The Hidden Truth about Coal Mining | NACCO Natural Resources

This episode followed Aaron, Angel, Ben, and Matt to three separate locations with the folks over at North American Coal.

Longview, TX Texas
Shreveport, Louisiana
Ackerman, Mississippi

The first location brought them to the Sabine Mine, which was a mine-to-mouth operation that included taking a ride on a Marion 8200, seeing another dragline work on reclamation that had already been mined, and taking coal to the power plant with haul trucks.

The boys got to see Kress Coal Haulers, 785s, PC 2000s, and another machine that we’d love for you guys to guess in the comments.

The second location found them at Five Forks Mine in the middle of “Nowhere Louisiana”. The coal here had a really long life span (a 30-year coal seam). This was a unique situation because the coal here wasn’t as deep as the previous operation they visited.

On this project, NAACO ran a 6020B and Caterpillar 777’s to strip, and then loaded coal onto on-road trucks to take to the plant (which were loaded by smaller excavators - aka 374s.)

The third location they visited was with Mitigation Resources of North America (a NACCO company) at the Red Hills Mine in Mississippi.

At this site, Mitigation Resources said they have to continually make sure there are no net losses of streams or wetlands throughout the process of impact. Meaning… They have to put back streams, plant species back, and if it’s farm property, yield a certain amount of crops each year.

The land here was so beautiful… You’d never ever know it had already been mined. See for yourself by watching the whole vlog!

Astounding Fun Facts To Relish On:

From 1970 to 2019 the gross domestic product of coal increased by 285%
Vehicle miles traveled increased by 195%
The population increased by 60%

YET, the aggregate emissions for 6 common pollutants has dropped by 77%.

If you want to learn more about North American Coal, click here: https://www.nacoal.com/.

If you want to learn more about Mitigation Resources of North America, click here https://mitigate.pro/.

North American Coal and Mitigation Resources of North America are companies operating under the umbrella of NACCO Natural Resources, all of which can be found at https://nacco.com/.

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--VIDEO CHAPTERS–
0:00 - Intro
2:12 - Saving the Environment
2:45 - Marion 8200 Dragline
4:13 - Reclamation Process Explained
7:55 - The Machine Shop
9:05 - Leaving Land Better Than It Was Before
10:33 - THICC Excavator and Dozer
13:33 - Reclamation Laws
14:33 - Mitigation Banking Explained
16:12 - We Cannot Survive WIthout Mining
17:36 - THICC Haul Truck and Dragline
20:40 - Coal Mining: Before and After