
A team of 80 coal miners and support staff
members stayed inside an underground
refuge chamber in a coal mine in North
China’s Shanxi province to test its safety.
“The chamber is a bit crowded, but my coworkers and I didn’t feel much discomfort
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during our two-day stay,” Shen Haisheng,
a 29-year-old miner who participated in
the test.
“The use of refuge shelters is really
reassuring to me and my families, since it
makes us miners better able to survive a
mine accident,” he said.
The refuge chamber was tested in the
Changcun Coalmine, which belongs
to the State-owned Lu’an Group in
Changzhi city, Shanxi province, and is
the most advanced coal mine refuge in
China, said Jin Longzhe, professor from
the civil and environment engineering
school of the University of Science and
Technology Beijing.
“The test turned out to be very successful,
which provided us with many useful data
for further improvement,” said Jin, who,
under a national program of technical
research, has played a lead role since
2006 in developing the chamber and
related refuge structures.
The test chamber is equipped with
devices that provide oxygen, electricity
and telecommunications and has a
permanent borehole that allows air,
fresh water and food to be lowered down
from above ground. The shelter, which
measures 39 meters by 3.5 meters by
3.05 meters, is large enough to keep up
to 100 miners alive for 96 hours after a
coal mine disaster, he said.
Built in May 2010, the refuge system
was introduced as a test project at the
Changcun Coalmine, which is the first
mine in China to have such a structure.
Besides the chamber, the mine is also
equipped with 16 underground escape
capsules. Each capsule can be moved
by a track to the chamber and bears a
supply of oxygen, an air purifier and an
air conditioner.
It can keep up to 12 miners alive for
96 hours, said Zheng Xiangju, deputy
director of the mine’s chief engineer
office.
To develop and install the underground
refuge shelters, the Lu’an Group spent
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FLEXCO INTRODUCES CONVEYOR AUDIT PROGRAM
“We went through lots of problems
because (China) offered no precedent
to follow,” he said. “The country did not
have a national standard for building such
shelters. But the most difficult phase has
passed.”
Emergency shelters for coal mines have
attracted much public attention since
October 2010, when 33 Chilean miners
were pulled to safety after being trapped
underground for 69 days. An underground
emergency shelter was believed to have
been essential in saving their lives.
By 2015, all mines in China are to
undergo safety improvements meant to
make it easier to monitor for dangerous
conditions and respond to emergencies,
Zhao Tiechui, head of the State
Administration of Coal Mine Safety, said
in May 2010.
Safety chambers will help ensure that
workers caught in a disaster have shelter,
oxygen and clean water, he said.
Flexco recently introduced the Conveyor Audit Program, designed to help operations evaluate the performance of their conveyor systems. The program
allows them to proactively address belt conveyor concerns before they lead to
costly repairs and unscheduled downtime.
At the encouragement of the country’s
coal mine safety watchdog, tests
of emergency shelters began to be
conducted in five State-owned coal
mines in the coal-rich Shanxi province in
2010.
As part of this program, Flexco field specialists will visit the operation and evaluate the entire conveyor system. These specialists are knowledgeable experts
with strong technical skills and years of hands-on training with conveyor systems and components. Focusing on issues such as spillage, carryback, and
mistracking, the specialists will record their findings and return to the operation
with a complete presentation on the system, identifying immediate needs, and
suggested future fixes.
In January, the central government
released a national standard to govern
the construction and management of
the shelters and issued a mandatory
provision requiring all mines to contain
underground escape capsules and other
safety improvements by 2013.
“Owners and operators that are around the conveyors every day may not notice
the slight changes in the system, while a fresh set of eyes can,” said Rich Gilman, global service program manager for Flexco. “Instead of waiting for something to go wrong, they can address the issues proactively, saving time and
money in unscheduled downtime.”
Chinese mines are prone to being
damaged by gas blasts, flooding and
other disasters, largely because 95
percent of them are underground, Xinhua
reported.
The emergency shelters are to serve as
the last safeguard for miners in all kinds
of mine disasters and have been widely
used in the United States, Canada, South
Africa and other countries, according to
professor Jin.
“The widespread use of the refuges will
greatly improve the safety of China’s coal
mines,” he said. Source: China Daily
Audits are recommended at least once a year, are conducted at no charge to
the operation, and can be scheduled through a Flexco distributor or their local
territory manager.
“At Flexco, we feel that it is a good rule of thumb to inspect and perform maintenance on all of your conveyor system components as part of an overall maintenance plan. An audit is a good start,” Gilman said. “We’ve had people come
back after an audit to tell us that simply reducing the amount of time spent
cleaning up carryback materials is a cost savings in itself.”
Flexco specialists will also perform separate cleaner audits, lagging audits, and
roller audits by request. For more information on the Flexco Conveyor Audit
Program, or to schedule your audit, contact a Flexco distributor or your local
territory manager.
For more information on Flexco products, programs, and services, or to find a
distributor in your area, log on to www.flexco.com.
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The Right Thing to Do
Energy developer Dean Alford says America shouldn’t be afraid
of coal. To prove his point, the Atlanta native is developing
Georgia’s first new coal power plant in more than 20 years.
T
here are many reasons coal is the foundation of our nation’s
energy infrastructure and those reasons remain as relevant
today as they have ever been. Providing consumers with
affordable electric power, ensuring system reliability and
enhancing the nation’s energy security all rank high on the list
of benefits coal power provides. For Dean Alford, president
and CEO of Allied Energy Services in Atlanta, those benefits,
along with the fact that coal is America’s most important and
abundant energy resource, mean building a coal plant is the
right thing to do.
While the heads of our nation’s largest utilities may quietly acknowledge the
importance of their coal fleets as the backbone of their generation portfolios,
today it is a rare individual who refuses to bow to the politics of the moment
and pretend that coal is not in fact as important to the future of the United
States as it has been to its past. But Dean Alford believes that is very much
the case.
Dean Alford
President and CEO of
Allied Energy Services
By Michael Mullet
Since 2007, Alford, a Georgia Tech graduate and electrical engineer by
training, has been leading the effort to develop Plant Washington, a nominal
850 MW plant that will be the first new coal-fired electric generator in the
state of Georgia in more than 20 years. His perseverance – fueled largely
by the conviction that this plant is, indeed, the right project at the right time
– has taken it further than many other proposed coal plants that have been
abandoned in the face of opposition and regulatory burdens.
“Opponents have tried again and again to paint this as some sort of dirty
old coal plant that will use outdated technology and spew pollution all over
the state, but that’s simply not true,” says Alford. “One reason I think Plant
Washington will succeed is that it will be one of the cleanest coal plants in
the nation, and more important, it is critical to the state of Georgia. The facts
will ultimately prevail.”
Power for Georgians, by Georgians
Plans for Plant Washington were announced in January 2008, when
developers filed applications with the Georgia Environmental Protection
Division, the state’s permitting authority. The power plant, which is expected
to cost between $2.1 and $2.4 billion, is being backed by a coalition of Georgia
electric membership corporations (EMCs) called POWER4Georgians who
will have first dibs on the electricity the plant produces for their nearly 400,000
members in the state. The plant will be developed on a 1,600 acre parcel
just north of Sandersville, Georgia, midway between Augusta and Macon, in
Washington County.
While electric co-ops in the state receive a majority of their power from
Oglethorpe Power Corporation, a power supply cooperative established to
serve the state’s EMCs, they must make up the balance by purchasing on
the power market – a gap Plant Washington will help to fill.
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“For us, Plant Washington is a way to
have a little more direct control over the
cost of the generation output, and also
will replace a large power contract that
is expiring in the next few years,” says
Frank Askew, president of Washington
EMC, one of the co-ops participating in
POWER4Georgians. “We want to have
a diverse and reliable generation mix but
also cost certainty, and Plant Washington
will help us achieve those objectives.”
Although those involved understood
that a coal plant also would generate
its share of controversy and opposition,
POWER4Georgians has the advantage
of being local. Comprised initially of 10
EMCs that serve a combined 700,000
members in Georgia, Plant Washington
was unveiled as providing affordable
power for Georgians, by Georgians – an
important contrast to a merchant plant
being developed amid much opposition
in southern Georgia.
However, the regulatory and political
uncertainty proved too much for some
of the EMCs involved, and in May
2009 four of the co-ops withdrew from
the project, citing the potential cost of
carbon regulation as a concern. Alford
understands those decisions but remains
steadfast in his view of the bigger picture.
“The fact is, the market will change and
the politics will change. You can’t guess
what will happen a year from now, but
you can’t stop every time the political
wind shifts,” he observes. “Just a year
ago biomass was the darling, especially
here in Georgia where we have so many
trees, but that is turning out to be more
complicated than many people thought.
Participating in Plant Washington may
seem like a courageous decision for
these EMCs, but really it is a very shrewd
decision.”
Not your father’s coal plant
Another reason Plant Washington seems
likely to become a reality is that the plant
will be one of the cleanest coal plants
ever developed, using a combination of
proven emissions control technologies
that function well individually and in
tandem. In fact, approximately a third of
the facility’s $2.1 to $2.4 billion price tag
represents the cost of emissions control
systems that are being engineered into
the combustion and post-combustion
processes.
While opponents of coal power, most
notably the Sierra Club, have purposely
chosen to define ‘clean coal’ as carbon
capture and sequestration – only to note
that such technology is not commercially
viable – the Code of Federal Regulations
provides a more realistic definition.
According to CFR Title 40, section
52.21, clean coal technology means
“any technology…which will achieve
significant reductions in air emissions
of sulfur dioxide or oxides of nitrogen
associated with the utilization of coal in
the generation of electricity…”
By that definition, Plant Washington
would be considered a clean coal plant.
Built around a supercritical pulverized
coal boiler, the plant will use over-fire
air ports and low NOx burners, and will
burn either a blend of Illinois Basin coal
and Powder River Basin coal, or all
PRB coal. On the back end the plant will
employ selective catalytic reduction, wet
scrubbers with sorbent injection and a
fabric filter baghouse.
With such state-of-the-art technologies,
Plant Washington’s permitted emissions
levels can be – and will be – exceptionally
low, among the lowest in the U.S. for an
850 MW generator. The plant’s permitted
mercury emissions will be approximately
60 pounds per year, while emissions of
NOx and SO2 will represent less than four
percent and two percent, respectively,
of statewide emissions of those
compounds under Clean Air Transport
Rule guidelines.
“Comparing Plant Washington to a coal
plant that came online in the 1960s, or
even the 1980s, is like comparing the
gas mileage and tailpipe emissions of a
car built today with a car manufactured
two or three decades ago; there is no
comparison,” says Alford. “What has
been difficult is understanding why
people are so afraid of acknowledging
how little impact this plant is really going
to have.”
A strong ground game
It’s no secret that developing a coal plant
today is a process fraught with potential
landmines. The on-again off-again nature
of climate legislation in Congress makes
investors nervous while state regulators
are likely to give a proposed coal plant
much more scrutiny than in the past. And
in addition to national groups such as the
Sierra Club, local grass-roots and NIMBY
groups spring up to oppose your plant
specifically. None of this surprised Alford.
“A project of this consequence is always
going to draw critics, and I will defend
anyone’s right to object, oppose and
express their concerns – I don’t take
it personally,” he says. “I realize there
are going to be people who have their
opinions and I am not going to change
their minds. But I will always be willing
to tell our story to anyone who wants to
listen.”
Alford began to lay the groundwork
for the battles he knew the plant would
generate even before submitting the
permit applications, meeting with leaders
of environmental and energy committees
in the Georgia state legislature to provide
relevant background. He also persuaded
POWER4Georgians to hire a public
relations firm experienced in working with
clients trying to develop large and often
controversial projects.
“I’ve been asked if people who oppose
this project are ignorant, and my
answer is absolutely not,” he says.
“The fact is, many opponents are very
intelligent, passionate and educated, but
unfortunately they have been educated
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Dean Alford continued
in things that are simply wrong. So we
need to be able to communicate the facts
effectively across multiple channels and
to multiple audiences.”
Alford and POWER4Georgians have
also
maintained
a
near-constant
presence in Washington County, where
the plant will be developed. In addition to
the permit hearings, which were held at
a local college and at which both Alford
and state regulators have presented
information, POWER4Georgians has
hosted community information meetings,
a job fair and public question and answer
sessions.
Alford also never turns down an invitation
to speak to or meet with any group that
asks, including civic organizations,
student groups and, more recently,
members of a local church whose
property is adjacent to the plant site. He
has made a standing offer to meet with
any environmental group that wants to
discuss Plant Washington, and has met
with those and other opposition groups
on numerous occasions.
“My feeling has always been, ‘You and
I may not agree, but that doesn’t mean
we can’t sit down and talk about it in a
civil way.’ This is a very big project and
people need to feel comfortable with
it,” says Alford, who also has spent
countless evenings meeting with local
residents in their homes to address their
concerns. “People will not trust you if
they don’t think you are being forthright
and transparent, so it is essential to
communicate constantly and with
consistent information.”
Moving forward
For a project that is indeed very big –
and certainly more controversial than
it would have been only a few decades
ago – Plant Washington is moving along
almost as expected. After submitting an
initial permit application to the Georgia
Environmental Protection Division in
early 2008, state regulators issued draft
permits for the plant in August 2009.
Following a public hearing and public
comment period, engineers (MACTEC
is the lead engineering firm on Plant
Washington) spent months addressing
various items in the draft permits and
final permits were issued in April 2010.
“The permitting process is arduous,
but we welcomed the opportunity to
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make sure our permits are top-notch,”
says Alford. “While some of the public
comments were in general opposition
to the plant, there also were some that
raised important issues which allowed us
to make our permits even stronger.”
As was almost certain to happen, a local
“environmental” law firm filed appeals of
Plant Washington’s air and water permits,
and hearings before an administrative
law judge took place in Atlanta last
fall. The law firm of King & Spalding
has represented POWER4Georgians
throughout the permitting process.
The issues petitioners raised with the
water permits – having to do with interbasin water transfers and the location
of discharge monitors – were easily
addressed and regulators re-issued the
plant’s final water permits in February
2011. Issues raised about the air permit
are also being addressed with state
regulators and Alford expects it to be reissued this summer.
“Nobody likes to have these sorts of
delays, but we expected them and had
planned for them both in terms of time
and budget,” he says. “I see this as
analogous to a football game; we’re in
the fourth quarter and we’ve gotten a
delay of game penalty. It’s slowed us
down a little bit but we are continuing to
move the ball forward.”
The big picture
Inasmuch as Alford remains focused
on the goal line with Plant Washington,
he is also a keen observer of an even
larger picture – a national energy policy,
or more specifically a lack thereof, that
addresses national security, energy
security, economic viability, and the
availability of affordable, reliable energy
in a comprehensive and thoughtful
manner.
“People ask me all the time, ‘What
about solar, wind, biomass or other
alternatives?’ and my answer is always,
‘Yes!’” he says, noting that Allied Energy
Services also is currently involved in
developing solar, biomass and natural
gas energy facilities. “The fact is, we need
it all – coal, nuclear, hydro, renewables;
we have got to work to develop all our
energy resources. People don’t realize
how much capacity is going to come
offline in the next 20 to 30 years because
it is old. People don’t realize how little
excess capacity there is in our power
system.”
Alford also believes that coal will play as
important, if not more important, role in
our future as it has in our past – and that
with enough foresight and leadership,
we can use coal not only to power our
nation, but to help make the air cleaner.
“How much cleaner would our air be if
we replaced all the coal plants over 30
years old with new clean plants like Plant
Washington?” he asks. And, “Since nonattainment is really a vehicle emissions
issue, what if we built more coal plants
and made all our cars electric?”
The other question Alford asks is, “Why
have we become afraid of coal?”
“The reason why both the Democrats
and the Republicans have failed on the
energy issue is that it takes courage to
stand up and say, ‘This is what’s in the
best interest of our country,’” he says.
“While we hesitate and dance around,
there are other countries ready to blow
past us – and we are by no means going to
continue to be an economic powerhouse
if we don’t address the energy issue.”
Without question, Alford believes the
best interest of our country is served with
an ‘all of the above’ strategy – a balanced
and diverse national energy portfolio
that includes all of our country’s energy
resources, policies that foster investment
in energy technology and an efficient
regulatory framework that protects the
environment while allowing energy
development to go forward without
endless appeals and delays. Coal should
be a critical component of this strategy.
“We can’t omit any of our domestic
energy resources from a comprehensive
national energy policy – it’s too big a price
to pay,” Alford says. “More importantly,
you can’t ever lose sight of the fact that
there are people out there going about
their business every day trusting you
to keep their electricity affordable and
reliable. That’s the reason this coal plant
is the right thing for us to be doing, now
and for the future.”
To read more about Plant Washington
and POWER4Georgians,
visit www.power4georgians.com.
Michael Mullet is a professional writer with
Cookerly Public Relations in Atlanta.
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news 2011
The first new coal-fired power plant
to start up in West Virginia in 18
years was to start burning coal in
April.
The 695-megawatt Longview
Power Plant, north of Morgantown, WV,
is the first since the 80-megawatt Grant
Town power plant went on line in 1993.
Longview’s power will be inexpensive
to produce compared with most other
coal-fired plants for two reasons: One
is that it’s more efficient than most – an
anticipated 8,700 British thermal units
per kilowatt-hour, or heat-units in per
electricity – units out, compared with a
national coal-fired fleet average of about
10,600. Secondly, Longview’s power
will be inexpensive because the plant’s
coal will come from an adjacent Mepco
mine, so its transport costs will be low
compared with a plant that has to get its
coal by rail, barge or truck. Longview is
expected to burn about 2 million tons of
coal per year. The plant will employ 97
people.
A
coal-to-liquids
plant
under
construction near Medicine Bow,
Casper, WY, has a buyer for the
carbon dioxide the plant will produce
when it goes into operation. Denbury
Resources, through wholly owned
subsidiary Denbury Onshore, will buy
the carbon dioxide from the plant’s
owner, Medicine Bow Fuel and Power,
a wholly-owned subsidiary of Houstonbased DKRW Advanced Fuels. Denbury
will use the carbon dioxide for enhanced
oil recovery, a method in which carbon
dioxide – a greenhouse gas – is pumped
underground into under-producing oil
fields, forcing out additional oil. The plant
is slated to produce up to 21,000 barrels
of gasoline and other fuels per day from
the processing of coal. Completion of the
plant is expected in 2014.
Federal land in Wyoming holding
some 750 million tons of coal will soon
be leased to mining companies, the
US Interior Department has announced.
The leases will generate $13.4 billion to
$21.3 billion, and cover 7,400 acres in
Wyoming’s Powder River Basin. The
tracts are the first of more than a dozen
coal leases in the region that are to be
auctioned off in the next three years,
the department said. More than 416
million tons of coal were shipped from
the Powder River Basin in 2009, equal to
about 40 percent of the nation’s annual
coal consumption of one billion tons.
Carbonite Corporation of Virginia,
Norton, VA, expects to start producing
carbonite on a commercial scale
soon. Carbonite is a patented interim
step between coal and coke. The $20
million plant, funded largely by local coal
industry investors with the help of a $1.5
million grant from the Virginia Tobacco
Commission, is scheduled to begin
construction this year and will produce
both carbonite and coke.
The Interstate Mining Compact
Commission (IMCC) has announced
the recipients of its annual national
reclamation awards.
The Kenes C.
Bowling National Mine Reclamation
Awards are presented each year
to mining operations in the coal
and noncoal categories that have
demonstrated excellence in reclamation,
based on achievement in five categories:
compliance;
contemporaneous
reclamation; drainage control; bond
release (or reclamation success); and
innovativeness. The 2011 winner in the
coal category is Patriot Coal Company,
LP, Patriot Surface Mine, located near
Henderson County, Henderson, KY. A
notable feature of the reclamation work
completed by Patriot is the amount of
prime farmland that has been restored
on the permit. Of the 841.3 prime
farmland acres, around 63 acres have
been completely reclaimed and all bonds
released. A highlighted feature of the
area is a 32-acre final pit impoundment
that Patriot Coal reclaimed from the final
pit left behind by one of the previous
permit holders that went bankrupt. A large
portion of this area is currently slated to
become a part of the Henderson County
Park System. Several unique features
are slated to be constructed by the county
in association with the park. Receiving
recognition for honorable mention in the
coal category is Vigo Coal Operating Co.,
Inc., Friendship Mine, located in Wabash
County in Mount Carmel, IL.
Xinergy and its South Fork Coal
subsidiary have finished a mineral
exploration,
development
and
production review for the Greenbrier
metallurgical property in West Virginia
and have filed a National Instrument
43-101 report. The review reflected
a measured and indicated mineral
resource of about 32.4 million tons, of
which 25.4Mt are proven and probable
mineral reserve tons in seven seams.
Estimated production commencement is
set for October 1, 2011, at an average of
10,000 tons a month for 2011. In 2012,
that total will increase to a run rate of
500,000 tons per year.
UK’s Atlantic Coal has obtained
an option to purchase a 158-acre
anthracite mining property in Luzerne
County, PA. The asset could contain a
possible 12 million tons of colliery spoil
with about 10-15 percent recoverablesized coal and more than 1 Mt of coal silt
on the surface. It can also use open cast
mining methods to obtain an estimated
2.5Mt of subsurface coal reserves.
American Electric Power, Columbus,
OH, named one of the top 50
companies for executive women by
the National Association for Female
Executives.
The list recognizes
organizations programs and policies that
support women’s advancement and who
have significant female representation
in senior management and on boards of
directors.
Consol Energy Inc. plans to build a
$200 million advance water treatment
plant, using reverse osmosis, near
Mannington, WV, to remove high levels of
chloride in the wastewater. The company
also agreed to pay a $5.5 million civil
penalty for Clean Water Act violations at
six of its mines in West Virginia. When
completed, the plant would be the largest
such water treatment plant in Appalachia,
substantially reducing chloride and other
salts in mining waters, discharged to
streams.
A team led by West Virginia University
Engineer Elliot Kennel will be
conducting experiments to convert
biomass and coal to transportation
fuel under a project funded by the
US Department of Energy and using
equipment donated by the Lu’an Group,
a Chinese energy business enterprise.
The $304,000 project is one of several
under a recent $1.2 million award to the
WVU US-China Energy Center from the
US Dept of Energy Office of Fossil Energy
to study the long term environmental and
economic impacts of coal liquefaction in
China. The experiment will combine a
pyrolysis reaction with a Fischer-Tropsch
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reaction to produce liquid transportation
fuels. By combining the two processes
and using both coal and biomass as
the feedstock, hybrid processes can be
cleaner and still affordable, both of which
are important to the US DOE and its
counterparts in China.
Arch
Environmental
Equipment,
Inc., Paducah, KY, announces an
agreement with Dean Rosendall to
become the exclusive manufacturer
and distributor of the Dean Energy
Harvester (DEH), a process energy
recycler invented and designed to
collect, sort, and distribute the process
energy normally lost when conveying raw
material on bulk handling conveyor belts.
The reclaimed energy is used for lighting,
safety and security cameras, charging
stations, and auxiliary equipment for
industries that include aggregate,
concrete, cement, and forestry, among
others, that use conveyors to transport
tons of raw materials.
3M, St. Paul, MN, has pledged $2.5
million to support relief efforts in Japan
following the March 11 earthquake and
tsunami. Support includes a $500,000 in
employee and retirees matching grants
and up to $2 million in product donations
as needs are identified. Grants will be
made to the American Red Cross and
US Fund for UNICEF. Product donations
will likely include respiratory protection
products, medical and cleaning supplies.
HILO-Yale
Industrial
Trucks,
Greenville, NC, has acquired Viccaro
Equipment, a Hyster lift truck dealer.
Named as an authorized Hyster
dealer HILO updated its name to HILO
Material Handling Group to reflect its
new dual-dealer status. HILO will take
over Hauppauge, NY, based Viccaro
territories, assets, liabilities and the
majority of personnel.
The existing
Viccaro facility will be re-branded with
the HILO name and used for storage
purposes.
Using fly ash as a coat could extend
the life of roads and bridges, thereby
saving billions of dollars of taxpayers’
money, the American Chemical Society
reports. ACS says that a new coating
material for concrete made from fly ash
is hundreds of times more durable than
existing coatings and costs only half as
much. In tests, the fly ash-based coating
protected concrete from deterioration
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when it was exposed to the acids present
in air pollution that were 100,000 times
more concentrated than typical outdoor
levels in the environment. The coated
concrete remained strong and intact for
more than a year of observation while
ordinary concrete often began to crumble
within days.
Rexnord
Industries,
Milwaukee,
WI, has opened a new 29,000 sq. ft.
gearbox repair and remanufacturing
facility in Salt Lake City, UT, to serve
customers in area industries, including
mining, coal, cement, aggregates and
power generation. The facility is part of
Rexnord’s Falk RENEW Prager product
services, which repairs or rebuilds
gearboxes of all makes, brands and
sizes.
Mi-T-M Corporation, Peosta, IA, has
appointed Essex Silver Line Sales
West as its new Rental Rep Group in
the Northwest, covering Alaska, Idaho,
Montana, Oregon and Washington.
Essex Silver represents many brands in
the rental industry, including Billy Goat,
National Surface Prep Equipment, Lug
All Corporation, Subaru Power Products
and Warner Tool. They also represent a
variety of rental party products.
Research companies forecast that, as
a direct result of the tsunami incident
in Japan and the nuclear crisis, some
$200 billion in investment will be shifted
from nuclear energy to other areas in
the next five years. Investment in coalfired boilers will rise by $100 billion and
longer term, the biggest shift will be from
nuclear to coal.
Walter Energy, Birmingham, AL, has
completed its $3.2 billion acquisition
of Canada’s Western Coal.
The
newly combined company is a North
American and global steelmaking coal
giant, the top publicly traded pure-play
metallurgical coal producer in the world
with access to the Pacific and Atlantic
seaborne markets. In total, the producer
now owns 385 million tons of reserves,
20Mt or more of which it expects to mine
annually by 2012.
Progress Energy Carolinas will shut
its 170 MW W.H. Weatherspoon coalfired plant near Lumberton, NC, this fall,
six years ahead of the original schedule,
as a result of EPA regulations. The three
units will be shut after Progress brings its
new 600 MW gas-fired plant in Richmond
County, NC, on line this June.
Dominion Virginia Power plans
to convert three of its coal-fired
power plants to renewable biomass.
Conversion of its power stations in
Altavista, Hopewell and Southampton
County would lead to 150MW of
renewable energy. If approved, Dominion
could begin burning biomass in 2013.
The fuel switch to mostly waste wood left
from timbering operations would reduce
emissions, as well as meet new federal
standards. The conversion would have
a total economic impact of more than
$350 million over the 30-year life of the
stations.
Lucas Technologies and Ciris Energy
have begun experimentation by
using microbe-friendly formula in gas
wells drilled into coal deposits years
ago. The companies are spiking the
wells with substances including calcium
magnesium, phosphate and glycerol,
which encourage the micro-organisms to
reproduce, feed and release the methane
gas. The aim is to get old and nearly
tapped-out coal bed methane wells to
double or perhaps triple gas production.
West Virginia is researching the
possibility of geothermal resources
to generate energy. State geologist
Michael Hohn and Brian Anderson,
an assistant professor of chemical
engineering at WVU, are leading the
charge to “mine” the state’s renewable
energy resources. Geothermal energy
in West Virginia is currently used for
small-scale heating systems, but only
at residential and commercial levels.
Geothermal laboratories found the
state’s geothermal generation potential
to be at 18,890 megawatts a 75 percent
rise from an earlier estimate by MIT. The
figure is more than West Virginia’s total
current generating capacity of 16,350
megawatts – almost all of which comes
from coal-fired plants.
The US coal industry remains
well short of meeting a 5-year old
congressional mandate to equip
underground mines with high-tech
communications and tracking gear.
MSHA says 192 of 529 coal mines
across the country had installed proper
equipment as of February, working out to
64 percent that still need the gear. Mines
have until June 15 to finish installing the
gear, or face enforcement action.
Alcoa, New York, NY, announces a
new pilot program, in collaboration
with Codexis, Inc. and CO2 Solutions
Inc., focused on carbon capture
technology designed to sequester
industrial carbon emissions, neutralizing
the material to create a commercially
viable product. The pilot program will
use an in-duct scrubber technology to
capture emissions. The collaboration is
intended to devise solutions that treat
and utilize a primary byproduct of the
aluminum manufacturing process known
as alkaline clay, or bauxite-residue. The
project will test a scrubbing process that
combines treated flue gas, enzymes and
alkaline clay to create a mineral-rich
neutralized product that could be used
for environmental reclamation projects.
Scientists and engineers from Alcoa
Technical Center in Pittsburgh will lead
the three-year project, after which the
project will proceed to the pilot-testing
phase.
Global Earth Energy Inc. (GLER),
Wilmington, NC, has entered into a
coal mining joint venture with Modern
Coal, LLC, Midland, TX. Modern is
expanding with GLER into the purchase
of coal property in Kentucky to fulfill
GLER’s contract with Advent Enterprises.
The contract by Advent is for 100,000
tons per shipload with a 3-month ramp
up period to achieve this goal. For each
12-month period, Modern and Global
Earth Energy will be able to deliver a total
of 800,000 tons of steam quality coal.
Fairmont Supply has opened a
new customer service center for
maintenance in Farmington, NM. The
14,000 square foot facility will open new
opportunities and growth in the area.
Western operations manager Gary
Dinkelman will oversee the new location.
Onsite team members include service
center manager LaVonne Howell, sales
supervisor Sherry Kindermecht and
warehouse leader Michael Dean. Van
Compagni is the sales and marketing
vice president.
The Energy & Environmental Research
Center (EERC) at the University of
North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, and
Fujian Longking Co., Ltd. of Longyan,
Fujian, China, are moving forward with
site selection and commercial design
of the EERC-developed advanced fine
particulate control technology to improve
global air quality. The next step is to
break ground and begin commissioning
the technology, expected later this year.
The EERC’s advanced hybrid technology
allows the removal of fine particles from
exhaust gases of coal-fired power plants,
incinerators, and mineral-processing
facilities and can also be used in the
pharmaceutical and chemical industries.
Xinergy’s Raven Crest subsidiary
has completed a technical review
report of its Brier Creek thermal
reserves in southern West Virginia,
with development set to begin in several
months.
The Boone and Kanawha
County reserve indicates that the
property contains about 59.4 million
tons of measured and indicated mineral
resources under its lease.
Of that
tonnage, 27Mt are proven and probable.
Initial production is slated for early 2012
with 50,000 tons per month expected.
Production will increase to 1.2Mt per
year once it is fully developed. Capital
expenditures will be about $40 million.
Colombia Clean Power & Fuels, an
exploration-stage coal mining and
clean energy technology company
with headquarters in California and
operations in Colombia, has acquired
three additional coal mining concessions
in the Boyaca district of Colombia,
which will expand the company’s total
concession coverage to 10,357 hectares.
Colombia Clean Power has completed
its legal and preliminary geologic
due diligence and will deploy drilling
exploration equipment immediately.
Covanta Holding Corporation has
sold its interests in the Quezon coalfired power facility in the Philippines to
Electricity Generating PCL (EGCO) for
$215 million. Covanta intends to sell its
equity interests in four fossil fuel facilities
in the Philippines, India and Bangladesh,
and focus on its core energy-from-waste
business. Covanta owns and operates
large-scale
energy-from-waste
and
renewable energy projects.
L&L Energy has a contract to acquire
a majority controlling interest (60
percent) of the DaPing coal mine in
Guizhou Province, China. The mine
currently
produces
approximately
150,000 tpa of high-quality, low-sulphur
metallurgical coal and is expanding
production capacity to 300,000 tpa by
2012.
Linc Energy Alaska, an Australian
company, will conduct test drilling on
coal leases in Alaska for an underground
coal gasification project. Linc Energy
acquired leases in Southcentral Alaska
in February 2010 and completed its first
exploration well in October. Linc Energy
recently acquired coal exploration
leases on 181,000 acres of state land in
Southcentral and Interior Alaska.
Coal exports from the US are expected
to jump 70 percent in 2011, because of
a supply squeeze in Asia-Pacific, while a
weak dollar has made US cargoes more
attractive, Xcoal Energy & Resources
reports. Total coal exports to Asia from
the US are expected to reach 20.1 million
tons this year. Despite taking more than
45 days to reach Asia, coal shipments
from the US have surged in Japan and
China over the past year because of the
emergence of price arbitrage.
Rhino Resource Partners LP has
resumed production at one of its
mines in Bolt, WV, after US mine
authorities were satisfied there was no
“imminent danger” at the mine. MSHA
had sent a letter earlier to Rhino saying
that “a potential pattern of violations
exists at the Eagle No. 1 mine” after
which the company had idled production.
Rhino successfully complied with the
MSHA citations and was allowed to
continue production.
Godwin Pumps, Bridgeport, NJ, has
opened a new branch office at 10661
Newkirk Street in Dallas, TX. Telephone
is 469/221-1444. The new facility
provides sales, rentals, and services of
the Dri-Prime, hydraulic submersible
Heidra and gasoline-powered WestPrime pumps. Also available are pipe,
hose and other accessories.
James River Coal Co., Richmond, VA,
has acquired International Resource
Partners (IRP) and its marketing
subsidiary Logan & Kanawha Coal for
$475 million. James River said the
acquisition expands its offerings of
metallurgical coal used to make steel
and increases access to export markets.
IRP was based in Charleston, WV, and
operated nine underground and surface
mines in southern West Virginia and
eastern Kentucky. The company’s mines
produced 1.9 million tons in 2010.
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CEO J. Brett Harvey of Consol Energy Inc. said that
investing in natural gas yields a quicker payback than
investing in coal, and with a regulatory push toward gasfueled power plants, that was the best way for Consol to
expand. Electricity generated by natural gas is the immediate
future, he said, but added that coal will make a comeback,
predicting the technology that taps carbon emissions will be
advanced enough to spur another wave of coal-fired power
plants in about five to seven years.
CONSOL Energy Inc., Pittsburgh, PA, and Veolia Water
Solutions & Technologies have agreed to design and
build a state-of-the-art Zero Liquid Waste Discharge
system to treat mine water, as well as operation and
maintenance of the facility. The system will be located near
Mannington, WV, and will treat mine water from CONSOL’s
Blacksville #2 Loveridge, and Robinson Run mines.
Hoosier Energy plans to build a plant in western Indiana
that would turn methane extracted from the region’s coal bed
into electricity. Hoosier would build the plant at its Merom
Generating Station about 20 miles south of Terre Haute. The
project would generate 13 megawatts of power, or enough to
power some 7,000 homes by burning the methane in engines
to generate electricity. The plant is expected to go online
in July 2012 and employ more than 100 workers. Hoosier
Energy supplies power to 17 rural electric cooperatives in
Indiana and one in Illinois.
EPA exaggerated the distribution and significance of
mayfly populations, and by doing so, exaggerated the
impact of mountaintop coal mining on ecosystems,
according to a report from the National Mining Association
(NMA). The report also asserts that EPA’s guidance
assumptions about the utility of measuring stream conductivity
as a proxy for dissolved solids in stream water are not
supported by field evidence. The report concludes that EPA’s
guidance, which was based to some extent on EPA studies
of the relationship between conductivity and aquatic insects,
is based on false assumptions. NMA has sued EPA over
the guidance, alleging “enhanced coordination” of permitting
approvals by EPA, the US Army Corps of Engineers and
Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation, and Enforcement.
The Tennessee Valley Authority has agreed to shutter
18 coal-fired units at three power plants and make major
improvements at 10 other sites, in a deal that’s being called
one of the largest pollution reductions agreements in the
nation’s history. TVA officials said other plant closings and
pollution control upgrades are under consideration. Plants
in Tennessee, Alabama and Kentucky are affected by the
plan, which will reduce the TVA coal fleet’s nitrogen oxide
emissions by 69 percent and sulfur dioxide emissions by 67
percent.
American Electric Power is seeking offers for the supply
of Illinois Basin coal to one or more of its generating
stations. AEP is seeking term delivery proposals for up to
3 million tons of Illinois Basin coal per year beginning Jan.
1, 2015 for a period of three or five years. AEP is open to
alternative pricing structures or other innovative, value-added
concepts. Coal Proposal Package(s) must be received by
AEPO no later than 5 pm, Monday, May 16, 2011. Submit by
e-mail to [email protected] or fax to 614/583-1619.
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www.asgco.com
ASGCO Named Business of the Month
ASGCO Manufacturing Inc. was the February 2011 “Business
of the Month.” The announcement was made by Allentown
Mayor Ed Pawlowski and Allentown Economic Development
Corporation Director of Enterprise Development, Lewis Edwards, at a news conference held at ASGCO’s facility.
The Business Recruitment and Retention Committee of Allentown Ahead selected ASGCO in recognition of the company’s
40 years as a manufacturing leader in Center City and for its
continued investment in the City of Allentown. ASGCO employs
some 120 engineers, technicians, welders, material handlers
and warehouse staff from an urban campus well integrated into
the fabric of the surrounding neighborhood. “ASGCO Mfg. Inc.
comprises people who care about their jobs, spend the attention to detail that is necessary and, above all, we are full of
talent and smart working Americans. We have quality people
and it takes that to manufacture quality products. Allentown has
been our home for over 40 years and we want to continue in
that tradition,” said Todd Gibbs, CEO of ASGCO.
ASGCO provides complete conveyor solutions to a variety of
industries, including power generation, aggregate mining, paper production, and shipping. Their manufactured products include belts, belt cleaners, conveyor belt accessories, and safety equipment. Additionally, ASGCO has a large service division
and provides engineering solutions to material conveyance.
ASGCO is a locally-owned and family-operated business with
a manufacturing history spanning to the 1970s. Founded by
Alfred Gibbs and Todd Gibbs in 1971, the company is currently
managed by Todd and his son, Aaron. Aaron was recently appointed President of ASGCO with Todd maintaining his role as
CEO.
The company has grown over the years by diversifying its products and expanding its service offerings. ASGCO takes care
of the customer with “great quality products and exceptional
service.” They can attribute their growth to making substantive
productivity improvements for their clients, large and small.
“It is our pleasure to recognize ASGCO as our Business of the
Month,” said Mayor Pawlowski. “It’s important to recognize
the valuable contributions made by businesses to make Allentown a better place to live, work and play. The ‘Business of
the Month’ designation is one way of bringing attention to their
outstanding efforts.”
Like other Allentown businesses, ASGCO is a great example
of the quality of urban manufacturers and their importance to
the local economy. ASGCO was chosen as an Allentown Business of the month for its commitment to Allentown and for being a model among urban manufacturers. Urban manufacturers
provide excellent jobs to city residents that can reach the plant
on foot or by bicycle, keep innovation native to America by continuing to produce things here, and are really the greenest of
companies by continuing to invest in existing buildings rather
than building anew. “Urban manufacturers, like ASGCO, are
the future of the Lehigh Valley and Pennsylvania’s economy,”
said Scott Unger, Executive Director of the Allentown Economic
Development Corporation.
ENERGY
news 2011
The Saskatchewan government has
agreed to a $1.2-billion project to
rebuild one of its coal power plants
so that its emissions can be pumped
underground.
The government says the project involves
retrofitting a unit at the Boundary Dam
power station near Estevan and will be
one of the first commercial-scale carbon
capture and storage facilities in the world.
The project has been talked about for
some time, but the provincial electrical
utility, SaskPower, had been waiting for
details on new emission regulations from
Ottawa.
Construction will begin immediately
operational by 2014, with the capacity to
produce 110 megawatts of power.
That represents three percent of
SaskPower’s overall generating capacity,
but the government says emissions will
be reduced by about one million tons a
year.
Xcel Energy plans to retire its last two
coal-fired power plants at the Black
Dog power plant in Burnsville, MN, and
replace them with natural gas-fired units.
The company adds that repowering the
plant with state-of-the-art natural gas
technology is more economical than
any of the alternatives available. The
company has filed an application with
state regulators. The new facility will
include two combustion turbines, two
heat recovery steam generators and a
steam turbine generator located in what is
now the plant’s coal yard. The Black Dog
proposal requires review and approval by
state agencies. If the $600 million project
is approved, site preparation could begin
in 2012 and foundation construction
could begin in 2013, Xcel says.
China’s wind-turbine manufacturer
Goldwind International has opened
a subsidiary company, Goldwind
Africa, in Cape Town, with the purpose
of supplying wind turbines as well as
wind energy project finance, to the
African market. Goldwind Africa will be
looking for projects to supply turbines and
projects to offer equity and debt financing,
the company says. South Africa is aiming
to generate 10,000 GWh from alternative
energy sources by 2013. In addition,
the company is looking for partnerships
with wind farm developers, energy
utilities and governments throughout
Africa to help grow the wind energy
sector on the continent. To date, the
company has manufactured and installed
approximately 7,000 wind turbines, both
inside and outside China, with a total
capacity of 6.5 GW.
Rwanda plans to spend $935 million
on the development of 310 MW of
electricity from geothermal sources in
the next seven years. Rwanda is one of
East Africa’s fastest growing economies
with an expansion rate of 7.5 percent
in 2010. The geothermal sources have
been identified between Gisenyi and
Karisimbi Volcano and Bugarama.
Geothermal power is produced by tapping
the steam created by water tapped near
hot rocks in the earth. Only 14 percent
of the Rwandan population has access
to electricity. Rwanda is also looking at
developing hydropower, methane gas,
solar, biogas, and peat, with an ultimate
goal to reach 1,000 MW or production
capacity by 2017.
SBI Energy forecasts a more
competitive nuclear landscape as a
result of the recent earthquake and
tsunami that struck Japan, damaging
reactors and spurring countrywide
evacuation. SBI estimates the future
growth of the nuclear energy technology
market will be dampened, totaling at
least 17.2 percent less than originally
projected in 2020.
Small modular
reactors may garner even more attention,
as they prove to be disaster friendly.
Boiling Water Reactors will survive as
the leading reactor type used in nuclear
facilities. Newer BWRs, technically called
Advanced Boiling Water Reactors, feature
far more evolved safety technologies and
other features built into the design.
Between 2010-2020, North American
oil and gas production is forecast
to increase at AAGRs of 2.1 percent
and 0.7 percent. The US and Canada
will together produce 9,746,000 barrels
per day of crude oil and 27,047.9 Bcf
of natural gas in 2020. By 2015, Brazil
will emerge as South and Central
America’s largest crude oil producer,
overtaking Venezuela and Mexico. With
substantial reserves found in offshore
waters of Brazil, the country is expected
to increase its production by an average
of 7.8 percent per year. Also, amidst
increasing usage of hydroelectricity and
ethanol production from sugarcane, the
demand for fossil fuels is expected to
remain low in Brazil in the medium to
long term. GBI Research’s report “Oil
and Gas Supply Demand Outlook in the
Americas to 2020 – Increasing Oil and
Gas Production Changing the Industry
Dynamics” provides an in-depth analysis
of the oil and gas supply and demand
outlook. Call +44 (0) 207 936 6676.
South African construction firm Group
Five plans construction of an R5billion solar plant to supply power utility
Eskom, with first power seen in two years,
a company official said. The project is
located in the Northern Cape province
and could be the first of a number of
phases that could be constructed on the
site, eventually producing up to 450 MW.
South Africa could produce its first solar
power from a proposed $21 billion solar
park by 2012, supplying 5,000 MW of
power.
Fossil fuels made gains in 2010 as
sources of new electrical power in
the US, according to the American Wind
Energy Association. Other renewables,
biomass, geothermal and solar also
made gains, but wind energy sustained
a setback.
Wind accounted for 25
percent of all new energy generation in
2010, about 5,116 MW, a drop from 39
percent in 2009. Natural gas accounted
for almost 40 percent of all new energy
generation in 2010 and coal accounted
for 25 percent.
RWE’s coal-power plant in Tilbury,
plans to convert its 1,050-megawatt
coal-power station in the UK to run
entirely on wood pellets. The UK
is encouraging other utilities to burn
biomass, such as wood pellets and other
plant matter, to help reach a European
Union target of getting 15 percent of its
energy from renewable sources. Tilbury
is one of nine UK power plants with a
limited number of hours left to operate
under EU laws to curb the release of
gases linked to acid rain. The stations
must close by 2016 or when the allotted
hours are used.
The US Department of Energy plans
to reduce the cost of installed solar
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power in the country by 75 percent
by the end of the decade. At $1 per
watt – 6 cents per kilowatt hour – most
industry analysts agree solar-generated
electricity power could compete with
coal-fired electricity. California is the top
solar market in the US, while Germany
leads the world.
The University of Texas at El Paso has
a $1 million grant to create UTEP’s
first renewable energy resource
system on campus. The grant will be
used to purchase a canopy style solar
photovoltaic system for the facilities
services parking lot.
The energy
generated from the system is intended to
offset 80 percent of the annual electrical
energy use at the facilities complex.
The system will generate approximately
300,000 kilowatt hours per year at the
facilities complex. Purpose of the SECO
program is to further develop Texas’s
renewable energy potential, assist in
meeting the state’s Renewable Portfolio
Standard target of 10,000 megawatts
by 2025, and advance the market for
renewable technologies.
Cornell University’s central energy
plant at its Ithaca, NY campus is
now coal-free, in favor of natural gas
being used in the CHP plant, following
the success of the University’s “Moving
Beyond Coal” initiative. In the autumn
of 2009, Cornell launched the Climate
Action Plan, a set of 19 initiatives that are
currently being implemented to achieve
net-zero emissions rates at the university
by 2050.
Romano, an engineering, procurement
and construction contractor, has
installed a 150 kW solar photovoltaic
energy system on the roof of Pick n’ Pay’s
new distribution center in Longmeadow,
Johannesburg. It is believed to be the
largest PV installation in South Africa,
to date. The system comprises 690
polycrystalline PV modules, each of
which produces 215 W at peak.
Australia’s CS Energy plans to install
44-megawatts worth of solar on about
30 hectares of its Kogan Creek Power
Station in Queensland within the first
half of 2011, and have it complete by
2013. The $104.7 million solar project is
claimed by CS Energy to be the largest
solar integration with a coal-fired power
station in the world. It will be built and
operated by Areva Solar.
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COAL PEOPLE
in the news 2011
Citizen’s Medal from his hometown of
Straubing; Businessman of the Year –
Balantonfured, Hungary; and the Lion’s
Club Gold Metal of Merit.
INDUSTRY LOSES INNOVATOR:
ERICH SENNEBOGEN SR.
Constantino Lannes, president of
SENNEBOGEN LLC, based near
Charlotte, NC, said: “The passing of
Mr. Eric Sennebogen Sr. saddens all of
us that knew him, or just knew of him.
Although he was not a man to waste his
words, he always had a good word to
provide the right amount of motivation for
those around him.
“We have lost the personality that has
embodied the history, the values and
the success of the SENNEBOGEN
Group for six decades.”
Erich Sennebogen Sr., the driving
force
behind
SENNEBOGEN
Machinenfabrik since 1952 has died at
the age of 79.
Starting in 1952 at the age of 21, with
13 employees, Mr. Sennebogen began
building agricultural utility equipment and
today, for the last ten years under the
direction of his sons Erich and Walter,
this global organization with over 1,000
employees designs and builds hydraulic
material handling equipment, rope
excavators, cranes, carrier equipment
and steel components. It has established
manufacturing facilities in Germany
and Hungary along with offices and
warehousing operating in the US, Russia,
Singapore and Dubai.
He was remembered as an entrepreneur
with a “no such thing as ‘can’t’ attitude”
that now empowers their design and
engineering teams as well as their
distribution and service partners in over
70 countries. It is this attitude that has
allowed SENNEBOGEN to become the
market leaders in every industry they
serve by meeting the needs of their
customers and working with them to
solve their challenges.
Mr. Sennebogen has received many
honors, most recently the Order of Merit
of the Republic of Germany, First Class;
the Bavarian Order of Merit; the Gold
“He was an unbelievable man who
started from nothing in 1952 and built up
the SENNEBOGEN Group of companies
to what we are today. I always was
fascinated with his ideas and innovation.
He understood and was able to combine
men and machines in order to optimize
results.”
Bill Warfield appointed business
development manager of Geotechnical
Drilling and Exploration (GDE) for Atlas
Copco Construction & Mining, Commerce
City, CO. In his new role, Warfield will
work with Atlas Copco sales staff as well
as engineering firms and contractors
around the country to promote the entire
GDE product line. Most recently, Warfield
had been product manager of Ground
Engineering Products for Atlas Copco.
Julie Terry named manager of
government relations for the North
American coal operations of Cliffs Natural
Resources, Charleston, WV.
Terry
comes to the position after serving as
director of Vision Shared, a West Virginia
economic and community development
organization. She was previously a
reporter for the WV State Journal.
Rashda M. Buttar has assumed the role
of corporate secretary with Patriot Coal
Corporation, in addition to her ongoing
duties as vice president and associate
general counsel. In her new role, Buttar
will have responsibility for corporate
governance matters, working directly
with the company’s board of directions,
in addition to her existing duties.
Richard de Villers has joined the board
of Village Main Reef, Johannesburg, as
human resources director. De Villers
began his career at Blyvooruitzicht mine
and has been involved in the industry
for the past 40 years. He previously
served on the boards of Harmony Gold,
Randgold & Exploration, ERPM and
DRDGold.
Deni Albrecht promoted to leader of
sustainability. His previous title was
senior logistics engineer for Kenco
Management Services, Chattanooga,
TN. Albrecht joined Kenco in 2008 and,
prior to that, was on active duty in the US
Navy Nuclear Power Program until 1989,
when he transferred to the Navy reserve
and worked for local heavy machine
manufacturers as a manufacturing
methods engineer, machine design
engineer and engineering manager.
Kenco also announces the promotion of
Jason Minghini to senior director of best
practices, and will lead strategic direction
and oversight to the areas of quality
management and engineering.
Rick Laviolette has joined Anvil
International, Portsmouth, NH, as
vice president and general manager
of Anvil Engineered Pipe Supports
(EPS).
Laviolette has 29 years of
diversified management experience in
sales, manufacturing and applications
engineering. Prior to joining Anvil, he
was president of Resolute Composite
Technologies. He will be responsible
for all aspects of the EPS operation,
with particular focus on expanding the
division globally. He will be based in
North Kingstown, RI.
Michael Lewis joins Staco Energy
Products, Dayton, OH, as central
regional manager. Lewis has 20 years of
experience in the power quality industry.
He will be responsible for developing and
maintaining relationships with business
partners who promote the company’s
power quality products in the central
region of the US.
Royce Holland Sturgill, Jr., Amanda
Slaughter and Cara N. Wicks join Skelly
and Loy as engineering technician, mine
permitting specialist, and administrative
assistant, respectively, at its newly
opened office in Wise, VA. Sturgill will
prepare maps, plans, cross sections,
and other types of drawings; drainage
excavation, site plans, compute earthwork
volumes (cuts and fills); design drainage
structures, valley fills, and roads; assist
in preparing permit applications, reserve
studies, and other technical reports;
and perform field surveys. He has more
than 27 years experience. Slaughter will
examine maps, identify mineral deposits,
drilling, and other geologic information
for a variety of mining operations. She
will prepare permit applications and
zoning and conditional use applications;
and prepare various reports as well.
Peter Van Iersel, former managing
director and part-owner of Longwall
Associates Australia, named as an nonexecutive chairman of Reed Mining
Events. Van Iersel is director of the
Resources
Technology
Innovation
Centre, part of the federal government’s
Enterprise Connect division, and has
more than 40 years experience working
at all levels of the Australian mining
industry. His role with Reed Mining
Events will be in an advisory role.
George Huber III named president of
The Conveyor Equipment Manufacturers
Association (CEMA).
Huber is vice
president of Illinois-based Industrial
Kinetics and joins newly elected Vice
President Ron Arkema, Secretary
Warren Chandler and Treasurer Jerry
Heathman. Also elected to the board
are Super Industries Engineering Vice
President Bob Domnick; Douglas
Manufacturing President Paul Ross;
Fenner Dunlop Technology Senior
Vice President Geoff Normanton; and
Martin Engineering Director and Chief
Technology Officer Todd Swinderman.
Ian Cockerill appointed non-executive
director of the board of Peterstow
Aquapower, a water hydraulic drilling
systems manufacturer. Cockerill has 35
years of mining experience. Cockerill
is also a chairperson at Petmin and
Hummingbird Resources. He has been
an adviser to Peterstow for more than 10
years.
William (Tony) Cousins appointed
chief operating officer of Thelon Capital,
and will also serve on the Canadian
company’s board of directors. Cousins
is a 30-year industry veteran and the
managing director of Clear Fork Mining,
which Thelon acquired last December.
He will be involved in mining planning,
permitting, leasing and everyday
operations in the Appalachian region.
Bob Cameron, Centennial Coal founder,
is now chairman of the New South Wales
company, relinquishing his position as
managing director to chief operating
officer David Moult. Ken Moss, who
has served as chairman of the board
for 11 years will be leaving. Cameron
grew Preston Coal 22 years ago from a
$2 million, 150,000 tons per year mine
employing 30 people to the $2.5 billion,
20Mtpa Centennial Coal that was sold to
Thai energy group Banpu last year.
Ed J. Hullett, Sr. appointed store
manager at Atlas Copco’s company store
in Baltimore, MD. Since 2003, Hullet
has been the general manager of Valley
Supply and Equipment Co., Inc./Bobcat
Mid-Atlantic. His experience includes
sales, rental, parts, and service.
Alan Boeckmann has retired as
independent non-executive director of
BHP Billiton, and will be replaced by
Lindsay Maxsted. Boeckmann had
made a valuable contribution to the
BHP Billiton board and its remuneration
committee through his global project
experience and business acumen.
Maxsted’s appointment followed a
rigorous succession planning process to
identify the right candidate.
Steve Mangiafico appointed senior
account manager for Kroff Chemical
Company,
Inc.,
Pittsburgh,
PA,
responsible for sales, service and
technical support for new and existing
customers of the company, a division
that provides custom-blended chemicals
and processes for water and wastewater
treatment.
Scott
Antolik
appointed
service
manager for Atlas Copco’s Clarks
Summit, PA, location. Antolik has over 20
years of experience in the construction
industry. His product knowledge includes
compaction, crushers, compressors and
surface coal mining equipment. He will
implement processes that will improve
the company’s support, communications,
and interaction with the New York
customer base.
Deni Albrecht promoted to leader of
sustainability for Kenco, Chattanooga,
TN. Albrecht joined Kenco in 2008, leading
initiatives that include work measurement
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Coal People in the news continued
development
and
implementation,
site optimization modeling, operations
audits, process mapping, value stream
mapping, entitlement, energy efficiency
measurements, process design, best
methods development, ROI analysis,
regression testing, space planning,
equipment specifications and warehouse
layout.
Anthony
Clough
has
resigned
as managing director of Newland
Resources, after six months on the
job. The board has re-appointed nonexecutive director Michael Mulroney as
acting chief executive until a replacement
for the position can be found. Mulroney
has 30 years experience in the natural
resources and finance sectors and has
spent 12 years as a geologist and mining
company executive in a broad range of
commodities throughout Australia and
Southeast Asia.
Wayne Koonin has replaced Blair
Sergeant as financial director of Coal
of Africa Limited (CoAL), Johannesburg.
Sergeant will take up the position of
Lemur Resources MD, in which CoAL is
a significant shareholder. Craig Shaw
was appointed CFO to replace Koonin at
Platmin.
Mark Turner appointed chief operating
officer of Guildford Coal, and will guide
the Queensland development assets.
Turner has worked in the mining industry
for almost 20 years, having worked in iron,
ore, zinc, gold copper and coal mines
in Western /Australia and Queensland.
Most recently he was COO for Northern
Energy.
Mikhail Urvantsev appointed vice
president for commercial activities for
Mechel OAO, with a goal to map out
the best strategy to coordinate Mechel’s
commercial activities, aimed at cutting
supply costs and raising the group’s
profit by increasing sales efficiency. He
is a graduate of Moscow Commercial
University with a specialty in economics
and management in trade and catering.
Douglas Ritchie, Rio Tinto CEO for
energy, as well as its MD for Australia,
David Peever, and its chief development
officer for the coal division, Matthew
Coulter, have joined the board of directors
of Riversdale Mining.
Chairperson
Michael O’Keefe and non-executive
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director Andrew Love are resigning,
following either Rio Tinto acquiring a 50
percent shareholding in the company,
or the end of the offer period which was
April 20. O’Keefe has been chairperson
since 2004.
Mark Moreton joins Trolex as sales
manager, responsible for managing the
company’s sales team within the UK
as well as key client accounts. Keith
Bloomer appointed sales support
engineer. Bloomer’s experience in
wireless communications, radio systems
and GSM architecture means he is able
to offer export technical support to the
company’s customers and agents.
Phindile
Nzimande,
former
EDI
Holdings executive, appointed CEO of
the National Energy Regulator of South
Africa (Nersa), replacing Smunda
Mokoena, whose contract has come to
an end. Thembani Bukula appointed
as full time regulator responsible for
electricity regulation, Ethel Teljeur
named full-time member responsible for
piped-gas industry regulation and Dr.
Rod Crompton named full-time regulator
member responsible for petroleum
pipelines regulations.
R.J. (Rick) Fields joins United Central
Industrial
Supply,
Chapmanville,
WV branch, as an electrical product
specialist. Fields will be responsible
for heading up the inside sales and
customer service team whose focus is
on electrical products including the Eaton
Corp. (Cutler Hammer) Distribution and
Control product lines. His expertise
includes motor control center, molded
case circuit breakers, motor starter/
connectors, adjustable frequency drives,
dry type distribution transformers,
panelboards and switchboards.
His
previous experience includes more
than 29 years with Eaton Corporation
(formerly Westinghouse Electrical Corp.)
as a sales assistant, outside sales
engineer and inside electrical sales
engineer. He is a 1972 graduate of
Marshall University with a B.A. degree
in elementary education and a minor in
mathematics. United Central is a full line,
full service mining and industrial supplies
distributor with 28 locations in the US and
Canada.
Paul Burton, CEO of TNG, Perth,
appointed as MD. In his new role, Burton
will oversee the continued development of
TNG’s flagship Mount Peake vanadium/
titanium/iron project in the Northern
Territory, where the company recently
started a prefeasibiity study. Burton was
appointed to the TNG board as a director
in August 2008, and has served as CEO
since September 2009.
George Heard named chief executive
officer of Canada’s Thelon Capital and
will also serve on the company’s board
of directors. Heard has more than 35
years of experience in all aspects of
exploration, feasibility, development and
operation. In March, Thelon selected 30year veteran William Cousins as chief
operating officer, who will also have a
seat on the company’s board. Cousins
has experience in all stages of mine
planning, permitting, leasing and every
day operations in the Appalachian region.
Michael
Huggon
appointed
nonexecutive director and chairperson of
the board at African Oxygen, following the
resignation of Kent Masters. Matthias
Plotho appointed nonexecutive director
after Jurgen Nowicki resigned from the
position.
Tim Hedley, former BMA and Tarong
mine manager, appointed chief executive
at Endocoal as it embarks on a threeproduct strategy and seeks to move
its Orion Downs thermal coal mine in
Queensland to production. Hedley will
take over from Rod Austin, who will
move into the role of finance director.
Hedley will be based in Brisbane and
will oversee the company’s Queensland
staff. Austin will oversee the commercial
activities of the company, including
arranging project finance and negotiating
with potential off-take and joint venture
parties.
Robert Malasek named CFO of Liberty
Coal Energy, Edmonton, Alberta, and has
joined the company’s board of directors.
Malasek is a financial consultant
and works with a number of public
companies. Currently, he is a director
and CFO of Siga Resources Inc. and
the chief financial officer for Naturewell,
Inc. In another move, Liberty Coal has
created an advisory board and appointed
Richard Grabowski as its first member.
Grabowski has a 42-year mineral industry
career including executive and senior
level management and administrator
positions for both private industry and the
federal government.
Paul Vining appointed chief commercial
officer for Alpha Natural Resources,
Abingdon, VA, responsible for domestic
and international market development,
sales, transportation and logistics, and
product optimization for customers. He
will lead approximately 60 professionals
serving customers in more than 25
countries as well as most major domestic
utilities and industrial customers. He will
also oversee an expansion of Alpha’s
presence in the international coal
markets, including new overseas sales
locations serving the Asian markets.
Derek Anderson has accepted the new
position of district manager for the South
Central Region of Atlas Copco’s Drilling
Solutions, Rock Drilling Tools, Surface
Drilling Equipment, and Geotechnical
Drilling and exploration product lines.
His responsibilities include working with
Atlas Copco distributors Luby Equipment
and Venture Drilling Supply. Anderson
has worked for Ingersoll-Rand and Atlas
Copco for a combined total of 15 years.
Anderson will also be giving special
attention to the quarry, mining and
construction industries.
Robert J. Schneid named vice president
of business development & strategy
for Patriot Coal Corp., St. Louis, MO.
Schneid has more than 25 years of
experience in the coal and energy
industries, including more than 15 years
overseeing business development and
strategic planning activities. Additionally,
Janine A. Orf promoted to vice president
of investor relations, and will report
to Mark N. Schroeder. Orf joined the
company in 2007 as director of investor
relations.
Peabody Energy has appointed Scott P.
Lawson as Senior Vice President – Engineering Services. Based in St. Louis,
he will lead engineering, environmental,
geology, and design and construction
services across the company’s global
operations. Lawson will report to Executive Vice President – Technical Services
Jeane L. Hull.
“We look forward to the more than 25
years of experience Scott brings with
him,” said Hull. “His background demonstrates proven results across interna-
tional operations management and technical innovation, both vital areas that will
strengthen Peabody’s engineering activities supporting the company’s operations
in North America and Australia, and as
the company expands its global reach.”
Most recently, Lawson led the Bauxite
and Alumina Technology group for international miner Rio Tinto, where he directed a global team responsible for worldclass mining and refining performance
that included life-of-mine and reserve
development strategies, project management and capital delivery, asset management, operations technology support and
business improvement. Lawson also
served as global practice leader for Rio
Tinto’s Technology and Innovation group,
where he was responsible for developing
and implementing long-term strategies
for asset management, including standard technical systems, global collaborative forums and professional development programs.
Prior to that, Lawson was Vice President and General Manager of Engineering and Technical Services at Kennecott
Utah Copper, part of Rio Tinto; he oversaw major capital projects and plant engineering activities, as well as company-
wide health, safety, environmental and
sustainable development initiatives. He
also held responsibility for establishing
and managing Rio Tinto’s North American office for asset utilization, and led a
group of technical professionals supporting North and South American operations.
Lawson began his career in 1986 at the
Barrick Mercur Gold Mine, and held operational and management positions
of increasing responsibility at Rio Tinto
subsidiaries Kennecott Utah Copper and
Kennecott Minerals.
He holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of
Phoenix in Salt Lake City, and a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering from the University of Utah. He also
graduated from business and strategic
leadership programs at Duke University
in Durham, N.C., and the London School
of Business, respectively, and belongs to
the Society of the American Institute of
Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers. Lawson is a member of the University of Utah Industrial Advisory Board,
as part of the Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering.
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WesTech Opens in India
WesTech Engineering, Inc., an employee-owned manufacturer, founded in 1972,
has opened a new business unit in India, the fifth country in which WesTech has
business units. WesTech India commenced business on April 1st with offices located in New Delhi and Chennai, giving WesTech reach into both northern and
southern India.
An additional office will soon be opened in Mumbai, giving WesTech reach into
central India, as well.
“These offices enable us to offer our line of high efficiency liquid-solids separation
equipment to the markets in India,” says Ralph Cuter, Vice President of WesTech.
“We will focus on providing equipment for minerals processing, steel production,
coal washing, pulp and paper, and non-ferrous minerals industries.”
In the future, WesTech will also provide municipal water and wastewater process
equipment to bolster infrastructure in the country of more than one billion.
The business unit is operated and managed by B.P. Misra, Managing Director,
and P.P. Ramaswamy, Director – Marketing. Both men are recognized experts in
liquid-solids separation. Together they represent more than 60 years of experience in process equipment.
“We’re very pleased to bring on the expertise and capabilities of our colleagues,
who are well-recognized in our industry,” says Cutler. “WesTech is glad to add
their contributions to our global strategy in both resource management and environmental stewardship.”
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WORLDWIDE
news 2011
A revolution expected in the Russian
coal industry
A revolution is most likely in the coal
industries of many countries, including
Russia due to the serious accident at
‘the Japanese nuclear plant, which has
forced a reassessment of the future of
coal. An International Forum devoted to
coal, taking place in the Kemerov region
in Russia, is to discuss the future of the
coal sector.
The accident at the Fukusima nuclear
plant in Japan has raised doubts about
the future of nuclear energy in many
countries, forcing a reexamination of
other sources of energy, including coal.
At the present time, coal is second only
to gas as a fuel source and shares either
the second or third position with oil. In the
21st century, the high demand for coal
will remain, and the quality of the sector
will be different, says Sergei Pikin, Director of the Energy Development Foundation.
The accident at the Fukusima plant may
not have a direct impact on coal, but
might perhaps compel the use of more
modern method. It will however be incorrect to say that coal will disappear as a
major source of energy in the near future;
it will continue to play a key role in countries with huge reserves for a long time to
come, and perhaps a modern technology
of coal mining could be invented, Pikin
said. China is not going to stop using coal
soon. EU members are gradually shifting from coal energy to an ecologically
cleaner sources, and countries which can
afford it, are turning to solar and wind
sources of energy.
At the moment, introducing new technology to enhance safety is the major
problem in the coal sector in the world.
Coal mining remains extremely dangerous, and according to unofficial statistics,
each one million tons of coal mined cost
one human life. Accidents are rampant
in coal mines throughout the world, and
Russia, China, the U.S, Latin American states and other countries are not
exempt, says Sergei Shatirov, Deputy
Chairman of the Federation Council’s industrial policy committee.
Accidents and disasters have happened
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in many countries, which have forced the
enactment of bylaws to regulate operation at coal pits. And in Russia, the accident at the “Raspadskaya” pit in 2010
forced the hands of the government,
Shatirov recalls.
The tragedy in 2010 led to the introduction of a three-tier system of safety, and
work on a new technology of extracting
metal from coal slabs was speeded up
since the explosion of methane gas is the
major cause of accidents at coal mines.
Russia has also developed a new method of coal processing of which is capable
of giving the people a new understanding
of coal extraction, Shatirov says.
A synthesis of gas used in electro-energy
and chemical industries is obtained from
the processing of coal. The burning of
gas with the addition of pit methane produces extra electro-energy. In the chemical complex, it leads to the production
of high-grade fuel and other chemical
products that are in high demand on the
market.
The first innovative cluster electro devic
dubbed “coal Skolkovo” is already up
and running at the “belavskaya” coal
pit in Kemerov region. It consists of a
pit, a term cokes producing plant, an
electric power station based on coal and
burning gas. Experts predict that in the
21st century, gas-coal deposits will be
developed in place of coat because the
methane in coal should be extracted
and properly used. This is the innovative
version of the development of the coal
industry in the 21st century.
Xstrata has received conditional
environmental approval from the
federal government for its $3 billion
Wandoan thermal coal project in
Queensland’s Surat Basin. Targeting 30
million tons per year run-of-mine, Xstrata
has forecast first Wandoan exports to
start as early as 2014. The approval
allows Xstrata to advance to the final
stage of its mining lease application for
the project. Source: The Voice of Russia
The proposed excavation area under the
three farms, Vetleegte, Massenberg and
Hookraal would be the primary source of
feed to accommodate the recent off take
memorandum of understanding that the
venture signed with power utility Eskom
to supply coal to the Matimba power
station.
Puda Coal Inc., Yuncheng, expects
net income to increase by more than
80 percent in 2011, with the addition
of its new thermal coal business, it is
reported. In the past two years, the
company has taken over nine thermal
coal mines and four metallurgical coal
mines in the southern part of Shanxi.
Construction and expansion of some of
the mines is underway, which would add
some 840,000 tons of coal output this
year. The company expects to double its
revenue and triple its net income by 2012
from the levels in 2010 when the thermal
coal business reaches its full production
capacity of 3.5 million tons per year.
BHP Billiton, Melbourne, Australia,
plans to spend $2.5 billion on
expanding three metallurgical coal
projects in Queensland and $400 million
on an energy coal project in New South
Wales.
For its Waterberg coal project,
Australian coal mining company
Firestone Energy has appointed
Virtual Consulting Engineers as its
infrastructure
contractor,
Ingwenya
Mineral Tech as its coal processing
contractor and RCE Consultants to look
after the additional rail capacity needed
for the project. The project is expected
to start production at about 43,000 t/m
in April 2012, from an open pit mine,
increasing to 83,000 t/m by April 2015.
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Edenville Energy announces its
intention to acquire a 50.1 percent
interest in a coalfield project in
southern Tanzania for $2.2 million,
with a proposed increase to 70 percent
by committing to spend $750,000 on
exploration at the project. The project
has identified reserves and a strong
potential to rapidly grow in size.
Australia’s Firestone Energy and jointventure partner Sekoko Coal report
that a new mine design affirms that
100 million tons of metallurgical could
be accessed on three Waterberg farms.
Colombia Clean Power and Fuels
has inked a deal to acquire three
coal mining concessions in the
Boyaca district of Colombia. The
transaction expands the company’s
coverage to 25,594 acres and speeds
up its drilling exploration capabilities.
All the concessions are located in the
Otanche municipality. Colombia Clean
Power plans to build and operate mines
to extract both metallurgical and highgrade thermal coal, while implementing
advanced coal technologies, such as
coal gasification and coal-to-liquids, to
produce and sell metallurgical coke and
other clean-energy derivatives.
BHP Billiton has approved a $400
million expansion of its wholly
owned Mt. Arthur surface coal mine
in the Upper Hunter Valley of New South
First production from the expansion is
expected to start in the last half of 2013.
Wales to lift production by 4 million tons
per year run-of-mine to 24Mtpa.
Caledon Resources has increased
its coal reserve estimate for its Cook
coking and thermal coal mine in the
Bowen Basin in Queensland by 115
percent to 47.7 million tons. Caledon also
increased its total coal resource estimate
to 460Mt. Earlier, Caledon announced
that its Minyango underground project
near Blackwater could produce up to
9Mt per year ROM. Targeting first coal
in 2014, initial mining will need 310
operational workers to produce 3Mtpa of
saleable coal.
Howden, Rheden, The Netherlands, has
acquired Thomassen Compression
Systems BV, complementing Howden’s
existing range of compressors. Howden
designs, engineers and supplies air
and gas handling equipment including
industrial fans, process gas compressors
and rotary heat exchangers. Thomassen,
based in The Netherlands, focuses on
the design, assembly, installation and
servicing of custom-made horizontal
piston compressors.
Energy efficiency could be the
immediate solution to higher energy
demand, while renewable energy sources
were being considered for long-term
energy sustainability, energy experts said
at a world conference in Johannesburg,
South Africa. Global energy industry
players said that South Africa should
focus on energy efficiency as “another
fuel” that can be used to improve power
supply reliability, particularly considering
past and anticipated power interruptions
in South Africa. It was pointed out that
investment in energy efficiency is much
more affordable than building and
operating power plants.
Beacon Hill Resources has entered into
an agreement to purchase a Moatize
coal basin asset in Mozambique.
The $42 million acquisition from Global
Minerals & Metals is estimated to have
a gross coal resource of more than 450
million tons with evidence of a low-ash
export product with the potential for
coking coal. The acquisition has the
capability to increase Beacon Hill’s coal
resources in the region by more than five
fold, as well as to add further near-term
production of coking coal, it is reported.
GVK has signed an exclusive
agreement to continue negotiations
for the acquisition of Hancock Coal.
GVK must make an initial payment of
$1.3 billion, and continue payments for
the next three to four years. Apart from
the $4 billion equity, GVK has to pay
another $4 billion as debt and mining
development costs over the next six
years, bringing the total estimate to $8
billion. Hancock Coal has two mines,
Alpha Coal Project and Kevin’s Corner in
Queensland, Australia.
Forbes and Manhattan Coal Corp.
has signed a three-year agreement
to supply 1.75 million tons of thermal
coal to Vitol SA, valued at about $216.6
million. The Canadian company will sell
the coal from its Slater Coal properties in
South Africa. Forbes Coal said cash flow
from the deal would be used to increase
production at two of its operating mines
–Magdalena and Aviemore – in the Slater
Coal properties.
India added record power capacity in
the year ended March 2011, according
to the power minister. The country
expanded production capacity by 15,795
megawatts, led by NTPC Ltd., Adani
Power Ltd., Reliance Power Ltd. and Tata
Power Co.
Shanghai’s Taiyuan Mining Machinery
Group Coal Machines has acquired
Valley Longwall International. The
Valley Longwall brand will be retained by
China’s TMG. Valley had consolidated
its business into three divisions: drilling,
diesel and conveyors. The company is
a major manufacturer, maintainer and
distributor of conveyor products and
components. Other products include
the Driftrunner underground personnel
transporter, the Brumby utility vehicle
and the Jug-A-O utility loader, while
specializing in in-seam directional drilling
systems.
Resource Generation has been
granted a 30-year mining right for the
Boikarabelo open cut project in South
Africa’s Waterberg coal field, where it
is targeted for 6 million tons per year of
thermal production from early 2013. The
project holds 745Mt of probable reserves
based on 35 percent of its identified
resource area. First-stage development
is targeting 12Mtpa run-of-mine for
6Mtpa of thermal coal production over
five years.
Shandong Energy, established in
the Shandon Province, eastern
China, is now an amalgamation of
Shandong-based, state-owned coal
mining companies Xinwen Mining
Group, Zaozhuang Mining Group, Zibo
Mining Group, Feicheng Mining, Linyl
Mining Company and Longkou Mining
Company. The combined output of the
six coal enterprises is 84Mtpa, ranking
Shandong Energy among the top five
coal enterprises in China.
Leighton subsidiary John Holland
Group has a A$144 million mining
services
contract
with
Anglo
American’s
metallurgical
coal
business in Queensland. The threeyear contract extends to the Lake
Lindsay and Oak Park surface coal mine
operations, near Middlemount.
The
project consists of two underground and
two open cut mines, and mines some 11.8
million tons of coal a year, to produce in
excess of 8.5 million tons of prime-quality
hard coking coal and pulverized coal
injection coal.
Ukraine’s government plans to open
three new coal mines with annual
production capacity of 10.2 million
metric tons, located in Luhansk and
Donetsk regions and the Lviv region.
The government also plans to complete
the first stage of a new mine in the
northwestern Volynska region next year
that will produce 450,000 tons of coal a
year. Government-managed mines aim
to produce between 100 to 105 million
tons of coal a year.
The Queensland government reports
a proposed coal mine at Central
Highlands could create 1,000 ongoing
jobs. If approved, the Byerwen coal
mine would be constructed just west
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of Mackay. The $1.5 billion mine could
produce up to 10 million tons of coking
coal a year, for export to Japan and other
Asian markets. Construction could start
as early as next year.
Solid Energy has awarded a contract
to McConnell Dowell Constructors to
excavate and build a new $30 million
ventilation shaft for the northern sector
of the Huntly East Underground
Mine
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in the Waikato. The mine extension
would access coal reserves for supply
to New Zealand Steel, increasing Huntly
East Mine’s current life by 15 years and
the workforce from 160 to 230 people.
The proposed 270m deep shaft was
needed to ventilate the expanded mine.
Sponsored
by: construction is expected
Excavation and
to take about 18 months.
26 years. AAMC has applied for state
government approval for the Drayton
South project with 450 jobs at stake.
Drayton is targeting at least an additional
100Mt of ROM coal for open cut and
highwall mining.
Basil Read has a coal mine contract
with Beacon Hill Resources to
develop the Minas Moatize coal
mine in Mozambique. Basil Read
will be the principal contractor to build,
own and operate the coal handling
and preparation plant at the mine, as
well as the principal mining contractor
for four million tons a year, upon the
completion of the definitive feasibility
study by mining and minerals project
house TWP. Basil Read also announces
that the Majwe joint venture had secured
a multi-billion rand mining services
Anglo American Metallurgical Coal is
contract in Botswana, scheduled to start
asking environmental approval for its
in June. The contract is for the Cut 8
Drayton South project in New South
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Atomic Resources has entered
into a joint-venture agreement with
Indochina Coal to explore and develop
coal properties in Laos. Atomic and
Indochina are also in the process of
finalizing a similar-style agreement to
cover collaboration on joint opportunities
in Vietnam.
Coal India, India’s biggest coal
producers, plans to invest up to $3
billion in a coking coal mine, steel plant
and a seaport on Indonesia’s Kalimantan
Island.
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studies
have
been
completed for three of Bandanna
Energy’s Bowen Basin thermal coal
projects, with the Springsure Creek project
targeting two longwall operations for 11
million tons per year run-of-mine coal.
Larpro Projects, which also completed
the feasibility studies for Bandanna’s
Arcturus and Dingo West projects, based
the Springsure Creek feasibility study on
at least a 23-year mine life for production
of 195.8Mt of product coal.
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A complete Exhibitor Profile is featured in print and
on-line with company information, booth number and a description of what will be on display.
Call (800) 235-5188
or visit www.coalpeople.com to download a
2011 Editorial Calendar.
Business as usual at Brookville
No one can say that the recent dip in the global markets
hasn’t made everyone check their production schedules and
reassess how daily business operations could be improved.
At BEC, a few adjustments to better meet production needs
and improve the bottom line have also been made. Brookville
has been busy during the last few months implementing
product improvements and employing an after sales support
annual survey. In their efforts to be more customer oriented,
they annually review and improve the product line as well as
ways of doing business, and this year has been no exception.
The Brookville team has continued to look at product
improvements over the past year in order to offer customers
equipment that incorporates the best advancements
in technology that can improve the underground units
manufactured. The engineering department has been working
with a manufacturer of an LED display that can be installed
on all of their electronically controlled low emission Tier 3
engines. This unit will allow the operator and maintenance
personnel to use a water-tight dash-mounted LED display
screen to view many standard engine parameters as well
as active and stored trouble codes. This display will read
the CANBUS from the engine computer and display short
messages instead of flash codes, which had been the
previous standard. This will greatly improve the operation
personnel’s diagnostic capabilities with the engine fault
codes by providing a text translation for the most common
fault conditions. An example warning may be: “Engine
oil pressure low,” which can lead to significantly faster
maintenance repairs and less chance of problems going
untreated. The unit also features an enhanced alarm
indication with an ultra-bright alarm and shutdown LEDs
(amber and red). Brookville will begin installing this display
unit on some models scheduled in the latter part of 2009.
Brookville recently completed rail mounted personnel carriers
using a newly designed engine exhaust discharge system. The
company’s research and development focused on re-directing
the high-pressure engine exhaust down and away from the
operator and passengers. Providing a way to funnel the hot
exhaust away from the people aboard the equipment keeps
them cooler, and it also keeps high pressure air from blowing
dust in to the air which can be inhaled, get into their eyes, or
reduce tunnel visibility. BEC engineers found a delicate balance
of shielding and diffusers that did not create airflow restrictions
for the engine or further raise engine air temperatures. A unit
featuring this new design was recently shipped from the facility
after an extensive test and approval period. (see photo top right)
The company is also concerned with after sales input from
customers to assist in improving their experience with
Brookville. This year as part of an annual internal review, the
marketing department designed a new customer survey that
can be electronically sent to and returned by a global customer
base. The survey allows each recipient to grade Brookville
on their interaction with sales, service, and parts department
staff. These surveys are then tallied and weighted on the Likert
Scale to use in evaluating the effectiveness of the departments
and for inclusion in their annual auditing process. Improving
communication with their customer base will improve their value
as a supplier.
This Brookville rail-mounted personnel carrier shows
how the exhaust gases are funneled from the engine
compartment down to the bottom of the car body.
Brookville’s dual-purpose 15- ton 16- man battery unit
Brookville has also been working on expanding its market share
in other areas of the United States. The hard rock and precious
metal mining sectors continue to be new areas for the company
to explore new equipment designs made for narrower and
higher mines than typically found in Appalachian coal seams.
There has been a large increase in requests for rubber tired
tractors and personnel carriers. BEC offers stout units built on
rigid or articulated frames with high flotation tires. Brookville
also offers all of its rubber tired units with four wheel drive, and
rigid units come with optional crab and coordinated steering for
better maneuverability.
The Brookville facility continues to be bustling with activity
on all four of its product lines and looking positively toward
the remainder of 2009.
As the economy rebounds, BEC
has continued to forge ahead with product and process
improvements that will make their equipment a better value for
customers. After 91 years of continuous operation, Brookville
Equipment Corp. stands poised to meet the challenges of
increasing demand for their products for years to come.
Stop by Bluefield Coal Show Booth #107
to learn more about Brookville’s continued
growth. Can’t make the show?
Contact the company at
www.BrookvilleEquipment.com
or call (814) 849-2000.
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Delta and Carroll
Launch Power Factor
Correction Services
Delta Electric, Inc. and Carroll Engineering Co. are leaders in the
mining distribution industry with over 30-plus years experience.
A new product service will be introduced by both companies at
the Bluefield Coal Show, Booths 306 and 308. The new service
product is Power Factor Correction. The service evaluates
existing electric bills and penalties utilizing software programs
and analysis to minimize the possibility of the increase in electric
bills. The Power Factor analysis will enable the coal company
to add the savings to their profit margin. These services are
capable of monitoring and analyzing electric bills on a period
basis to determine effectiveness and efficiency of corrective
measures, while serving as an advocate for their customers
regarding conflict resolution with equipment manufacturers.
Delta and Carroll are leaders in providing MSHA-approved
and field-tested communication, tracking, and atmospheric
monitoring systems to the mining industry. Both companies
provide services on a 24 hour basis to their customers, while
other distributors only provide the products. Delta Electric, Inc.
and Carroll Engineering Co. provide repair and service exchange
programs to keep their customers in the coal. The new central
communication system provided by both companies presents to
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the mining industry the state of the art communication utilizing
CISCO system technology. This system provides immediate
access to senior supervisors, employees, and regulators, if
necessary, with on-the-spot communications by one mouse
click on their computer.
Delta Electric, Inc. and Carroll Engineering Co. are factory
authorized repair facilities for over 77 different product lines.
They are leaders in distribution with Pyott-Boone Atmospheric
Monitoring Systems, Matrix (METS) Tracking Systems, Eaton/
Cutler-Hammer Electrical Components, VARIS Communication
Systems, Comtrol Systems, SMC Electrical Products Inc., and
many other product lines specializing in safety to the mining
industry.
Delta Electric, Inc. and Carroll Engineering Co. maintain
over 7 million dollars worth of spare parts from 77 different
manufacturers at 11 conveniently located distribution centers.
There are over 100 experienced employees dedicated to
customer service. Our motto is “Right Products at the Right
Time.” Visit their websites: www.deltaelectricwv.com, www.
carrollengineeringco.com, and www.carrolltechnologiesgroup.
com.
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By Bill Archer
Bob Raines Headed to West Virginia Coal Hall of Fame
T
he journey hasn’t always been an easy one, but Robert L. “Bob” Raines, a Mercer
County, West Virginia native who came of age in the coalfields of Wyoming County,
West Virginia, earned his place in the West Virginia Coal Hall of Fame through hard
work and sheer determination.
Raines, 75, paid his dues by choking down bug dust working behind a coal cutting machine
while he was still a student at Herndon High School in Wyoming County. He acquired the skills
he needed to learn to make coal mines safer and more productive, and combined his considerable experience, know-how and foresight to broker deals that would re-establish the Appalachian region coalfields in the global metallurgical and thermal coal marketplace.
During the first 10 years of his career, Raines worked and learned, moving from the job of
rod man on a survey crew in the American Coal Company’s Deerfield Mine where he earned
$2.08 per hour, up to the job of mine superintendent in Allied Chemical Corporation mines in
McDowell and Fayette counties. During the brief part of his career working in, designing and
operating underground coal mines, Raines proved effective as an employee who could get the
job done, and as a boss who was willing to go the extra mile to make conditions safe in coal
mines, but not cave in to unrealistic expectations from anyone from his bosses to the people
who worked for him.
As a result of his singular approach, Raines earned a great level of respect throughout the
coalfields. During his 31-year career with Bluefield, West Virginia, based Pocahontas Land
Corporation, he worked his way up the ladder of success from mine inspector, mining engineer,
engineer for special projects, manager for special projects, assistant general manager, general
manager, and vice president before being named president in 1987, a position he held until his
retirement in 1995.
During his exceptional career, Bob Raines made some great friends that stay in touch and
enjoy visiting him in person or on the telephone. One of the amazing things about Raines is
that he is equally proud of being named to the Wyoming County East Hall of Fame in 2003 as
he was in 2000 when Governor Cecil Underwood presented him with a Distinguished West
Virginian Award.
In addition to shoveling bug dust during his high school years, Raines was an all-state honorable mention athlete in basketball and baseball at Herndon High School, and earned a baseball
scholarship at West Virginia University. Raines was a pinch hitter and pitcher on a WVU baseball team that included Sam Huff, who was destined to define the middle linebacker position in
modern professional football and earn a slot in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Raines didn’t get the chance to finish his degree at WVU due to the death of his father, but the
academic background he received during three-plus years of study in WVU’s School of Mines
provided him with the knowledge he would need to understand coal mine operations. When he
combined his formal education with the guidance he received from coal people like Jim Brown,
Percy Gilley, Ralph Ratliff, Clarence Jesse and many more, he was put in position to make a
difference in the way coal mines were operated.
Bob Raines is filled with stories.When he was with Allied Chemical, he got the assignment to
re-work and combine two McDowell County mines – Caples and Havaco. Both mines were in
the Pocahontas Three seam, and Havaco was known to be one of the most gassy coal mines
in southern West Virginia. When it was known as the Jed Mine, an explosion in 1912 claimed
the lives of 81 coal miners and, after it was re-opened after World War II, an explosion at the
(then) Havaco Mine on January 15, 1946, killed 15 coal miners.
Raines accepted the challenge to combine Caples and Havaco into one mine called Shannon
Branch. “I remember the first time I went into the Havaco side of that mine,” Raines said. “There
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was an old black guy operating a cutting machine and singing.
I lit my safety light and the gas blew it right out, so I shut down
the cutting machine right then and got the coal miners out of
there until we could get some proper stoppings and ventilation
in there.”
Some times, it took Raines and Clarence Jesse walking through
neck-deep water in some sections to get the methane out of the
mine, but Shannon Branch became a productive and safe mine
in the years after Raines re-worked the engineering.
But Pocahontas Land gave Raines the opportunity to bring his
training, experience and skills to the forefront. He’s still proud
of all the people he brought into the company, including Marshal Miller, board chairman and founder of Marshall Miller Associates, a well-known global geologic engineering firm. Miller
worked for the US Geological Survey after he got out of WVU,
but Raines saw his talent and hired him at Pocahontas Land.
“Marshall was with us for four years,” Raines said, recalling the
time when the two were in Ohio surveying mine property. “He
told me that he was going out on his own. I hated to see him
go, but I could never hold someone back who was trying to
improve himself. Marshall did pretty well on his own.” Miller was
inducted into the West Virginia Coal Hall of Fame in 2004.
During those early years with Pocahontas Land, Raines made
some lasting friendships with like-minded individuals with the
(then) Norfolk & Western Railway that had a similar commitment to the coal industry. He met a young N&W attorney, David Goode, working on particularly challenging leases, but both
men found out they could count on each other for thorough and
precise work. Goode went on to become president, chief executive officer and board chairman of Norfolk Southern Corporation.
In spite of its strength, coal wasn’t the fuel of the future as the
world became increasingly dependent on oil from the Middle
East, and saw nuclear power replacing coal in a portfolio including hydro, wind and solar energy. Raines was part of a
new breed of coal men associated with the N&W, later NS railway, who committed to coal in the long run. Leaders including Raines, Goode, the late Paige Wooldridge, Steve Tobias,
Arnold McKinnon (who preceded Goode as NS president), the
late Bill Fox, Daniel Smith, an NS vice president who remains
as Pocahontas Land president, and others, provided a structure
for Appalachian region coal to find new markets in a new millennium.
About four years after N&W and Southern Railway merged to
become NS, Raines was instrumental in orchestrating the deal
that brought two key coal properties – the 60,000-acre MingoLogan tract and the 40,000-acre Pike County, Kentucky tract
– into the NS Corporation fold. “I spent more than $100 million
of the railroad’s money in three months time,” Raines still says
with pride.
Pocahontas Land acquired Mingo-Logan for $69.1 million on
December 6, 1986, and a few months later, purchased the Pike
County properties for $40 million. Those acquisitions provided
a basis for NS to move forward in the future and establish real
market strength – the kind of strength the company needed a
few years later during the joint acquisition of Conrail with CSX
Transportation.
But Raines didn’t just broker coal deals. WVU Mountaineer
football fans have to appreciate that during his two-year tenure
on the WVU Athletic Council (1979-80) he chaired the search
committee that brought Coach Don Nehlen to WVU. Through
the years, Raines has received numerous awards from professional societies as well as for civic work in the community.
Raines now lives in Princeton, West Virginia, with his wife Brenda. The Coal Hall of Fame ceremony was in Charleston, West
Virginia, on May 6, 2011. Raines was honored among a class
of inductees that included Purnal L. “Judge” McWhorter, as well
as two coal men who were selected to the hall posthumously -the late James Herbert Fletcher and the late Johnson Camden
McKinley. The Coal Hall of Fame was established 18 years ago
by the West Virginia Coal Association, the West Virginia Coal
Mining Institute and the West Virginia Mining and Reclamation
Association.
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JADCO MANUFACTURING Names Regional Sales
Manager and Hires Manager of Safety, Quality, and
Continuous Improvement
JADCO Manufacturing, Inc., has hired Michael Jenkins
as its Regional Sales Manager for Minnesota, the Upper
Peninsula (Michigan), northern Wisconsin, and the Greater
Chicagoland territories.
Jenkins will help increase demand for the company’s
proprietary and world-renowned QT PLUS™ wear steel and
Chromeweld600™ chromium-carbide overlay plate brands.
These products are commonly used to provide exceptional
life on breaker plates, truck beds, bin liners, and chutes.
“Michael’s 17 years of genuinely applicable industry
experience is an ideal fit to enable us to reach our aggressive
sales objectives,” says Scott Rife, JADCO’s Vice President.
“His new sales area is especially vital to our overall growth
– and we believe his proven track record for cultivating new
business makes him the right addition, at just the right time,
to our team.”
Melissa Dunkerley was hired as Manager – Safety, Quality,
and Continuous Improvement.
Most recently, Melissa was Board Production and Quality
Manager, with full project responsibility from conception
through completion, for US Gypsum. Her other roles at that
world-renowned company included Mill, Packing, and Quality
Manager; Plant Engineer; and Project Engineer.
“Melissa’s vast quality and safety experience and expertise
gained at US Gypsum will ideally complement JADCO’s
aggressive business-growth goals. She will lead us to an
advanced level of safety and quality that will benefit our
employees and customers,” says Sam Anderson, JADCO’s
President.
Dunkerley earned a BS degree in Chemical Engineering
from Penn State University. She also possesses
certifications in Six Sigma and Lean methodologies, EH&S
Management, and Quality and Safety Assurance.
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Coal People Dig “Coal”
By Bill Archer
R
onnie Bevins (left) retired in the fall of 2010 after working 30
years as an underground coal miner when a newspaper article
he saw grabbed his attention. From the moment he learned that
Spike TV planned to film a 10-part documentary/reality series
called Coal, he couldn’t wait until it was on television.
The way things worked out, he didn’t have to wait until the March 30,
2011 broadcast premier. His daughter, Angela, works at the Bluefield
Daily Telegraph and got a chance to take a press pre-screening copy
home with her. The two of them watched together. “He was as excited as
a kid at Christmas,” Angela Bevins said.
For 30 years, Bevins supported his family by working as a coal miner in
southern West Virginia, and his family supported him in return. Bevins
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was in his early 20s when he went to work at the Keystone #1 Mine – the
same mine where his father worked 40 years and his grandfather had
worked as well. “I had some cousins who worked there too,” he said. Bevins
and his daddy didn’t work on the same shift, but their careers overlapped.
Ronnie Bevins would have stayed at Keystone #1 as long as his father did,
but the mine closed in 1985, and he started looking for work again. He found
a job at a Boone County coal mine, ran shuttle car, longwall machine, set
jacks and did about any job he was asked to do. When the mine closed in
2010, he decided to put his dinner bucket and hard hat aside.
“I don’t know how many washing machines my mother went through washing
daddy’s bank clothes,” Angela Bevins said. Bank clothes is a term coal
mining families use to describe a coal miner’s work clothes – the clothes
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left to right, Jonathan Dotson, roof bolter; J.C. Wooldridge, mine superintendent and Tom Roberts, president of Cobalt Coal.
they wear to work in the coal bank. “Mom
kept the washing machine clean, but we
had to buy a new one about once a year.
Washing machines couldn’t take it.”
southern West Virginia metallurgical
coalfields, but he is proud of his more
than three decades of working in thermal
coalfields west of his Tennessee home.
attention to it. I just went on about my
business and did my job.” Still, Crowder
said he thinks the coal miners can do
better.
Mike Crowder, Cobalt’s chief executive
officer (above), also calls Tennessee
home. He doesn’t have a background
in the coal industry, but he knows
business and he knows how to run a
tight ship. When Ronnie Bevins said that
his favorite part of the series opening
was “the parts with the cussing,” that
Original Productions had not yet cleared
for television audiences, Crowder said
that the Cobalt coal miners would have
to work on not cussing as much in the
future.
Thom Beers, executive producer and
CEO of Original Productions (above)
said he is “from New York” and is gaining
a greater understanding for the language
in the coal mines. He said the sound of
a continuous miner and a roof bolter can
make it more difficult, but he added that
he is learning.
When filming started on Coal, J.C.
Wooldridge, superintendent of Cobalt
Coal’s Westchester Mine near Big Sandy,
McDowell County, West Virginia, said he
took Eric Lange, co-executive producer
for Original Productions underground on
a man trip. “Eric did something I never did
in nearly 40 years of working in mines,”
he said. “He got off the shuttle car, put his
hands in the mud and wiped it all over his
face,” Wooldridge said. “I had never seen
anybody do that before.”
Wooldridge grew up in Gary Hollow,
graduated from Gary High School and
went to work at the U.S. Steel #14 Mines.
“I only stayed there for a short time that
first time,” he said. “When they started
building the East River Mountain Tunnel,
I went to work over there.” However, in
the mid 1970s, before the tunnel project
was finished, the mine superintendent
at Gary #14 asked him to work for him.
“A short time after I went back to work
at U.S. Steel, I started working on my
superintendent’s papers,” Wooldridge
said.
The U.S. Steel mines in southern West
Virginia took an aggressive approach to
safety in underground coal mining, and
Wooldridge brought that same culture of
safety with him when he came to Cobalt
Coal. The company itself isn’t a madefor-TV experiment. Tom Roberts, Cobalt
president, is a relative newcomer to the
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“You hear a lot of that in the coal mines,”
Ronnie Bevins said. “I never paid no
Beers picked the coal industry for his
most recent project because it is a high
risk business with the potential for a
high reward. He said that he searched
4-5 years before finding Cobalt Coal – a
company that was risking its own capital
investment to make a go of it in an industry
where there is always the potential for danger.
He likened the project to his work with “Deadliest
Catch,” and said during a press conference at the
Eastern Kentucky Expo Center that he hasn’t “felt
this good about a show since ‘Deadliest Catch.’”
Beers is also the mastermind behind “Ice Road
Truckers” and “Ax Men,” among others.
During the press conference, Beers said that he
wasn’t interested in advancing a political position as
to the impact coal mining has on the environment,
but he was quick to point out that he didn’t want to
argue the point with anyone until they could show
him an energy source that is capable of meeting 50
percent of the nation’s energy needs.
Kevin Kay, president of Spike TV, addressed
the same question at the press conference. He
reminded reporters that Spike is the network that
introduced viewers to the “Most Extreme Elimination
Challenge,” and added: “Spike is not the place
you want to come to get a political point of view.”
Still, Kay said Spike is proud to join forces with
Beers, Original Productions and the coal miners of
Cobalt Coal to bring viewers an accurate view of
underground coal mining.
Cobalt’s miners are using a Joy continuous miner
to extract the metallurgical coal in the Sewell seam.
The coal seam they work runs between 28-22
inches. Cobalt has about 40 employees working
two 10-hour shifts. Roberts said that the company
is working on a new contract for the coming year
and he hopes to benefit from steady growth in met
coal prices.
Bevins observed that the first show didn’t show much
about pre-shift safety meetings, and Wooldridge
said that Cobalt conducts regular pre-shift safety
meetings and added that the company emphasizes
safety and works in a cooperative situation with
the Mine Safety and Health Administration and
the West Virginia Office of Miners Health, Safety
and Training. The Original Production film crew
members who went underground completed the
80-hour underground mine safety course that is
required of all coal miners.
“It’s a good movie,” Bevins said. “Everything I saw
was just like it is underground. You’ve got to keep
your mind on what you’re doing all the time. You
can’t let your mind drift for one minute. It’s a good
movie.”
Spike TV ordered 10 episodes of “Coal.” The
broadcast premier was held at 10 p.m., on March
30. Beers loved filming the series underground
because the point source lighting provided an
interesting artistry to work with. Lange liked filming
underground, and said he “got lost in my lens.”
The production crew, Spike TV, Cobalt Coal and
the “heroes” as Beers called the coal miners,
appeared to enjoy working on the project. Now, the
public will get a chance to see what life is like in an
underground coal mine. Coal mining will never be
the same again.
Coal / Energy Event Calendar
MAY
1-7: North American Occupational Safety and Health (NAOSH) Week
and Occupational Safety and Health Professional (OSHP) Day,
Washington, DC
2-5: Coal Prep 2011, Lexington Convention Center, Lexington, KY.
3-5: Intl Coal Preparation Congress/Coal Prep 2011, Lexington
Convention Center, Lexington, KY.
4: ASSE Photography for Safety Professionals webinar, 11am to
12:30pm, CDT.
5-7: West Virginia Coal Mining Institute, West Virginia Coal Association
and Central Appalachian Section/SME Joint Spring Meeting, Embassy
Suites Hotel, Charleston, WV.
6: Virginia Mining Association Spring Golf Outing, The Lonesome Pine
Country Club, Big Stone Gap, VA.
9-12: World of Coal Ash 2011, Marriott Tech Center, Denver, CO.
10-12: 13th Annual Electric Power Conference & Exhibition, Donald E.
Stephens Convention Center, Rosemont, IL.
10-12: Intergas VI Conference & Exhibition, Cairo Intl Convention and
Exhibition Centre – CICC, Cairo, Egypt. Call +44 20 7978 0342.
11-12: 4th Surat Basin Coal & Energy 2011 Conference, Stamford Plaza,
Brisbane. Call +61 2 9080 4307.
14-16: 14th Annual Electrical Safety, Reliability and Sustainability
Conference and Exhibition, The Benson Hotel, Portland, OR.
17: 14th Annual CEDAR Golf Scramble, Raven Rock Golf Course,
Jenkins, KY Visit www.cedarswv.com.
17-21: Solar Energy 2011, Raleigh, NC.
18-19: Coal Chemistry Technician Training, Anaheim, CA.
19-20: Rocky Mountain Coal Mining Institute CO/UT Regional Meeting,
Price, UT.
20: TVMI Dinner Meeting, speaker and sponsor TBA.
21-22: National Pike Steam Gas & Horse Construction Equipment
Show, Brownsville, PA
23-24: The Eastern Coal Council’s 32nd Annual Conference and Golf
Outing, Meadowview Conference Center, Kingsport, TN.
23-24: 2nd Annual Platts Small Modular Reactors, Mandarin Oriental
Hotel, Washington, DC. Contact Ron Berg at 781/430-2118.
23-25: World LNG Series: Americas Summit, Marriott Riverwalk, San
Antonio, TX. Call +44 20 7978 0061.
23-27: IAPH Busan 2011, Bexco, Busan, Korea. Visit www.iaph2011.kr/.
29-June 1: 17th Annual CoalTrans Asia, Bali, Indonesia
JUNE
1-3: 7th China Intl Coal Equipment and Mine Technical Equipment
Exhibition, China International Exhibition Center, Beijing, China.
5-9: 36th International Technical Conference on Clean Coal & Fuel
Systems (Clearwater Clean Coal Conference), Sheraton Sand Key,
Clearwater, FL.
6-10: 26th Annual Elko Mining Expo, Elko Convention Center, Elko, NV.
7-8: World XTL Summit 2011, Hilton Tower Bridge, UK.
7-9: Nigeria Oil and Gas Technology (NOG TECH), Eko Expo Center,
Lagos, Nigeria. Call: +44 20 7978 0340.
11-16: 28th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Mining and
Reclamation, Best Western Ramkota Hotel, Bismarck, ND
12-15: ASSE Professional Development Conference, “PDC Safety
2011”, McCormick Place Convention Center, Chicago, IL
14-16: 13th Africa Energy Forum, Le Plais des Congres, Paris, France.
21-23: 2011 Longwall USA Exhibition & Conference, David Lawrence
Exhibition Center, Pittsburgh, PA
26-28: 107th Convention and Annual Meeting Rocky Mountain Coal
Mining Institute, Keystone Resort and Conference Center, Keystone,
Co.
27: 5th Coaltrans Russia & CIS, TBA Russia.
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Visiting Western Pennsylvania
in the Late 1970s
A trip to the coal fields of western
Pennsylvania back in the late 1970s was
a learning process that gave us insight
into the coal industry like no other trip
we’ve taken since. It opened our eyes
to the personality of an industry replete
with colorful characters and an exciting,
“Wild-West” history of how it was in those
early days of mining.
Eileen Cooper, a
spit of a lady with
more energy than
her 101 pounds
might indicate, gave
us the grand tour
of Indiana County,
Pennsylvania, and
the surrounding coal
towns, most notably
Commodore
in
Green Township, a model town in
its heyday. Back when Commodore
Cornelius Vanderbilt founded it in 1919 it
featured homes constructed of concrete
block and indoor toilets, a comfort
unheard of in those days.
Eileen worked as an historian at Indiana
University of Pennsylvania (IUP). She
drove a VW that was filled with coal
antiques and she whizzed about the
county like the “beep-beep” roadrunner.
Her wild driving gave me goose bumps
the size of golf balls, but she handled that
little fellow with dexterity. After a while, I
forgot about death on the road and took
in the scenery. Mostly flat and scenic, the
area was beautiful. Eileen would wheeland-deal and beg, borrow and barter to
collect her beloved coal antiques, which
eventually wound up at a museum in
Johnstown, PA. She once traded two
sacks of manure for an antique.
as eight feet camouflaged the home of
George and as we walked in the big,
broad-shouldered miner extended a ham
hock of a hand. I could feel the power
surge through his arm as we gripped in
a handshake. George’s story sounded
like a version of the movie “High Noon”
that starred Gary Cooper, a town sheriff
abandoned by townspeople to face evil
outlaws all alone.
In the late 1920s, Commodore was
a focal point of a war between union
sympathizers and company policemen
called “pussyfoots.” George was the
company’s biggest problem. He took no
flack and stepped aside for no man. He
walked down the center of the cindered
streets of Commodore, well aware that
the pussyfoots were skulking behind
the buildings and along the boardwalks
that bordered the town, waiting for an
opportunity to ambush the rebel. Any
pussyfoot who challenged George
usually wound up on the ground, blinking
at swirling stars. “I didn’t pick no fights,
but I’ll tell you something, I didn’t walk
away from them.” Methinks he welcomed
confrontations.
He slammed his big fist on the table and it
shook, as his voice picked up. “They had
guns. They had guns and blackjacks.” A
guy was coming down with a blackjack
one time and rapped me on the wrist.
I took it off him and the gun, too. No, I
never got whipped, but I was a good bit
younger then.”
When George crossed the sea from
Lancaster, England, circa 1923, he was
a 16-year-old already with three years
experience as a coal miner. Wages were
as high as $7.50 a day, but later dipped
to $2.75 a day during hard times. All
that changed in 1939 when President
Roosevelt gave his support to the union.
This coal lady was a credit to IUP
and the coal industry, writing many
stories on the role women played
in coal mining as devoted, hardworking wives who had as much
to do with progress as the miners
themselves.
George’s story had the makings of an
epic movie. He met his Irish wife-to-be,
Elma, in an unusual way. “I watched this
little girl carry water in buckets from the
springs. She cleaned and scrubbed the
church every week. I felt for that poor little
girl and I went over and
got extra buckets and
helped her carry water.
A strong feeling came
from that first meeting
and we were married in
1929. We had a good
life together.”
Our first stop was at the Commodore
home of George Howorth, a
transplanted Englishman built like
a Brahma Bull. Hedges as high
Eileen led us to several
other feature stories
on coal miners, before
we learned that the
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great Jimmy Stewart had come from
Indiana, PA. His father had a hardware
store in Indiana and Jimmy left early in
his life to earn a degree from Princeton
University, before heading for Hollywood.
He wasn’t into coal and, although he had
a degree in architecture, he was bound
to be a movie actor. His slow drawl and
easy-going persona made him unique in
tinsel town where egos clashed. Jimmy
enlisted in the Air Force in 1941 and flew
25 bomber missions over enemy territory
during World War II. He rose to the rank
of colonel.
Another popular name that came up was
that of Arthur Godfrey, one of the first
talk show hosts who became nationally
famous. It was said that Godfrey was
born in Indiana, also, but that wasn’t
true. He came down from New York
in the 1920s to work as a “scab” or
strikebreaker in the Salmon Run mines.
The story goes that he couldn’t handle
the work and was advised by a doctor to
leave the mines. He didn’t need a lot of
convincing.
And who would have thought that we’d
come up with a name like Samuel L.
Clemens of Mark Twain fame. Clemens
purchased stock from the Clearfield
Bituminous Coal Corporation, the founder
of Commodore, back in 1886. He gave
his address as Hartford, CT.
We’ll end this column with one of many
stories that came out of the Coffee Club
at Indiana, PA, a group of retired coal
miners who talked all day long about
wild and crazy times. The story is about
Motorcycle John, who lived inside
a transformer house. “A friend and I
were going fishing one Sunday and we
stopped at Motorcycle John’s place. He
was cooking something in a 16-quart pot
on the stove,” continues the miner. “He
had a big platter like you use for a turkey.
We said ‘John’ we’d like to get fishing.
He insisted we stay to eat whatever was
in that big pot.” Motorcycle John set a
makeshift table with a butcher knife and
forks, while the fishermen stared at each
other curiously.
“Finally he came out and said you guys
eat first. I got a lot of time, you go ahead
and eat. He came out with a cow’s head
with horns and eyes looking right at you.
He set down the platter and said ‘go
ahead and eat boys. This is enough for
all three of us.’ He wasn’t joking.”
That is just a sample of some of the wild,
true or untrue, tales that one hears at the
Coffee Club.
Nick Cole
Enjoying
Re-visited
Success
in 2011
Dedicates His Season to Coal Miners and Coal Industry Supporters
N
ick Cole driver of the #63 Late Model Stock Car at
the Kingsport (TN) Speedway is enjoying himself a
lot in 2011 behind the wheel of his race car. So far in
2011 he has finished in the top 10 in all three Late Model races at the track with finishes of 6th, 8th, and 8th.
ing. I am used to qualifying and racing on Hoosier’s.
It will take me some time to get used to qualifying on
these Goodyear’s. We raced well though. They know
Nick Cole was here today. I have already tied my top
10 finishes from a year ago. I am really excited.”
Sponsors
On March 18, Kingsport Speedway kicked off their Friday night racing schedule that will remain for the remainder of the season. Cole qualified 8th out of 16
drivers. Cole would end up falling back to 11th on the
start of the race due to starting in the outside line. He
battled his way back to 8th and finished the race in 8th.
Starting in the outside line hurt us. Two or three cars
got by us and we burned our tires up getting back by
them. We finished where we started. I am happy to
finish on the lead lap and get a top 10 finish. I want to
thank all of my sponsors for their support.”
Nicholas Cole Racing was able to retain primary sponsor Alpha Natural Resources for the 2011 season
along with associate sponsors United Central Industrial Supply, Ecko Fire Protection, 3300 Artesian
Drinking Water, Buchanan Oil, and Frank’s Repair
Shop. New sponsors for the 2011 season include
Diann’s Advertising, Industrial Scientific, Coal
People Magazine, and Stanley Proto. “If it wasn’t for
the sponsors none of this would be possible. I want to
thank all of my sponsors from 2010 for sticking with me
after my horrific 2010 season. I can’t promise a better
2011 but, after the first three races, it sure is looking
better.”
Cole kicked off the 2011 season on February 26, participating in Kingsport Speedway’s first open practice
session.
On Saturday March 12, Kingsport Speedway re-opened
for the first time in 9 years. Cole started 13th out of 14
drivers but quickly started up through the field. At the
end of the 60 lap race Cole came home in 6th place.
“First off I want to thank my sponsors. They are awesome. They are coal mining companies and other coal
industry related companies, on this race car and I want
to dedicate this run to them and the coal miners. Qualifying hurt us. We were easily a top 5 car in practice. No
one told me how the new Goodyear tires are in qualifyMAY - Electric Power Show / Mine Safety Issue
On March 25, 2011, Kingsport Speedway hosted their
second Friday night race. Cole qualified 9th out of 12
drivers. He worked his way up to 6th before he started
battling an ill-handling race car. He ended the night in
8th place. “Again, I am happy to be getting these top
10 finishes. Two cars got around me and we didn’t finish where we should have. The car got so tight that I
just about couldn’t drive it. I had to ride the brakes so
long that the rotors were still glowing bright red ten minutes after the race. We will make some adjustments
and come back strong.
With Nick Cole finishing in the top 10 in all three races
this season, this leaves him in 6th place in the season
championship standings, one (1) point behind 5th place
and 16 points out of 1st place. He also is in the running for the NASCAR Late Model Rookie-of-the-Year
program and is in 2nd place, five (5) points behind 1st.
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American Mining Insurance ....................... 9 ......................www.americanmining.com
Analabs, Inc. ............................................ 33 ..............................www.analabsinc.com
Beam Blasting ....................................... 122 ........................www.beaminconline.com
HardSteel, Inc. ..................................................................53, 117
Borton, LC ............................................. 125 .......................................
www.borton.biz
JADCO,
Inc................................................................................ 2
Becker Wholesale Mine Supply ................. 7 ............. www.wholesaleminesupply.com
Boone Supply Co., Inc. ............................ 20 ...........................www.ropehangers.com
Bucyrus...................................................... 5 .................................. www.bucyrus.com
Cincinnati Mine Machinery .......................11 ...................................www.cinmine.com
Cogar Manufacturing, Inc ........................ 27 ................ www.cogarmineproducts.com
Energy Technologies, Inc. ....................... 29
Fairchild International, Inc. ...................... 43 ...............................www.fairchildint.com
FLEXCO ................................................. 45. ......................................www.flexco.com
Force Control Industries .......................... 28 ............................ www.forcecontrol.com
GUNDLACH Equipment Corp. ................ 21 ................................... www.gundlach.us
HardSteel, Inc. ......................................... 53 ................................ www.hardsteel.com
HSC Industrial ......................................... 39 ........................... www.hscindustrial.com
Irwin Mine & Tunneling ............................ 17 ...................................www.irwincar.com
JADCO ...................................................... 2 ................................ www.jadcomfg.com
Jeffrey Rader ........................................... 28 ............................. www.jeffreyrader.com
Jennmar Corporation ............................... 19 .................................. www.jennmar.com
Joy Mining Equipment ............................119 ...........................................www.joy.com
ABRASION / IMPACT RESISTANT MATERIALS
CBP Engineering ....................................................................114
S & S Urethane & Ceramics ...................................................114
ACTUATORS
CBP Engineering Corp .......................... 122 ...................... www.cbpengineering.com
RACO International, L.P. ........................................................ 26
Ceramic Technology, Inc ....................... 123 ............................. www.ceramictech.net
Coalfield Services, Inc. .......................... 124 .....................www.coalfieldservices.com
James A. Redding Company ..................................................114
Corky Wells Electric............................... 124 ...........................www.cwelectricinc.com
Precision Samplers, Inc ..........................................................114
Cowin & Co., Inc. ................................... 124 .................................www.cowin-co.com
AWARD RECOGNITION
Mine Safety Technologies Consortium .................................... 42
Farnham & Pfile ..................................... 123 .......................... www.farnham-pfile.com
BATTERY CHARGERS/MINE
Formsprag Clutch .................................. 123 ...............................www.formsprag.com
LaMarche Manufacturing .......................................................115
BATTERY POWERED SCOOPS / MINING EQUIPMENT
Fairchild International, Inc. ..................................................... 43
Gardner Paint Services, Inc................... 122
BELT ANALYZERS
GIW Industries ....................................... 124 .......................... www.giwindustries.com
Scantech................................................................................. 38
BELT DRIVES
HardSteel............................................... 125 ................................ www.hardsteel.com
Kerco, Inc. .............................................................................. 29
BRAKE & CLUTCH PRODUCTS
Industrial Resources .............................. 123 .....................................Force
www.indres.com
Control Industries ......................................................... 28
CABLE
FAULT LOCATORS
Innovative Utility Products ..................... 122 ...................................
www.iupcorp.com
Innovative Utility Products .......................................................114
ISCO Industries ..................................... 125 .................................www.isco-pipe.com
COAL PREPARATION PLANTS
Kengor Metals ......................................................................... 51
Jabo Supply Corporation ....................... 125 .............................. www.jabosupply.com
Steel Nation Steel Buildings .................................................... 37
James A. Redding Co ............................ 122 ....................... www.jamesaredding.com
Taggart Global ................................................... Back Cover, 120
COAL PREPARATION/PREPARATION EQUIPMENT
La Marche Manufacturing ...................... 123 .......................... www.lamarchemfg.com
Ceramic Technology, Inc. .......................................................115
Lincoln Contracting & Equip .................. 123 ........................................www.lceci.com
Industrial Resources, Inc ........................................................115
Jeffrey Rader ........................................................................... 28
Ludowici .................................................................................. 15
Marietta Silos LLC ................................. 125 ...............................www.AskMrSilo.com
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Marland Clutch ...................................... 123 ..................................COMMUNICATIONS
www.marland.com
Becker Wholesale Mine Supply ................................................. 7
Marshall Miller & Associates .................. 124 ..................................... www.mma1.com
Minesafe Electronics ............................................................... 13
COMMUNICATIONS / UNDERGROUND
Norwest Corporation................................ 64 ........................... www.norwestcorp.com
HSC Industrial ......................................................................... 39
Tunnel Radio ........................................................................... 39
Paul’s Repair Shop ................................ 124 ......................................www.fanone.org
CONSULTING SERVICES
Industries ........................................................................116
Pemco Corporation................................ 124 ......................................GIW
www.pemco.net
Marshall Miller & Associates ...................................................116
Precision Samplers................................ 122
CONSULTING SERVICES/ENGINEERS
Cowin & Company, Inc ...........................................................116
Richwood Industries .............................. 123 .................................www.richwood.com
CONTRACTORS
Rock & Coal Construction ..................... 123
Rock & Coal Construction ......................................................115
Rulmeca Corporation............................. 125 ........................... www.rulmecacorp.com
CONVEYOR ACCESSORIES/BELTING
FLEXCO ................................................................................. 45
Richwood Industries ........................................................12, 115
S & S Urethane & Ceramics, Inc ........... 122 ............................. www.ssurethane.com
BACKSTOPS
San-Con Industries, Inc ......................... 125 ..................................CONVEYOR
www.san-con.com
Formsprag Clutch ..................................................................115
Skelly and Loy ....................................... 124 ..................................www.skellyloy.com
Marland Clutch ......................................................................115
Steel Nation Steel Buildings .................. 124 ..............www.steelnationsbuildings.com
CRUSHERS
GUNDLACH Equipment Corp. ................................................ 21
CUTTING & CONVEYING
Cincinnati Mine Machinery, Inc. ................................................11
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Kengor Metals, LLC ................................. 51 ......................... www.kengormetals.com
Kerco, Inc. ............................................... 29 ........................................ www.kerco.net
Lee Supply Co., Inc. ................................ 23 ................................ www.leesupply.com
Ludowici................................................... 15 .................................. www.ludomin.com
Mine Safety Technologies Consortium .... 42
Minesafe Electronics ............................... 13 .............. www.minesafe-electronics.com
Minova USA............................................. 24 ..............................www.minovausa.com
Peterson Filters ....................................... 20 ........................ www.petersonfilters.com
Taggart Global ............................... 120 (BC) .......................... www.taggartglobal.com
Tunnel Radio ........................................... 39 ............................. www.tunnelradio.com
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5000 Wrightsboro Road
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706-863-1011
Coalfield Services, Inc. specializes
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fans of all sizes. Coalfield Services, Inc.
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Horizontally
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the direction of mine ventilation has no
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Guido Schawohl at +49 2306 709 1183.
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GIW Industries
Ph: 706/863-1011
Fax: 706/860-5897
5000 Wrightsboro Road
Grovetown, GA 30813
Web site: www.giwindustries.com
GIW, a leading manufacturer of highperformance, low-maintenance slurry
pumps, introduces the MDX (Mill Duty
Xtra Heavy) pump series for mill discharge applications. GIW pumps have
been used to pump phosphate rock in
Florida, oil sands in Canada and hundreds of different materials in between
-- everywhere in the world. GIW serves
industries such as mining and mineral
beneficiation, industrial process, dredge,
aggregate and coal preparation. Another innovation is the newly designed
GIW rubber impellers for maximum wear
resistance in heavier slurries. GIW
pumps & impellers – we are better by
design.
See Classified ad on page 116
See BG ad under: Pumps-Slurry
GUNDLACH Equipment Corporation
Ph: 618/233-7208
Fax: 618/641-6974
One Freedom Drive
Belleville, IL 62226 USA
E-mail:
[email protected]
Web site: www.gundlachcrushers.com
GUNDLACH Crushers manufactures a
full line of crushers specifically designed
for precise product sizing with fewer
fines and maximized yield for the coal industry and thermal power plants around
the world.
See Display ad on page 21
See BG ad under: Crushers
Gardner Paint Services
Ph: 423/928-8351
Fax: 423/928-0322
P.O. Box 5096
Johnson City, TN 37602
Website: www.gardnerpaint.com
Gardner Paint Services, Inc. is a full service painting and industrial cleaning contractor serving the coal industry since
1975. Our services include sandblasting
and the applicaton of paint and special
coatings, as well as a surface preparation service called ICE CLEANing.
See BG ad under: Painting/Prep Plant
Coatings
304-252-1918 • Beckley WV
304-284-0193 • Morgantown, WV
www.hscindustrial.com
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Richwood LST
Loading Station/Tailpiece
The Richwood LST Loading Station/Tailpiece is an integrated
combination unit for belt conveyor loading areas. The LST
combines the best design and quality components for
conveyor load zones from a single source including the heavyduty supporting structure, Combi-Pact® Impact Saddles,
RocKnocker™ Gravity V-Plow, Richwood Canoe Liners®,
Richwood Return Slide Idlers and the customer specified tail
pulley and bearings.
Single source design and build Richwood LST systems offer
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means more efficient design engineering for real world
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return plows, skirtboards, aprons, pulleys and bearings. Retrofits
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mismatches. Individual replacement parts must be specified,
ordered and received for the project. The project installation
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installed on the tailpiece ready to place in service.
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the time-tested impact-absorbing components already installed
and proven in difficult applications on five continents. The
patented design of Richwood’s Combi-Pact® Impact Saddle
prevents belt damage from material impact by providing a
continuous support surface across the conveyor belt. When
maintenance is necessary, the Impact Saddle design allows
quick and easy replacement of the UHMW wear surface from
beside the conveyor with the belt in place. A single clamp is
removed and the worn segments slide off to the side. The new
segments slide back on and the clamp is replaced. No other
manufacturer offers this simple and straightforward replacement
of wear parts. The type and spacing of Impact Saddles can be
varied to fit the specific application. All Combi-Pact® Impact
Saddles exceed CEMA standards for impact saddles.
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with Page number
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Scantech.................................................. 38 ............................www.scantech.com.au
SETCO Solid Tire and Rim ........................ 3 .......................... www.setcosolidtire.com
Steel Nation ............................................. 37 ..............www.steelnationsbuildings.com
Strata Mine Services. .............................. 10 ................. www.stratamineservices.com
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R.M. Wilson Co., Inc. ............................... 47 .................................www.rmwilson.com
RACO International ................................. 26 .................... www.racointernational.com
Richwood Industries ................................ 12 .................................www.richwood.com
20 0 0 -
Farnham & Pfile Eng. & Contractors ......................................115
1319 Macklind Ave.
EPI – The Liner Company
Skelly and Loy Engineering ...................................................116
Flagship Media Sponsor:
St Louis, MO 63110 Owned & Produced by:
Coal-Gen Booth #425
ENVIRONMENTAL LAB SERVICES / DRUG TESTING
at the
Ph: 800/655-4637
Web33site: www.ampulverizer.com
Analabs ....................................................................................
231/587-8020
Since 1908, American Pulverizer manuCarroll Technologies Group Fax:
FANS
9939 US Highway 131 South
factures and sells crushers including: ring
Providing
one-stop
shop
for
Paul’s Repair Shop, Inc .........................................................116
Mancelona, MI 49659
granulators, double roll crushers, sample
Web site: www.geomembrane.com
crushers, hammermills, trommels and frozen
FEEDERS / BREAKERS
• Safety
EPI
is
a full service Fabricator & Installer of
coal
crushers.
Cogar Manufacturing, Inc. .......................................................
27
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• Communications
flexible geomembrane liners for water
& waste
FILTERS/DISC
containment. EPI is proudly celebrating 30
ASGCO Manufacturing, Inc.
• Network Design
Peterson Filters ......................................................................
20
Years in Business!
Coal-Gen
Booth #1534
•
Power
and
Electrical
Needs
Ph: 800/344-4000
FULL STREAM ELEMENTAL ANALYSIS
Fax:
610/778-8991
CARROLL
TECHNOLOGIES
GROUP
Energy Technologies, Inc. ....................................................... 29
301 Gordon Street
Beaver, WV (304) 252-2381
WE
WELEAVE
LEAVEYOU
YOU
GAS INERTION PRODUCTS
www.carrolltechnologiesgroup.com
Allentown, PA 18102
SPOTLESS...
SPOTLESS...
Strata Mine Services ...............................................................
10 [email protected]
E-mail:
CARROLL ENGINEERING CO.
Web site: www.asgco.com
GENERAL/SPECIALIZED CONTRACTORS
Harlan, KY (606) 573-1000
Engineered Conveyor Products for Bulk Matewww.carrollengineeringco.com
Coalfield Services, Inc. ...........................................................116
rial Handling Systems
DELTA ELECTRIC Inc.
GROUND CONTROL TECHNOLOGY
Logan, WV (304) 752-4625
Jennmar Corporation/J-Lok .....................................................
19
Bucyrus
www.deltaelectricwv.com
Coal-Gen Booth #1718
Minova ................................................................................ 24-25
304.253.0777
Call (877) 9MINERS
One 304.253.0777
White Oak Trace
Ph: 414/768-4000
HDPE PIPE
E-mail:
OneBeckley,
White Oak
WV Trace
25801
1100 Milwaukee Ave.
Beckley, WV 25801
[email protected]
ISCO Industries ......................................................................117
www.engartinc.com
South Milwaukee, WI 53172
www.engartinc.com
INSURANCE SERVICES
Web site: www.bucyrus.com
P.O. Box 860
Bucyrus
American Mining Insurance Co...................................................
9 is a world leader in the design and
Engart, Inc.
131 Carroll Drive
manufacture of high-productivity surface and
MINE & TUNNELING PRODUCTS
Coal-Gen Booth #1340
Harlan, KY 40831
underground mining equipment used for minPh: 304/253-0777
Irwin Mine & Tunneling .............................................................
Email: [email protected]
ing 17
coal, copper, iron ore, oil sands and other
Fax: 304/253-0719
MINING MACHINERY
Web site: www.carrollengineeringco.com
minerals. Bucyrus also manufactures highOne White Oak Trace
quality
Carroll America’s largest privately owned elecBucyrus......................................................................................
5 OE parts and provides world-class
Beckley, WV 25802
support services for their machines.
Joy Mining Machinery .............................................................119
with over 800 customers. We provide mining
Web site: www.engartinc.com
CBP Engineering Corp.
companies with safety equipment, monitoring
Engart is located in Beckley West Virginia,
Rulmeca Corporation..............................................................117
Coal-Gen Booth #720
solutions, electrical and electronic products,
with regional engineering offices strategically
Ph: 800/468-1180
PAINTING/COATING SERVICES
located throughout the U.S. We are staffed
Fax: 724/229-1185
Beam Blasting, LLC ................................................................114
with fully trained field service representatives
185 Plumpton Ave.
Carroll Technologies Group
Gardner Paint Services ..........................................................114
to help solve airborne dust related problems.
Washington, PA 15301
Coal-Gen Booth #521
Engart has a fully stocked warehouse for one
PIPING AND PUMPING SYSTEMS
Ph: 304/252-2381
hundred percent parts availability, and service
Web23site: www.cbpengineering.com
Lee Supply Co., Inc. ................................................................
Fax: 304/252-2382
24 hours a day seven days a week.
CBP’s abrasion resistant lining materials are
PIPING/FABRICATION
P.O. Box 185
custom designed and installed in pipe, chutes
131 Blue Angel Lane
JABO Supply Corporation ......................................................117
FLEXCO
and other material handling equipment. LinBeaver, WV 25813
Coal-Gen Booth #833
PREPARATION PLANT DESIGNERS & BUILDERS
ings include, basalt, ceramic, silicon carbide,
Email:
Ph: 800/323-3444
rubber/ceramic composites, and AluminaLincoln Contracting & Equipment ............................................115
[email protected]
Fax: 630/971-1180
Plate trowelables. CBP provides design/build
SAFETY PRODUCTS / ROPE HANGERS
Web
site:
www.carrolltechnologiesgroup.com
2525 Wisconsin Avenue
controlled flow chutes through our new materiBoone Supply Co., Inc. .............................................................
Carroll America’s largest privately owned elec- Downers Grove, IL 60515
als 20
handling division.
SILOS
Web site: www.FLEXCO.com
with over 800 customers. We provide mining
Carroll Engineering Co.
Flexco makes products that enhance Belt
Borton, LC ..............................................................................117
companies with safety equipment, monitoring
Coal-Gen Booth #521
Conveyor Productivity including:
Marietta Silos ..........................................................................117
solutions,
electrical
and
electronic
products,
Ph: 606/573-1000
TIRES
VALVES
TAGGING
TRACKING
•Mechanical belt fastening
systems
Tunnel
Radio’s&NEW
Eastern location 490 Village Lane • Hazard, KY 41701
SILOS-STACKING TABLES
Fax: 606/573-4444
•Belt cleaners and plows1 air
San-Con Industries, Inc. .........................................................117
2 air-hydraulic-motor operated
PEACE
36
3 ball
TIRES
of MINE
4 blow-off
Setco Tire & Rim Assembly ........................................................ 3
5 butterfly
Visit Richwood at
Longwall USA Booth #819
LS
Kicking off the first day was a visit to
Plymouth Rubber’s booth. The laughs
from the Coal Prep “Mary Fink” joke car124
SOFT CORES
TUFFIL
TIRES
HardSteel, Inc.
Ph: 205/343-9100
Fax: 205/343-0073
P.O. Box 2266
Tuscaloosa, AL 35403
Web site: www.hardsteel.com
HardSteel is a manufacturer of chromium-carbide overlay plate and abrasion
HSC Industrial
resistant products. Complete line of
MSHA
Approved
wear plate products, complete
cutting,
Tunnel
forming, and fabrication services.
AR-Radio
Leaky Feeder Systems
400 and AR-500 distributor.
Belo Mine Supply........................................ 304/235-4977
Fairmont Supply Co. ................................... 800/245-9900
Industrial Service and Electronics, Inc. (1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8,
18, 19)..................................................... 270/830-0074
Jabo Supply Corp.(1-20) ............................ 800/334-5226
Lee Supply Co. (1-11, 13, 16, 17, 19, 20)... 800/353-3747
PEBCO, Inc. (10, 12) .................................. 270/442-1996
Shoap Process Equipment Inc. (6, 16, 18) . 804/897-9260
Weir Minerals North America (13) .............. 608/221-2261
United Central Industrial Supply .................276/466-0511
VARIABLE FREQUENCY DRIVES
Industrial Service and Electronics, ............. 270/830-0074
Rezplast Manufacturing .............................. 705/673-3824
United Central Industrial Supply Co ............276/466-0511
VENTILATION BRATTICE
TRANSFORMERS
TESTERS
1 carbon-monoxide
2 circuit-breaker
3 electrical-relay
4 electrical tool
5 ground resistant
6 insulation
7 rail-bond
8 voltage
Line Power.................................................. 276/466-8200
TUNNELS AND RETAINING WALLS
Camber Corp .............................................. 724/933-6040
Coalfield Services, Inc. ............................... 276/228-3167
Dywidag-Systems International .................. 801/973-7169
Bradford Stuart Industries (2) ..................... 276/688-4921
Fairmont Supply Co. ................................... 800/245-9900
Logi-Tec, Inc. (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8) ................. 724/337-0407
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1-800-691-6601
• Coal Show Coverage Including “Mine’ing Our Business,”
Show Comments and Pictorial Layout.
Structural Steel Fabrication
sTeel arches,
lagging and
accessories
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www.cambergroup.com
Dave Levy of Levy MG stopped by to
talk shop. Dave is a big supporter of
Coal People Magazine and has been
working with clients in the mining industry for 28 years, offering full service
marketing solutions ranging from ad design, sales literature and trade shows
to Web site development. Levy MG and
CPM will be collaborating efforts to better
serve customers on-line. The Web site
will continue to take that extra step offering a number of complimentary added
values for customers who advertise in
print. Look for your monthly newsletter
and advertising promotions. Visit www.
coalpeople.com.
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(l to r): Bill Tate, John Smyth, Lou Stojack,
Bob Jelinek, Luis de Leon, Allen Morefield
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Richwood Rubber Canoe Liners replace conventional
skirtboards to provide long-term wear and sealing surfaces
for the containment area in a single modular component. The
Canoe Liners bolt directly to the supporting structure and feature
beveled edges to seal troughed conveyors at the belt surface.
They are adjustable for wear and no other skirtboard elements
are needed. The Canoe Liners are available in thicknesses
from 1-1/2” up to six inches and can be specified with ceramic
dowels and bevels for high-wear applications.
The Richwood LST provides tailpiece components and
structure from a single source ready to install without the
delays associated with retrofits. After the installation, Richwood
service ensures your long-term satisfaction.
Richwood is a primary manufacturer of heavy duty conveyor
components for bulk belt conveyors. Richwood serves the coal
industry as well as other mining industries including gold, silver,
copper and iron ore and aggregate. Contact Richwood at
304-525-5436 or e-mail: [email protected].
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underground/portable
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HSC Industrial
equipment, belt system products including the 25Mr Continuous Miner, 488D
Un-A-Trac scoop, idler rolls, scraper system, a combination drive, and belt buddy.
After approaching the large group and
asking for a photo including Executive
Vice President Bill Tate, Robert (Bob)
Jelinek, vice president sales & integration US & Mexico, was gracious enough
to organize the busy men for a photo.
And, did we mention he’s quite the host,
thanks for the turkey sandwich!
6 check
7 control
8 diaphragm
9 foot
10 gate
11 globe
12 hydraulic
13 knife gate
14 needle
15 orifice
16 pinch
17 plug
18 pump
19 relief
20 slurry
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Richwood Return Slide Idlers replace conventional return idlers
with the same high-quality wear surface as the Combi-Pact®
Impact Saddle to support the belt on the return side of the
tailpiece. Return Slide Idler wear surface is also replaced from
the side of the conveyor, eliminating the difficulty of replacement
of frozen return rollers in the close quarters of the tailpiece.
TIRES
Reliable wireless
communications
and tracking for the
underground miner
MSHA and West Virginia Safety approved
(l to r) Jim Wood - RM Wilson Co., Dave Ullom - RM Wilson Co.,
Trace Hennesy - Walter Energy, Steve Mercer - RM Wilson Co.,
Bruce Kiger - RM Wilson Co., Bobby Gillespie - SETCO
ried well into the Bluefield Coal Show.
Jack Fink of Plymouth Rubber so cleverly made arrangements for his associates
to sport name tags with female names.
We are not sure if it
worked, but it created a lot of laughs.
We had the pleasure of working
with Sergio Pineiro of Plymouth
Rubber on the development of his
full page ad in the
Sept. issue. Alan
Terranova
has
Sergio Pineiro
been working with
Sergio on his advertising schedule and
they are anxious to start advertising and
running articles. They were showcasing
the long awaited GLF2 Jacket Repair
Wrap.
delicious treat. Now we know where Bobby G. gets his cooking talent. We’re talking “major league” good.
Alan and Christina followed their noses
to savor some great grilled food at the
Setco/RM Wilson booth. The grilled pork
chops and peppers were delicious. Bob
Gillispie, truly in his glory, sat and chatted for a bit. Bob said that when he was
checking in at registration, some folks
commented that they saw SETCO and
RM Wilson’s article in Coal People’s September issue and will be by to get some
food. The article featured an invitation
for showgoers to come and enjoy grilled
food and drinks.
After talking with Bill, the two of them
gravitated toward nearby Bob Gillespie
and Steve Mercer to thank them for the
food they sent over the day before. Bob
and Steve insisted they again partake
in the grilled delights. After a weak “no
thanks” the two gave in and just had to
have a grilled sausage, all brown and grill
striped… too much temptation. And was
it ever good. This booth is a show highlight!
Steve Mercer wrapped up a plate of
stuffed peppers for Alan and Christina to
take to Al Skinner. He wanted to make
sure Al got his share because they were
going fast! Bobby’s mother spent a lot of
time making her special stuffed peppers.
Bobby said that she wanted to know if 95
would be enough. He laughed and told
her 500 wouldn’t be enough. But, it would
have to be first come first served on the
• PreP PlanTs
• conveyors
• cusToM FabricaTion
& design
(800) 894-4559
www.cambergroup.com
Becker / SMC
Justin Tidd, Alvin Grose, David Gallaher and Jon McCullough
Logan Corp.
Gary Miller, Ron Sparks and Scott White
Tunnels
&
reTaining Walls
(800) 894-4559
www.cambergroup.com
The following day, Al and Alan visited Bill
Grisanti (left) of FLEXCO who was ecstatic over his picture on the CPM Show
Supplement cover. He couldn’t thank us
enough. What a good feeling.
Strata Products (USA) displayed a selection of their roof support products. Strata
Safety Products introduced new partnerships with NL Technologies (NLT) and
Turanair® Systems. Strata Mine Services now offers a collection of injection resins
and expanding foams from BASF.
J & R Manufacturing
Steve Slate & Theresa Barringer
Rel-Tek
Al Ketler
LaMarche
John Pawula, Judy La Marche, Jim Darty and Bob Schuelke
Good Year
Jeff Maranville
Now stuffed like the sausage just eaten,
Al and Alan continued on with visits, stop-
Brady Mining
Marc Medersitzki, Sean Cox and Russ Myers
JADCO
Ray Tedford and Scott Rife
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PRODUCT
news 2011
GIW Industries, Grovetown, GA,
announces its new High Volume
Froth (HVP) pump, able to pump froth
without air locking. The HVF provides
continuous operation without shutdown
or operator intervention.
The new
hydraulic design removes air from the
impeller eye while the pump is running,
so the operator can keep the process
moving and improve efficiency.
The GIW HVF can be retrofitted into
many existing froth applications. The
pump’s de-aeration system includes a
GIW patent-pending vented impeller and
airlock venting. This helps to eliminate
sump overflow due to pump airlock;
reduce downtime; and allow water use
to be restricted to the bare minimum.
Fewer pumps are required for less capital
expense, requiring less water and power
usage.
GIW HVF pump has been fully tested
on froth and viscous liquids. The pump
exceeded expectations at a large
phosphate company in Finland. The
company’s existing pumps were not able
to provide the required flow and were
air locking at only 1/3 process design
capacity. After installing GIW’s HVF
pump, the company achieved a flow of
415 m3/hr.
Designed for air-entrained slurries,
the pump can be used in phosphate
mining, hard rock mining and oil
sands. Offers improved efficiency and
is environmentally friendly and costeffective. Visit www.giwindustries.com or
call Pam Welty at 706/863-1011.
Eriez, Erie, PA, offers experience and
products designed for apron feeder
applications such as the SER series
of large rectangular core suspended
electromagnets, specifically engineered
for 84 to 150-inch wide conveyor belts
and feeders used to remove large,
unwanted tramp metal objects in hard
rock and coal.
In most applications,
electromagnets are suspended 3 to 4
inches over the top of the material burden
and are mounted in one of two positions:
magnet over material leaving the head
pulley or magnet over the conveyor belt
prior to the head pulley. At conveyor belt
speeds of less than 350 fpm or for apron
feeder applications, the suspended
trajectory of the material is minimal and
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becomes near vertical.
3743.
Call 888/300-
POLARIS CORDLESS CAP LAMP
RECEIVES MSHA APPROVAL
Strata Safety Products announces
that the Northern Light Polaris is the
first cordless cap lamp to be approved
by the US Mine Safety and Health
Administration (MSHA).
Specifically
designed for the mining environment,
the Polaris Cap lamp is an ultra-bright
headpiece with a high-capacity lithium
ion battery. The impact, dust and water
resistant cap lamp produces 3,500 Lux
output for more than 12 hours.
The Polaris can be mounted on any
mining or construction hard-hat with a
fixed or adjustable clip, and headbands,
lanyards, neck straps and magnet
mounting options are available. Benefits
of Polaris include: No cords; only 6
ounces; lowest cost of ownership – low
maintenance, no bulb replacement; preset beam; discharge time – less than 12
hours; convenient car charger available;
and LED primary and secondary.
The Polaris cap lamp adds to Strata
Safety’s line of advanced products
designed to improve miners’ safety, such
as StrataCommTrac, the completely
wireless communications and tracking
systems and HazardAvert, a proximity
detection and collision avoidance
systems.
Scientific Dust Collectors (SDC), Alsip,
IL, has been issued two patents by the
US Patent Office that improves upon
the existing supersonic nozzle based
cleaning technology systems for reverse
pulse jet dust collectors.
Provides
even more induced cleaning air into
the filter media. Special nozzle design
allows for SDC’s collectors to operate
successfully at lower compressed air
rates, saving compressed air usage.
Can be retrofitted to most other generic
baghouse collectors.
Call Michael
Gerardi at 708/597-7090.
Larson Electronics, Kemp, TX,
introduces the EPSLED-80 Class 1
Division 1 and Class 2 Division 1 LED
strobe light, featuring a 7 watt LED bulb
that pulses at 4Hz. Explosion proof LED
beacon can be installed via pendant,
ceiling and wall mount configurations.
Flashes 4 times per second and is
available in white, red, blue, amber
or green. Weighs 9 pounds and is 15
inches tall ad 7.25 inches diameter. Call
Rob Bresnahan at 800/369-6671.
TorcUP, Easton, PA, introduces the
RP-1000E6
fastener,
specifically
designed for the commercial truck bus
and mass transit industries. Achieves
a non-impacting, accurate torque (+- 5
percent accuracy). A slim 6” integral
nose extension is able to reach recessed
wheel lug nut applications, and has an
infinite range of torque output from 2501000 Ft/lbs. Call 610/250-5800.
Michelin Earthmover introduces the
MICHELIN XDR 2 tire, for severe mining
and quarry applications.
Designed
for rigid dump trucks and offers up
to 20 percent more tread life than its
predecessor. Available in a 27R49 size.
Additional sizes will be available later
this year. Features up to a 10 percent
thicker under-thread between the
protective pies and tread base for better
cut and impact resistance. Combines
full-depth blocks, a 13 percent larger
central lug and the new non-directional
design to provide increased protection
against aggressions and cut separations.
Incorporates Michelin’s C2 Technology
in the casing to provide an overall cooler
operating temperature. Call Amy Friess
at 864/458-6152.
Ergodyne, St. Paul, MN, introduces
SHAX Portable Work Shelters –
including a Pop-Up Series (6000 Utility
10’X10’ Tent and 6020 Lightweight
10’X10’ Tent) as well as a Seating Series
(6030 Stool, 6040 Stool with Back, and
6060 Armchair). Offer instant shelter and
durable features like powder-coated steel
frames and a rugged polyester shell with
PU and UV coatings. Ergodyne has also
launched the GloWear 8940 PowerCap,
a baseball-style cap that uses four stateof-the-art LEDS. Call Lindsay Herda at
651/642-5862.
Larson Electronics’ Magnalight.com
announces the addition of explosion
proof LED Light Tripod to its lineup.
The EPL-TP-l x150LED-100 provides
8,000 square feet of work area coverage
with 10,000 lumens of light output. Easy
to maneuver lighting package. Suitable
for confined spaces. Visit Magnalight.
com.
LADD Industries Inc., Kettering, OH,
announces the HDP Series C038
modification to the Deutsch Industrial
HDP product line. Features multiple pin
count arrangements specifically designed
for environments where moisture, dirt and
rough terrain can contaminate or damage
electrical connections. Modification is a
seven-cavity arrangement that accepts
four size 16 contacts rated for 13 amps
each and three size 4 contacts rated
for 100 amps each at 125 degrees C
continuous. Call 800/223-1236.
RMT Equipment, Montreal, QC,
introduces the RMT-XW in-motion
grapple scale system that combines
wireless data communication and control
with a new load-sensing technology.
Improves accuracy of load measurements
to within 0 +- 3 percent of true weight,
while reducing installation and setup time
to as little as two hours. Requires no
configuration time. Installation is simple.
Ensures higher reliability in severe-duty
applications.
Call Mark Lefebvre at
800/648-8132.
Rexnord Industries, Milwaukee, WI,
announces the Falk V-Class, a new
line of gear drives designed for maximum
uptime and durable performance.
Incorporates the latest advances in
materials
technology,
engineering
design, and manufacturing processes to
produce a tough, reliable gearbox. These
advancements, coupled with innovative
mounting and cooling accessories,
provide a reliable, sustainable gearbox.
Features are built in for maximum uptime
in a smaller drive at a lower total cost.
Call Peter Budney at 414/643-3000.
Bridgestone Americas Off Road Tie,
a division of Bridgestone Americas
Tire Operations, LLC, Nashville, TN,
introduces an enhanced line of larger
loader tires for the mining, quarry and
coal industries in North America. The
45/65-45 DuraLoad off road tire features
a new flatter crown radius for larger,
more even footprint pressure and less
heat generation leading to longer tire
life. Design allows for easier mounting
and includes shoulder tie bars. Available
in L4 and L5 designs, beginning with the
45/64-45 LS NS. Contact Becky Dotson
at 615/780-3317.
Martin Engineering, Neponset, IL,
introduces the EVOR Conveyor
Godwin Pumps Gives to the Boys and
Girls Clubs of Gloucester County, NJ
Godwin Pumps, manufacturer of the DriPrime® automatic self-priming, dry-running
pump is pleased to make a donation to the
Boys & Girls Clubs of Gloucester County.
The Boys & Girls Clubs offer services to all
youth aged 6 to 18, throughout Gloucester
County, New Jersey. Their mission
statement is “to inspire and enable all
young people, especially those that need
us the most, to reach their full potential
as productive, responsible, caring adults.” We are happy to be able to give to our
community. This donation will further efforts to inspire and support young people to
reach their potential and grow into the work force.
Said Godwin Pumps president, Michel Bakhos, “As a large employer in Gloucester
County, we are thankful to be in a position to support our surrounding community. This
donation is one way we are able to show that support. Philanthropy and outreach are
very important to our company, and we look forward to continued involvement with
organizations like the Boys & Girls Clubs.”
Guards that provide a simple, flexible
and cost-effective solution to conveyor
guarding, with component designs to help
keep personnel safe by restricting access
to moving parts and pinch points. The
new conveyor guards are self-supporting
and feature a rugged modular design that
installs on supplied angle iron structure,
eliminating the need to attach directly to
conveyor equipment. Integrated handles
reduce the number of parts and tools
required. Guards conform to OSHA
29 CFR 1910.217 when installed with
a minimum of 5.50 inches of clearance
between the guard opening and hazard.
Call Rick Felde at 503/534-0800.
RMT Equipment Inc., Laval, QC
Canada, introduces TRACKVISION
Safety
Camera
Systems
that
provide 360 degrees of clear vision in
rugged packages designed to ensure
24/7 dependability in severe-duty
environments. TRACKVISION allows
operators of wheel loaders, excavators,
material handlers; log loaders, truck and
scrapers maneuver more confidently
and more quickly in congested areas,
increasing productivity.
Call Marc
Lefebvre at 800/648-8132.
Trolex Ltd, Stockport, Cheshire,
announces the Sentro 1, a new
technology for stand-alone single gas
safety monitoring in mining, tunneling
and industrial applications, featuring
intelligent plug-in gas modules. The
new eModules store all the necessary
data about its type identification, sensing
range and specific calibration.
The
eModules are pre-calibrated with a
standardized output signal for convenient
replacement and servicing. Call Laura
Bradshaw at 0161 483 1435.
Rexnord Industries, Milwaukee, WI,
announces the Falk V-Class, a new line
of gear drives designed for maximum
uptime and durable performance.
Incorporates
advanced
gearing,
optimized through the latest materials
and technologies, to provide maximum
performance under load.
Features
exclusive Magnum no-leak seals with
oil drain backs and purgeable grease
chamber.
An optional, eco-friendly
DuraPlate cooling system requires no
water or electricity to operate. Call Peter
Budney at 414/643-3000.
Superior Industries, Morris, MN,
has extended its line of Chevron
wing pulleys, and is now building and
distributing a style rated for CEMA
construction. CEMA applications are
often light duty, portable conveyors that
make infrequent starts and stops. ANSI
B105.1 defines loads, dimensions and
crown design standards.
Designed
continue
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Product news continued
to deflect material and prevent it from
lodging better than standard wing pulleys.
Call Corey Poppe at 320/589-7085.
resources markets. As a result of the
investment, Macquarie will become a
material shareholder in MST.
Intercomp Company, Minneapolis,
MN, announces the PT300 Portable
Wheel Load Scale is available with
RFX Wireless Weighing as standard
equipment. Lightweight and accurate,
the all-aluminum design is available in
capacities up to 20,000 lbs. Ideal for
uneven surfaces and withstands most
weather conditions.
Uses standard
alkaline batteries that last up to 300
hours and encryption ensure secure
wireless connection. Call 800/328-3336
MST is a market leader in digital wireless
network services and applications for
the global resources sector. MST’s
intrinsically safe (IS) VOIP MinePhone
which runs on the MST digital IMPACT
network product range, enables twoway wireless VOIP communications,
wireless miner tracking and has allowed
mines to streamline and centralise
numerous systems onto a single digital
platform, revolutionising underground
communications. The MST digital
solution provides an enhanced level of
safety for miners and strong productivity
improvements. The devices are approved
by regulators for use in underground coal
mines in the USA, Australia, South Africa
and China and underground hard rock
and surface applications globally.
Atlas Copco, Commerce City, CO,
introduces the XATS 1050 CD7
compressor, featuring a new engine,
air-end, cooling fan and controller.
Engine complies with the new emission
standards. The air-end is designed
to operate more efficiently than its
predecessors. Preliminary tests indicate
it will reduce fuel consumption, with
an improved variable-speed cooling
fan designed to run only as needed.
Emission control is built in to the new
controller. Also, Atlas Copco has added
the Terranox DTH (down-the-hole)
hammer to its package of geotechnical
drilling equipment. Call Christina Fisher
at 303/253-6922.
Metabo Corporation, West Chester,
PA, introduces a new large angle
grinder to its Metabo Metal Masters
series. The W26-230 delivers more
power and longer run time. Features a
newly designed diagonal fan that pulls air
across the motor for optimized airflow and
cooler operation. Ideal for the prolonged
cutting and grinding large areas of metal
safely and efficiently. Equipped with a
9” wheel, delivers 159 inch-lbs of torque
and a no-load speed of 6,600 rpm. Has
a long-lasting 15A motor with 2,400 W
of power and 4.7 hp. Call Terry Tuerk at
800/638-2264.
Mine Site Technologies raises
growth capital to support global
expansion and increased customer
service offering
Mine Site Technologies (“MST”), a
market leader in mining communication
networks and applications, has raised
growth capital from Macquarie Capital
(“Macquarie”) to further its significant
expansion in the global mining and
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The investment will enable MST to
further reinforce its customer service
offering in its current core markets of
Australia, the United States and Canada
and enable further expansion into rapidly
growing resources markets including
Africa, South America and China. MST
has experienced strong growth in recent
years and the investment from Macquarie
will support the next phase of MST’s
continued international and product
expansion.
“Macquarie’s investment in MST gives
us great confidence in being able to truly
position ourselves as the leading global
OEM of network and communications
infrastructure for the world’s largest
mining organizations. It will enable us
to continue to roll out our proven sales
and service support infrastructure in key
markets and expand our sales capabilities
to current and new customers across the
globe.” said Gary Zamel, Founder and
Managing Director of MST.
MST will pursue an expansion strategy
that incorporates both organic investment
into its current core markets and potential
acquisitions to build market presence,
technology innovation and resource
capabilities over the coming twelve to
twenty four months.
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Martin Engineering offers online
training to improve conveyor
operating efficiency
Martin Engineering has now added
an online course to its library of
FOUNDATIONS™ Training programs that
teach personnel to make the operation
and maintenance of belt conveyors
cleaner, safer, and more productive.
The company is expanding its workshop
series into three customizable training
programs, with the Operations &
Maintenance Seminar available as an
online course. The seminar takes an
in-depth look at methods to improve
the safety, performance, and payback
of belt conveyors by controlling fugitive
material and improving system efficiency.
This online training is ideal for any
personnel concerned with operating and
maintaining belt conveyor systems.
Topics of discussion include material
handling basics, conveyor safety,
belt alignment, belt cleaning, transfer
point improvement, belts and splices,
leading edge technologies, and dust
management.
After studying these
topics, staff and operations will benefit by
improving safety, justifying and validating
investments, and increasing performance
and profitability.
Composed of nine 1- to 2-hour course
modules with internet-based quizzes,
the online course is designed to suit
companies and personnel with difficulty
in scheduling and attending a full-day live
seminar. A certificate of completion will
be awarded upon correctly completing all
course materials.
As with the live seminars, this online
training draws material from Martin
Engineering’s
reference
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PIPING / FabRICaTION
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Rulmeca Corporation............................... 56 ........................... www.rulmecacorp.com
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Extension Bolts
Stelpipe Bolts
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Filters
Cable Bolts
Friction Stabilizers &
Corp.
Expandable Bolts
Ring Granulators
Trusses & Slings
Fiberglass Bolts
Reversible
Resins &
Cement Cartridges
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Founded in 1975, American Mine Research, Inc. is the leading manufacturer
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See BG Ads under: Communications
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Category Listings
ABRASION-RESISTANT MATERIALS
ADHESIVES
AIR COMPRESSORS
Atlas Copco Construction Eqpt. LLC .......... 303/287-8822
EVAPAR ..................................................... 812/867-9900
Irwin Mine and Tunneling Supply................ 724/864-8900
Logan Corp. ................................................ 800/340-8801
S & S Urethene........................................... 800/237-6336
Wallace Diesel Mining Equipment .............. 618/268-4446
Whayne Supply Co ..................................... 502/774-4441
AIR CONDITIONING-MINING EQUIPMENT
Electric Motor Service................................. 800/697-6070
Justice Glass & Supply Co., Inc. ................ 800/624-3420
Pillar Innovations ........................................ 304/284-0916
Mountaineer Thermo King .......................... 304/744-7344
Hausner Hard-Chrome, Inc. (3, 4, 6) .......... 270/713-8224
Innovative Conveyor Technology, LLC (5) .. 502/957-1998
JADCO, Inc. (2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8) ...................... 724/452-5252
Lee Supply Co. (6, 7, 8).............................. 800/353-3747
Logan Corp. (7) .......................................... 800/340-8801
Master Bond, Inc. (3) .................................. 201/343-8983
Naylor Pipe Co. (8) ..................................... 773/721-9400
Richwood (2, 5) .......................................... 304/525-5436
S & S Urethene (1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8) ............. 800/237-6336
United Central Industrial Supply Co. (2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8) .......
.................................................................276/466-0511
Wear-Concepts, Inc. ................................... 816/587-1923
or call (800) 235-5188
Deadline May 13
ACTUATORS AND SYSTEMS
Lisa Roper (864) 278-8227
Chuck Roper (864) 546-8978
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Brookville Equipment Corp.
Ph: 814/849-2000
Fax: 814/849-2010
175 Evans Street
Brookville, PA 15825
E-mail:
[email protected]
Web site: www.BrookvilleEquipment.com
Brookville Equipment Corporation manufactures a wide variety of rail-mounted
and rubber-tired haulage equipment for
underground coal mining, hard rock and
precious metal mining, tunnel construction, industrial rail car switching, and
mass transit applications worldwide. Our
rail-mounted locomotives, personnel carriers, combination units, and specialty
vehicles are available in diesel, battery,
trolley, or battery/trolley. Rubber-tired
equipment, rigid or articulated, is available in diesel or battery powered. BECs
personnel carriers have a 4-18 person
capacity, haulage tractors weigh 8-50
tons, rail-mounted locomotives weigh
4-45 tons, and scoops have a 4.5 yd
(heaped) bucket capacity.
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Borton, LC
Ph: 620/669-8211
Fax: 620/662-3225
200 East First Ave.
Hutchinson, KS 67501
Web site: www.borton.biz
Design and engineering firm, since
1926, specializing in slip form construction. Expertise in barge, rail, and truck
loadouts, large conveying systems, coal,
cement and grain facilities. Chimneys,
stacks, mechanical and structural
installation. Continental United States,
international experience.
See BG ad under: Conveyor/Equipment Installation
1 basalt
2 ceramic
3 coatings
4 hard-surfacing
5 rubber-urethane
6 stainless steel
7 steel
8 steel piping
9 trowelon
ABC Industries, Inc. (5) .............................. 574/267-5166
Argonics, Inc. (5) ........................................ 800/991-2746
CBP Engineering .........................................800/468-1180
C.U.E., Inc. (5) ............................................ 800/283-4621
Ceramic Technology, Inc. (2, 5, 6, 7, 8) ...... 276/964-6724
Classic Conveyor Components (2-8).......... 724/459-5261
Columbia Steel Casting Co. (7) .................. 800/547-9471
Corrosion Engineering (5) .......................... 412/849-0363
DEVCON (3) ............................................... 800/933-8266
Duraline LLC (2, 3, 9) ................................. 412/429-0335
Hardsteel, Inc. (4, 7) ................................... 205/343-9100
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Innovative Conveyor Technology, LLC ....... 502/957-1998
Jabo Supply Corp. ...................................... 800/334-5226
Kerry Company, Inc., The ........................... 412/486-3388
RACO International .................................... 412/835-5744
United Central Industrial Supply Company..276/466-0511
ADAPTERS & VALVES
Belo Mine Supply........................................ 304/235-4977
Ceramic Technology, Inc. ........................... 276/964-6724
Lee Supply Co. ........................................... 800/353-3747
Motion Industries .........................................205/951-1178
ADHESIVES
Ceramic Technology, Inc. ........................... 276/964-6724
Convenience Products ............................... 800/325-6180
Duraline LLC............................................... 412/429-0335
S & S Urethene........................................... 800/237-6336
AIR CONDITIONING PARTS & SERVICE
ABC Industries, Inc. .................................... 574/267-5166
Justice Glass & Supply Co., Inc. ................ 800/624-3420
ALTERNATORS
AMMETERS
Logi-Tec, Inc. .............................................. 724/337-0407
Mine & Process Service, Inc....................... 800/852-6529
ANALYZERS
1 ash - coal
2 BTU & moisture
3 elemental
4 on-line
5 slurry
6 sulfur
7 total elements
Precision Samplers, Inc. ............................ 304/744-5534
Scantech..................................................... 412/999-0565
ANEMOMETERS
Logi-Tec, Inc. .............................................. 724/337-0407
Mine & Process Service, Inc....................... 800/852-6529
Rel-Tek Corporation.................................... 800/783-9228
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