Key Highlights
- Will service local miners
- Located within 1 hour drive of property
- Capacity of 240,000 tons per month
- Bulk shipments allow for a sale price of up to $160/ton
- $95/ton acquisition cost of coal
- Revenue of $14.64 mil per mo. with EBT of $3.6 mil at 100% capacity
- Revenue of $7.32 mil per mo. with EBT of $1.8 mil at 50% capacity
- Fully permitted with plant design and construction crew in place
- Estimated ,me to completion 9 month
- Total cost of $22.95 million
- Payback expected in less than 13 months from breaking ground and opera,ng at 50% capacity
- Payback in less than 2.5 years from breaking ground and operating at only 25% capacity
Overview
Triple 7 has executed a joint venture option agreement to obtain a 50% interest in a proposed triple-crushing wash plant facility, also known as a coal handling/preparation plant, prep plant, or tipple plant. This agreement effectively gives the Company its own internal wash plant and train load-out facility, which allows the Company to access the best coal prices both domestically and internationally. The wash plant would also service local miners by acquiring their coal, washing it and selling it alongside the Company’s production. The wash plant has the capacity to wash up to 240,000 tons per month, an estimated $1.8 million in net profits to the Company.
Operations
The wash plant is a facility that washes coal off soil and rock, crushes it into graded sized chunks (sorting), stockpiles grades preparing it for transport to market, and loads coal into rail cars. The more of this waste material that can be removed from coal, the lower its total ash content, the greater its market value and the lower its transportation costs. The coal delivered from the mine to the wash plant is called run-of-mine, or RoM coal, delivered with large variations in production rate of tons per hour (tph).
Using a RoM stockpile enables the wash plant to be fed coal at a lower, constant rate. The washability characteristics of a coal reserve are determined by liberation data on the raw coal sample. Liberation is the amount of physical breakage required to separate material of different material densities. Low density material is clean coal, whereas high density material is rock. Crushing reduces the overall size of the RoM coal so that it can be easily handled and processed within the wash plant.
Screens in screening plants are used to group process particles into ranges by size. These size ranges are also called grades. Dewatering screens are used to remove water from the product.
The wash plant team has over 100 years of combined experience, with an extensive history of development, construction and operation of coal processing/wash plants in the Eastern coal producing states. Experience ranges in all areas of mining operations, advanced degrees in mining technology and surveying. The team has previous experience building and operating different coal preparation plants with tons per hour ranging from 300 to 2600 tph.
Coal Prep Plant Elevations
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West Virginia Coal
West Virginia is the nations 2nd largest coal producing state with recoverable coal reserves estimated at more than 51 billion tons in 2016
There are over 280 companies and 456 mines producing more than 99 million tons of coal a year
McDowell County was ranked as the 6th largest surface mine producer and 13th largest underground mine producer having produced a combined 2.69 million tons in 2015
It has 84 operating mines and an estimated 1.6 billion of recoverable coal reserves
West Virginia coal is used extensively by domestic utility companies to produce electricity
Electric power utilities are the largest coal consumers in the nation, with 2/3rd of all coal production being used by utilities or smaller industrial installations to generate electricity and steam
The steel industry is the second largest coal user in the U.S.
About 80 million tons of coal are used each year to make coke an essential element in the steel making process
About two thirds of a ton of coal is needed to produce a ton of steel
West Virginia has some of the best metallurgical coal found anywhere in the world and it constitutes about 40% of West Virginia’s annual production
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