Western Coal Development Monitoring System: A Survey of Coal Mining Capacity in the West

摘要

The Western Coal Development Monitoring System is a periodic survey of all known operators of existing and planned large (200,000 tons or more annual production) coal mines in the Western United States. The purpose of the survey is to track progress and changes in productive capacity. Specifically, the survey seeks estimates of current and future productive capacity, of amounts of coal currently under contract, and of potential constraints to higher production. The report identifies 95 current western mines in operation and a planned total of 170 mines in 1988. Fourteen existing mines are expected to be mined out or abandoned by 1988. The total 1988 indicated capacity of 610 million tons for surveyed states is approximately 3.5 times the actual 1978 production of 179 million tons. (ERA citation 05:014731)