Why This Talk?

9/27/00

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Table of Contents

Coal ProductionCharleston Sunday Gazette-Mail

WV Coal Generalizations

Appalachian Mining Practices

Room and Pillar Mine

Room and Pillar Mine (UMWA)

Long Wall Mining

Active Long-Wall Face

East Tennessee: Multiple Seams, Contour Strip Mines

East Tennessee Strip Mine

Surface-Mine Reclamation

Reclamation Ziggurat

Mountain-Top Mines in WV

Valley Fill Linked to Mountain-Top Removal

Mountain-Top Removal & Valley Fill, Fayette Co. WV

Mountain-Top Removal Valley Fill Under Construction

http://www.geocities.com/~rollinghills/valleys.html

Completed Durable Rock Valley Fill

Valley Fillwith Stepped Terrace Morphology

Image From Charleston Sunday Gazette Mail

Scale (from Ward, 1998)

Scale (from Ward, 1998)

Chief U.S. District Judge Haden20 October 1999

Chief U.S. District Judge Haden October 1999, Continued

Mountain-Top Removal Valley Fill Issues

Economic and Social Impacts+

Economic and Social Impacts-

Appropriate Comparisons

Post-Mining Stream Flow

Pre-Mining Hydrology

Flood Hydrology

Slope Stability

Author: Steve Kite

Email: jkite@wvu.edu

Home Page: http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/teaching.htm