Sentences with phrase «coal deposits at»
Recovery percentage (coal): The percentage of coal that can be recovered from the coal deposits at existing mines.
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In fact, the Libyan Sahara Desert contains unmistakable glacial scars and Antarctica has extensive coal deposits — and very likely abundant oil and gas — that establish that their plates were once at the other ends of the earth (see image at right).
Coal deposits motivated the HBC to establish a fortified trading post at Beaver Harbour a dozen years later.
@Sunshinehours1, If nature is so good at processing plants and dead wood, how were coal and peat deposits ever formed?
«If nature is so good at processing plants and dead wood, how were coal and peat deposits ever formed?»
The coal deposits are relatively shallow and therefore cheap to mine, and will last for at least another 50 years.
The actual proportion of coal resources that can be recovered from undisturbed deposits varies from less than 40 % in some underground mines to more than 90 % at some surface mines.
A growing minority of investors and regulators are probing the possibility that untapped deposits of oil, gas and coal — valued at trillions of dollars globally — could become stranded assets as governments adopt stricter climate change policies.
Unfortunately for the exploration company the gas in the seams was not economically viable — not enough water or pressure in the seams or something like that (at the moment) as were the coal seams themselves given the shallower deposits already being exploited nearby.