So theres been lots of speculation about whats going on with the exploratory drilling out along the Donaldson Stretch...

It looks like a Canadian company called Ember Clear http://www.emberclear.com/ wants to put in a coal gasification plant that uses a technology developed in China.... http://www.emberclear.com/technologyv2.html

They plan to mine anthracite near Good Springs to gasify in their gasification plant. The company has drilled a handful of exploratory holes to get an idea of how much anthracite is down in the basin. Engineering consultants from down in Kentucky wrote a really nice report about their preliminary findings.....

http://www.emberclear.com/NI_43-101_Res ... -25-11.pdf

It will be interesting to keep an eye on the project as it progresses. Press releases can be found at:

http://www.emberclear.com/PressReleases.html

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-Thou shalt not little vein-

now, thats interesting! would be cool to see this happen and see a large anty mine again!

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Come over to the Dark Side....... We have Cookies!

Ya, that would be great to see. King coal make a comeback.

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Scott K
"Watch Your Top"

Wouldn't that be something!

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jdr

i think paul was talking about this during miner training right john? or at least something similar?

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Dunder Mifflin, the people persons paper people.

scam..... you read the thing, and they tell you everything besides how much money it would cost, and how much money you would make, and the piece of property is so narrow, and right ontop of the deepest coal veins

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running a dragline is like fishing for salmon - according to E.Bella

its a preliminary investigation, bella.... the coal is not even a "resource" at this point

i get the feeling that there may be some tax dollars subsidizing some portion of this, so, even if this project is nearly impossible, all we need you to do at this point is to keep paying those taxes!!

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-Thou shalt not little vein-

but still.......anyways, I was talkin to Grayson, and there maybe another report done on this by a different company. Or something similar, to a different project in the anthracite region

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running a dragline is like fishing for salmon - according to E.Bella