Sentences with phrase «thick coal seam»
Strike Energy was one of the few Australian stocks to end the day in positive territory, after drilling results intersected one of the thickest coal seams recorded to date in South Australia's Cooper
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The unusually thick reservoir's pay zone is an extraordinary 30m, which is approximately six times larger than a typical Queensland coal seam pay zone of around 5m in thickness.
One cat repository, found by farmers in 1888, was reported to have «a stratum thicker than most coal seams, 10 to 20 cats deep.»
The name reputedly derives from the thick Staffordshire coal seam and from the area's industrial past.
Having worked in the coal industry as a geologist and mining engineer, I have considered some of those massive, exceptionally deep coal seams (some in the Powder River Basin get up to 80 feet thick) and I wonder how warm and luxurious it would have to be to support plantlife that would accumulate such massive amounts of carbon.
I suppose coal seams are also often only a few inches thick and prospectors will go to the trouble of blowing off mountaintops to get at the coal, yet that seems almost like a sane plan compared to what people have as pipe dreams for methane hydrates.