The protesters, who also included NASA climate scientist James E . Hansen, were charged with obstructing officers and impeding traffic after they sat in the middle of State Route 3 outside Massey Energy's Goals Coal preparation plant, the " The Charleston Gazette " reported.
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He has been Regional Editor of the " International Journal of Minerals Engineering, " and a member of the editorial boards of the " International Journal of Mineral Processing ", the " International Journal of Coal Preparation ", the " Transactions " of the Mining.
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MCHM is not used in the majority of West Virginia's coal preparation plants, because it is only used to produce coal for metallurgical purposes, a type of coal known as " coking coal " and most West Virginia plants process coal that is to be used for the generation of electricity.
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With 90 % of combined total production for electricity generation, a ?0, 000 surface rapid loading system at the Bickershaw coal preparation plant enabled a train of 45 wagons, each capable of holding 30 tons of coal, to be loaded with 1350 tons of coal in less than one and a half hours.
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Due to the number of loading points at the various Coal & Allied operations that would have needed converting as they were designed accept non-air type wagons only, the company decided to build a " Unit Train Loading System " at the Hexham Coal Preparation Plant and load all of the company's export coal through this system.
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DEVCO also built a large coal preparation and wash plant at Victoria Junction, as well as new international shipping piers on Sydney Harbour, replacing the antiquated export piers inherited from DOSCO . With federal government financing, DEVCO was in expansion mode and with the high international prices for coal, sought to produce more Cape Breton coal for export than ever before.
