PIKE COUNTY
TABLE 4, — RESERVES Ii FIRS CLAY BED, January 1, 1948

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 [| 0 [| n [| 2 | 13 [| is | 16 L217 [18 19 20
‘Areas ir Coal over Estimated coal reserves, in tons of 2,000 Ib. Total reserves, in tons of 2,000 Ib. Estimated
‘Area of ‘Area | Underlain . Coal over Percentage
Quadrangle lquadrangle| excluded outside | by coal “ nee Mined out, | 14” thick | Measured 14” to 28” thick 28” to 42” thick Over 42” thick 14” and more thick | 28” and more thick | recoverable, eset fi
in county, estimate, | Suterop, | 0°10 14" | original, | res | remaining, | indicated Thousand: ‘Thousands Thousands Thousands Thousands | including all thick,
acres | acres | acres | thick, acres he acres Acres tone | Acres | Merion | Acres ‘of tons Actes ‘of tons Acres | ‘Gf tons _ | mining losses thousands of tons
Measured - - 855 4,416 | 1,620 11,050 2,475) 15,466 2,475] 15,466 1,733
Williamson . 119,204 | 25,265 | 85,535 999 TMS - 7.WK5 | Indicated | 1,774 | 4,793 | 1,280 | 6,335 | 1,916 | 13,228 | 4,970] 24,356 3,196 | 19,563 9,781
Total | 1,774 4,793 2,135 | 10,751 | 3,536 24,278 TMh5 39,822 5,671] 35,029 2/ 50.0 17,54
Measured | 1,182 3,829 1,011 5,052 | 1,274 13,562 3,467 22, ube 2,285) 18,613 9,307
Matewan ..+.00 50,660 | 22,117] 22,606 466 5.471 - 5,¥7L | Indicated 339 1,170 1,057 5,708 608 5,746 2,004 12,624 1,665) 12,454 5,727
Total | 1,521 4,999 2,068 | 10,760 | 1,882 19,307 5.4m 35,066 3,950| 30,067 2/ 50.0 15,034
Measured - - 33 149 153 987 186 1,136 186) 1,136 568
Pikeville .... 87,537 | 82,468] 4,883) = 186 - 186 | Indicatea | - - - - - - - - ~ -
Total | - - 33 14g 153 987 186 1,136 186] 1,136 Bf 50.0 568
Measured | - - - - - - - - ~ - -
Regina .....06 136,536 | 136,345 - - 1g - 191 | Indicated] = - B 318 ns 179 ig 1,097 agi| 1,097 Bug
Total | - - B 318 18 779 igi 1,097 igi] 1,097 2f 50.0 59%
Measured - - 939 5,071 305 2,150 1,244 7,2 1,244) 7,221 3,610
43,726 | 26,960 | 14,517 - 2,239 - 2,239 | Indicated | - : 690 3,726 305 2,059 995 5,785 995| 5,785 2,892
Total | - - 1,629 8,797 610 4,209 2,239] 13,006 2,239] 13,006 | 2/ 50.0 6,502
Measured - a 210 334 2,185 355 2,895 355] 2,895 1,48
Pound ..eeeeee 12,825] 1,585 | 10,867 18 355 - 355 | Indicated | - - - - - - - - - - 2
Total | - - a 110 34 2,785 355 2,895 355] 2,895 2) 50.0 1,4
Measured | 1,182 3.829 2,859 | 14,798 | 3,686 30,533 1127 49,160 6,545 | 45,332 22,666
Indicated | 2,113 5,963 3,100 | 16,087 | 2,947 21,812 8,160] 43,862 6,047 | 37,899 218,949
Total +--+ 450, 518 | 294,740 |138,408] 1,483 15,887 - 15,887 otal | 3,295 9,792 54959 | 30,885 | 6,633 52,345 | 15,887 93,022 12,592 | 83,230 2/ 50.0 Mn, 615
UJ No information available from core drilling, mine workings, or coal outcrops on which to base estimates of
measured and indicated reserves. These areas may contain additional geologically inferred reserves.
2/ Estimated e25


Figure 7. - Upper Elkhorn No. 2 bed, Pike County, Ky., Jan. 1, 1948.


Figure 5. - Williamson bed, Pike County, Ky., Jan. 1, 1948.






Eastern Part of County

Material Inches Material Inches
7 (000) \ 10
8-1/2 Parting 1/2
4-1/2 COAL
1-1/2
11
Parting .... 2-1/2
COAL ....005 2
Parting ... ak
COAL ...eeeee 12
Thickness . - 73

Southwestern Part of County

Material Inches Material Inches
COAL .... » al COAL vecccescceccsceeeceees 30

Parting - 12 Fire clay . se eeee 4
COAL ....065 COAL ..eeeeeeeeeeee 18
Thickness .. Thickness ..... 52

Whitesburg Bed
(See fig. 4 and table 5)

The largest area of known reserves of the Whitesburg bed (also known as
Lower Bevins and Hernshaw) is in the northwest part of the county. Sections
of the bed in this area of recoverable reserves follow:

Northwestern Part of County
Material Inches Material Inches
COAL .eseccsescceeeeeeeeees 36
Thickness ......e00.4. 3

COAL .escecssesccesece 18

Thickness .....

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Upper Elkhorn No, 2 Bed
(See fig. 7 and table 8)

The Upper Elkhorn No. 2 bed (also known as the Lower Thacker and Lower
Cedar Grove) is 135 to 175 feet above the Lower Elkhorn, The interval between
the Upper Elkhorn No. 2 and No. 1 beds ranges from a few inches to 75 feet.

In many localities in the central part of the county (extending from north-
west to southeast) the Upper Elkhorn No. 2 and No. 1 beds form a single multi-
pedded bed, which locally attains a maximum thickness of 7 feet. The parting
between these beds ranges from a fraction of an inch to 30 feet within the
boundaries of a mining property. Where the Upper Elkhorn No. 1 and No. 2 beds
are one, they have been mapped as the No. 2 bed. Ordinarily, the Upper Elk-
horn No. 2 bed ranges from 3 to 4 feet thick, Laminated coal immediately
overlying the coal is characteristic, but frequently a thin layer of fire clay
overlies the coal. In the extreme eastern and extreme western parts of the
county where this fire clay is found most frequently, the mine roof is diffi-
cult to control. Sections of the bed in areas of recoverable reserves follow:

Eastern Part of County
Material Inches

COAL .eececcceeeeeeeeceeceees 7-1/2

Thickness ....

Central Part of County

Material Inches Material Inches
Laminated shale and coal Laminated shale and coal
COAL .eceeececccece 48
Thickness ....
Southern Part of County
Material Inches Material Inches
Laminated coal ... 2-1/2
COAL se .eeeeeeeceeeees 1-1/2
Thickness ......... COAL ..... 29
Shale . 5

COAL .. Be
Thickness .......50005 5
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Material Inches Material Inches

- lo COAL .eeeeeeeeeeee cence
- 6 Laminated coal . 10
+ 7 COAL .. 26
Laminated coal . 13 Thickness ...
COAL . » 22
Thickness ..... - OT COAL sececececeees 8
Laminated coal
Cannel coal .. 5 COAL .seeeeeee
COAL .eeeeveee 1 Thickness
Laminated coal 18
COAL .eeeeeeeee . 23 al
Thickness ....... U7 ii
l
Thickness . . U7
Bingham Bed

(See fig. 10 and table 11)

The first bed of any importance below the Lower Elkhorn is the Bingham
bed (also Imown as the Clintwood, Feds Creek, and Matewan). It lies 170 to
290 feet (averaging 220 feet) below the Lower Elkhorn and is commonly 3-1/2
to 5 feet thick. The principal area of Imown reserves lies in the south-
eastern part of the coumty and sections of the bed in this area follow:

Southeastern Part of County

Material Inches Material Inches

COAL .eseeseee COAL ..... 7-1/2

Parting . . 1/2 Parting ... 1/2
COAL ....46 COAL ...eeeee 34
Thickness .... qe
ak

COAL ..eeeeeee

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PIKE COUNTY

TAELE 8, - RESERVES IN UPPER ELKHORH NO. 2 BED, January 1, 1948

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 [| 0 [| uf ze [3 [ iw 15 16 Lv [| is 19 20
‘Area of ene Area | Underlain feat over Coal over Estimated coal reserves, in tons of 2,000 Ib. Total reserves, in tons of 2,000 Ib. Percentage (Estimated |
Quadrangle ——Iquadrangle| “from | outside | _by coal in place | Mined out, | 14” thick | Measured 14” to 28” thick 28” to 42” thick Over 42” thick 14” and more thick [| 28” and more thick | recoverable, | fecoveraple
in county, | esti outcrop, | 0” to 14” acres | remaining, | indicated including all
acres Jaws acres. | thick, acres | "ginally. acres Acres | Thousands | Acres Thousands Acres | Thousands | pores | Tmousands | acres Thousands mining losses tho ries
Measured - - 3,443 | 17,803 976 74135 4,419) 24,938 44g] 24,938 12,644
Harold s..+0e 49,445] 30,124) 6,537 - 12,794 513 12,281 | Indicated} 2,901 9,620 3,539 | 16,828 | 1,422 10,854 7,862 37,302 4,961| 27,682 14,035
Total | 2,902 9,620 6,982 | 34,631 | 2,398 17,989 | 12,281] 62, 240 9,380] 52,620 5067 26,679
Measured eke oT 1,219 6,168 | 2,407 16,208 3,868} 23,133 3,626] 22,376 11,345
Williamson .. 119,244] 71,8} 19,576) 14 27,810 8 27,802 | Indicated] 6,516 | 21,061 | 12,802 | 60,888 | 4,616 31,332 | 23,934) 113,281 17,418] 92,220 46,756
Total | 6,758 | 21,818 |14,02 | 67,056 | 7,023 47,540 | 27,802} 136,414 21,0} 114,596 | 2/ 50.7 58,101
Measured 839 2,768 3,998 | 20,760 872 5,624 5.709] 29,152 4,870] 26,334 13,377
Matewan ..... 50,660] 8,749] 27,509 - 14,402 60 14,342 | Indicated | 3,127 9,252 4,675 | 22,144 81 5,360 8,633] 36,756 5,506] 27,504 13,945
Total | 3,966 | 12,020 8,673 | 42,904 | 1,703 10,984 | 14,342] 65,908 10,376] 53,888 50-7 27,322
Measured 161 496 6,578 | 34,523 | 19,217 | 135,419 | 25,956] 170,438 25,795] 169,942 88,200
Pikeville ... 87,537| 7,249] 40,691 - 39,597 2,903 36,694 | Indicated 349 1,099 4,783 | 1,888 | 5,606 36,348 | 10,738] 59,335 10,389] 58,236 30,224
Total 510 1,595 | 12,361 | 56,411 | 24,823 | 171,767 | 36,694) 229,773 36,184 | 228,178 51.9 128, 4eh
Measured 556 1,805 4,224 | 21,617 | 9,509 70,053 | 14,289 £2875 13,733] 91,670 46,477
Regina «2... 136,536| 17,691] 91,035 y 27,806 4,600 23,206 | Indicated 910 3,083 5.195 | 24,094 | 2,812 18,902 8,917, 6,079 8,007| 42,996 21,799
Total | 1,466 4,888 9,419 | 45,711 | 12,321 88,955 | 23,206) 139,554 21,740 | 134,666 5067 68,276
Measured | - - 668 2,935 937 6,184 | 1,605) 9,119 1,605] 9,219 4, 623
Burley ...+0. 43,716] 17,770] 17,835 eT4 7,837 - 1,837 | Indicated | 2,290 7,901 3,139 | 13,764 803 5.372 6,232 27,036 3.942] 19,135 9,701
Total | 2,290 7,901 3,807 | 16,699 | 1,740 11,555 7,837 36,155 5.547) 28,254 | 2/ 5067 14,324
Measured 109 3uL 6 367 | 1,059 1,307 | 1,236 1.985 1,127] 7,674 3.891
12,825} 4,861] 5,939 - 2,025 - 2,025 | Indicated 189 539 129 581 un 3,038 789 4,158 600| 3,619 1,835
Total 298 850 197 gus | 1,530 10,345 2,025 12,143 1,727} 11,293 | 2/ 50.7 5,726
Measured | 1,907 6,137 | 20,198 | 104,173 | 34.977 | 247,930 | 57,082] 358,20 550175 | 352,103 180,557
Indicated |16,282 | 52,555 | 34,262 | 160,187 | 16,561 | 111,205 | 67,105] 323,947 50,823 | 271,392 138,295
Total .++++ 499,963 | 158,278 | 209,122 292 132,271 8,084 | 124,187 Total [18,189 | 58,692 | 54,460 | 264,360 | 51,538 | 359,135 [124,187] 682,187 105,998 | 623,495 51.14 m8, 852
Lf No information available from core drilling, mine workings, or coal outcrops on which to base estimates of
’® measured and indicated reserves. These areas may contain additional geologically inferred reserves. eos
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2/ Estimated




FOREWORD

Since its creation by Congress in 1910, The Bureau of Mines has borne a
heavy responsibility for technical progress in the mining, preparation, and
utilization of our national fuel reserves, Similarly, it has pioneered in
scientific studies leading to better health and safety in mining and more
efficient conservation of fuel resources.

Conservation means a full but prudent use of the national resources with
avoidance of waste, Conservation requires an inventory to determine the ex-
tent, availability, and condition of our resources, for without these facts
it is impossible for either industry or Government to plan for sustained pro-
duction and maintenance of the industrial capacity so essential to our peace-
time prosperity and wartime survival. This is true particularly of fuels
needed for special purposes, such as metallurgical coking coals that must
possess certain favorable properties, Heavy use of our limited reserves of
good coking coal has resulted in severe depletion and, in some areas, ex-
haustion of the thickest and best beds.

At the request of the Munitions Board, Department of Defense, the Bureau
of Mines made preliminary arrangements early in 1948 for an investigation of
known minable reserves of coal that were or could be made suitable for the
manufacture of metallurgical coke. In August of that year, actual field work
began in the low- and medium-volatile coking coal fields of the Appalachian
region, specifically central Pennsylvania and southern West Virginia. As both
the economic and technologic factors that determine whether a particular coal
can be used for producing metallurgical coke will vary with changing conditions,
the investigation was planned to cover three phases:

1. Determination, from available data, of coal reserves with coking
properties that occur in beds thick enough and within depths considered eco-
nomically minable by present methods, together with such additional reserves
as may become economically minable under future conditions of improved tech-
nology and greater need.

2. Study of the preparation characteristics of the reserves thereby
developed to determine (a) which coals are suitable under present standards
for producting metallurgical coke either as mined or after beneficiation by
conventional preparation methods, and (b) which coals would require special
and more intensive treatment in mining, preparation, or both.

3. Study of the carbonizing properties of the reserves thus developed

to determine the yield and quality of coke, gas, and chemical products that
can be obtained from coals carbonized singly and in blends.

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Figure 4. - Whitesburg bed, Pike County, Ky., Jan. I, 1948.


PIKE COUNTT
TABLE 5, - RESERVES IN WHITESBURG BED, January 1, 1948

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 | 1 12 3 | 4 is | iw | 7 is 19 20
Area of of area | Underlain Coal over Coal over Estimated coal reserves, in tons of 2,000 Ib. Total reserves, in tons of 2,000 Ib. Percentage | Estimated
Quadrangle Jquadrangle| from | outside by coal in place. | Mined out, | 14” thick | Measured 14” to 28” thick 28” to 42” thick Over 42” thick 14” and more thick 28” and more thick | recoverable, reseee at ad
in county, | estimate, | outcrop, | O”to14" | it cany, | acres | remaining, | indicated Th Thousand: Thousand: Thousands | including all
acres | ‘Tacres | acres | thick, acres | Ve acres Acres | Thousands | acres | Thousands | Acres | Thousands | Acres Stone | Acres | Sr tone» | mining losses hoor ns
Measured | = - 30 1g 122 187 152] 936 152 936 46s
Harold +.++++ 4g, WMG | 18,369} 26,019) 5,058 - 5,058 | Indicated} 1,570 | 5,152 | 1,667 | 7,788 | 1,699 | 10,959 | 4,906] 23,899 3,336| 18,747 9,373
Total | 1,570 5,152 1,697 1,937 | 1,82 11, 746 5,058 24,835 3,488] 19,683 2) 5000 9,842.
Measured 453 1,565 2,318 | 11,349 | 1,621 10,568 4,392 23,482 3,939) 21,917 10,958
Williamson .. 102,440 | 30,062 | 49,450 - 22,929 - 22,929 | Indicated | 2,936 9,321 | 12,085 | 56,987 | 3,516 22,847 | 18,537 89,155 15,601] 79,834 39,917
total | 3,369 | 10,886 [14,403 | 68,336 | 5,237 | 33,425 | 22,929] 112,637 | 19,540} 101,751 | 2/ 50.0 50,875
Measured - - - 238 1,999 238 1,999 238] 1,999 1,000
Matewan ..+06 50,660 | 50,349 - - Bee B 238 | Indicated | - - - - - - - - - -
Total | - - - - 238 1,999 238 1,999 238) 1,999 2/ 50.0 1,000
Measured 285 1,154 169 862 639 4 Wg 1,093 6,465 808} 5,312 2,656
Pound eserves 12,825] 2,233| 9,499 - 1,093 - 1,093 | Indicated | - - - - - - - - - - -
Total 285 1,154 169 862 639 4 Mig. 1,093 6,465 808] 5,322 2 50.0 2,656
Measured 138 2,ng 2,517 | 12,360 | 2,620 17,803 5.875 32,882 5.137 | 30,163 15,082
Indicated | 4,506 | 14,473 [13,752 | 64,775 | 5,215 33,806 | 23,W43| 113,054 18,937 | 98,581 49,290
Total s+. 215,371 | 101,012 | 84,968] = 29,391 73 | 29,318 Total | 5,244 | 17,192 [16,269 | 77.135 | 7.835 | 51,609 | 29,318] 145,936 | 24,074 | 128,74 | 2/ 50.0 64,372
No information available from core drilling, mine workings, or coal outcrops on which to base estimates of
measured and indicated reserves. These areas may contain additional geologically inferred reserves.
2/ Estimated -9- 4225


PIKE COUNTY
TABLE 12, - RESERVES IN EAGLE BED, January 1, 1948

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 =~] ou 2 [ 3 [| «4 15 | 16 Liv [is 19 20
area ot | 75 | prea | underain | Coatover Coal over Estimated coal reserves, in tons of 2,000 Ib. Total reserves, in tons of 2,000 Ib, Percentage | Estimated
Quadrangle lquadrangle| oduded outside | _ by coal rar thick | ined out, | 14” thick | Measured 14” to 28” thick 287 to 42” thick Over 42” thick 14” and more thick 28” and more thick | recoverable, | _‘ecoverable
in county estimate, | ouerop,| O10 14" oriinty, | 22's | remaining, | indicated Thousand: Thousand: Thousand: Thousand: Thousands | including all "eserves 20 and
acres |"Yfacres | acres | thick acres | ares” acres Acres | Motions | Acres | "ortons | Actes | "ottons | Acres | “ottons. | Aer | Srtons | Mining !o88e5 la astonas of tons
Measured | 2,293] 7,221 | 2,677| 12,783 wT 3,1us | 5,447] 23,252 3,154) 15,932 1,966
Hurley ..+. 43,716| 20,673] 3,600 281 19,162 - 19,162 | Indicated] 11,552) 34,719 2,163) 10,723 - - 13,725) 45, ube 2,163} 10,723 5.361
Total! 13,8%5| 41,9h0 4, eho] 23,506 NIT 3,148 | 19,162] 68,594 5,317| 26,654! 2/50.0 13,327
Measured 2,293 7,221 2,677] 12,783 WT 3,148 5,447] 23,152 3,154] 15,932 7,966
Indicated} 11,552] 34,719 | 2,163] 10,723 | - - 13,715, 45, Wk 2,163} 10,723 5,361
Total ... 43,716] 20,673} 3,600 281 19,162 - 19,162 Total | 13,845] 41,9h0 4, eho] 23,506 MIT 3,148 | 19,162] 68,594 5,317| 26,654 250.0 13,327
TABLE 13, - RESERVES IN MILLARD BSD, January 1, 1948
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 [| 0 [un fe [ 3 [ 15 | 16 Lv [is 19 20
Area of eos area | underian | 221 over Coal over Estimated coal reserves, in tons of 2,000 Ib. Total reserves, in tons of 2,000 Ib. Percentage | Estimated
Quadrangle euadrancte oxrom | outside ty coal, nd ince” Mined out, | 14” thick | Measured 14” to 28” thick 28” to 42” thick Over 42” thick 14” and more thick | 28” and more thick | recoverable, ese an, nd
in county, | estimate, | outcrop, | 0” to ily, | acres | remaining, | indicated including all 4
acres | acres | acres. | ek acres | OCT acres Ares | Mottons” | Acres | ottone | Acres | attons | Acres | ortons” | Aces | orton =| mining losses |e tng
Measured 1,172 3,516 He 1,958 8 oH 1,553 5,538 381 2,022 1,072
Matewan «+. 50,660] 38,244) 4,212 mle 7,693 3 7,690 | Indicatea| 4,608] 13,825 | 1,196 7,896 33 as 6,137 21,939 1,529} 8,114 4,300
Total! 5,780] 17,341 | 1,869 9,854 ‘w 282 7,690 27.477 1,910] 10,136 | 2/ 53.0 5.372
Measured | 21,436] 68,656 | 6,101 | 26,938 900 5,72. | 28,437 101,315 7,001] 32,659 17,309
Regina .... 136,536] 67,937] 16,713 oe 51 uel - 51,4e4 | Indicated} 23,047] 70,556 | = - - = 23,047 70,556 - - -
Total | 44,483) 139,212 | 6,101 | 26,938 900 5.72. | 51, 4a 171,871 7,001} 32,659 2/ 53.0 17,309
Measured 2,710 9,156 | 2,688 ) 13,467 iis 1,033 5 5N6 23,656 2,836] 14,500 7,685
43,716] 16,460] 4,072} = 23,184 - 23,184 | Indicated | 17,185] 54,134 453 2,378 | - - 17,638 56, 512 453] 2,378 1,260
Total | 19,895] 63,290 | 3,241 | 15,845 1s 1,033 | 23,184 80,168 3,289] 16,878 | 2/ 53.0 8,945
Measured | 25,318) 81,328 | 9,162 42365 1,056 6,818 | 35,536 230509 10,218] 49,181 26,066
Indicated | 44,840} 138,515 | 1,949 | 10,27! 33 21s | 46,822 149,007 1,982] 210,492 54560
Total ... 230,912 | 122,641 | 24,996 guy 82,361 3 82,358 Total | 70,158] 219,843 | 11,111 | 52,637 | 1,089 7,036 | 82,358 279,516 12,200] 59,673 2/ 53.0 31,626
TABLE 14, - RESERVES IN HAGY BED, January 1, 1948
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 97] 0 [u]fe Ts | w is | 16 L.7 [18 19 20
des of Areas area | Underiain | Coal over Coal over Estimated coal reserves, in tons of 2,000 Ib. Total reserves, in tons of 2,000 Ib. Percentage | Estimated
Quadrangle quadrangle! “from | outside | by coal | “f pinta" | Mined out, | 14” thick | Measured [ 14” t028” thick | 28”t0 42” thick ‘Over 42” thick 14” and more thick [ 28” and more thick | recoverable, | _ecoverable
in county, | cy, outcrop, | 0” to 14” acres | remaining, | Indicated including all |"eserves 28”
acres Voces acres” | thick, acres | onsinally. acres Acres | Thavsands | Acres | Thousands | acres | Thousands | pores | ThoUEAMGS | pores | ThOUSENES | mining losses hoe ie as
Measured aka pu - - - - 2ua| Sue - - -
Matewan ..+6 50,660] 48,871 303) - 1,486 - 1,486 | Indicated] 1,245 2,802 - - - - 1,245} 2,802 - - -
. Total] 1,486 3.344 - - - - 1,486] 3.34 - - - -
Measured | 3,939) 14,281 | 1,273] 6,301 | = - 5,212) 20,482. 1,273) 6,302 3.1n
Regina 136,536 | 102,544] 23,482, - 10,510 - 10,510 | Indicated] 5,298] 19,073 - - - - 5,298} 19,073 - - -
Total | 9,237) 33.254 | 2,273 6,301 - - 10, 510] 39,555 1,273) 6,301 2/ 50.0 3,15
Measured 2,001 2,9. 607 3,096 - - 1,608 6,047 607] 3,096 1,548
Hurley 43,716] 37,921} 2,272) - 3,623 - 3,623 | Indicated} 1,895] 4,264 120 522] = - 2,015] 4,786 120 522 261
Total | 2,896 7,215 1a 3,618 - - 3,623} 10,833 T2T| 3,618 2/ 50.0 1,809
Measured 5,181} 17,674 | 1,880 95397 - - 7,061, 27,071 1,880] 9,397 4,699
Indicated | 8438| 26,139 120 522 | - - 8,558] 26,661 120 bee 261
Total .... 230,912 | 189,336] 25,957 - 15,619 = 15,619 otal | 13,619] 43,813 | 2,000 9.919 = bd 15,619 53.732 2,000] 9,919 2/ 50.0 4,960
1 No information available from core drilling, mine workings, or coal outcrops on which to base estimates of
measured and indicated reserves. These areas may contain additional geologically inferred reserves,
-15- 4205

2/ Estimated


PIEE COUNTY
TABLE 7. - RESERVES IN UPPER ELKHORN NO. 3 BED, January 1, 1948

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 — 0 Tu [| 2 Ts T uw is | a a 19 20
A i i .
area ot | gf] area | underian | Coavever Coal over Estimated coal reserves, in tons of 2,000 Ib. Total reserves, in tons of 2,000 1b. _ Percentage Estimated |
Quadrangle Iquadrangle| ° from | outside | bycoal | ‘in piace’ | Minedout,| 14” thick | Measured | 14” to 28” thick 28” to 42” thick Over 42” thick 14” and more thick | 28” and more thick | recoverable, | , feroveramle.
in county, | esti outcrop, | 0” to 14” i acres | remaining, | indicated including all
seen" | mate | °SGer | tc aces | ane woe nares | Tapeants | acres [Taran] sees | Taran [ acres | Tatami® | acre [usar | ming es | I
Measured ju 1,213 1,032 4, Tho 237 1,920 1, 580} 1.873 1,269] 6,660 3,650
Harold «+... 4g,Wi6 | 33,885] 6,774)  - 8,787 1,993 6,794 | Indicated | 1,204 | 4,334 | 2,555 | 12,181 | 1,455] 11,620 | 5,224) 27,135 4,010] 22,801 12,495
Total | 1,515 5,547 3,587 | 15,921 | 1,692 13,540 6,794 35,008 -5s279} 29,461 8 16,145
Measured - - - - 328 2,412 328 2,412 328 2,2 1,322
Williamson .. 129,244] 105,74! 8,501} 1,061 3,968 146 3,822 | Indicated | 1,039 3,223 538 2,536 | 1,917 12,078 3.494 17,837 2,455] 14,614 8,008
Total | 1,039 3,223 538 2,536 | 2,245 14,490 3,822 20,249 2,783) 17,026 58 94330
Measured | 1,720 725 358 1,681 | 1,212 8,454 3,189 13,860 1,469] 10,135 5,503
Matewan »+..- 50,660} 18,726} 20,607] 1,602 9,725 1,369 8,356 | Indicated | 2,180 1630 709 2,972 | 2,278 14,786 5,167 22,388 2,987 | 17,758 9,643
Total | 3,900 8,355 1,067 4,653 | 3,389 23,240 8,356 36, 248 4,456] 27,893 M.S 15,146
Measured 679 2,356 5,916 | 30,719 | 12,52 96,223 | 19,119] 129,298 18, U0 | 126, 942 68,676
Pikeville ... 87,537 | 54038] 45,413) = 37,086 3.791 | 33.295 | Indicated | 1,205 | 3,775 | 5.457 | 25,807 | 7,514 | 50,065 | 14,176] 79,647 | 12,971 | 75.872 4,047
Total | 1,884 6,131 | 11,373 | 56,526 | 20,038 | 146,288 | 33,295] 208,945 31,411 | 202,814 MeL 109,723
Measured 130 507 | 1,559 | 8,376 us WeMTS | 24332] 13,358 2,202] 12,851 6,850
Regina «+++. 136,536 | 96,523} 30,749 - 9,264 129 95135 | Indicated 174 aus 6,178 | 31,709 Ut 2,987 6,803 35,2! 6,629 | 34,696 18,493
Total 304 1,055 1,737 | 40,085 | 1,094 7,462 9,135 48, 602 8,831 | 47,547 5363 25,343
Measured - - 62 298 | 1,8h7 13,372 1,909 33,670 1,909 33,670 T1T
Pound ssereee 12,825] 4,589] 3,864 - 4,372 1,685 2,687 | Indicated 1 4 145 609 632 0302 778 915 1 SLL 2,578
Total 1 4 207 907 -| 2,479 | 17,674 | 2,687 18,585 2,686 | 18,581 52.5 9,755
Measured | 2,840 | 7,801 | 8,927 | 45,814 | 16,690 | 126,856 | 28,457] 180,471 — | 25,617 | 172,670 93,178
Indicated | 5,803 | 16,54 [15,582 | 7h,ei4 | 14, 2h7 95,838 | 35,632] 187,166 29,829 | 170,652 92,264
Total +++ 456, 248 | 264,475 | 115,908] 2,663 73,202 9,113 64,089 Total | 8,643 | 24,315 | 24,509 | 120,628 | 30,937 | 222,694 | 64,089] 367,637 55,446 | 343,322 5.0L 185, u42
L/ No information available from core drilling, mine workings, or coal outcrops on which to base estimates of .
measured and indicated reserves. These areas may contain additional geologically inferred reserves.
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Name of bed Other names of bed
Williamson ........0. Amburgy, Low Splint
Upper Elkhorn No. 3 Thacker, Cedar Grove
Upper Elkhorn No. 2 . Lower Thacker, Lower Cedar Grove
Upper Elkhorn No. 1... Alma, Penny
Lower Elkhorn .........66 Pond Creek, Freeburn, Warfield, No. 2
Gas,Campbell Creek, Shelby Gap

Bingham ......cseseecececccsececccecees Clintwood, Feds Creek, Matewan
Eagle

Millard ........ccccccecsceeccceeceeees Glamorgan, Cedar

Hagy

AUKLCL coc eeccceeeeeececcceceecececeees Splash Dam, Glenalum Tunnel

Upper Banner
Elswick

Detailed estimates of known reserves of measured and indicated coal in
Pike County, Ky., as of January 1, 1948, are given in tables 1 to 17, inclusive.

Table 18 is a recapitulation of known coal reserves by beds in Pike County.
Reserves in all beds 14 inches and more thick are 3,915,761,000 short tons.
Of this total, 3,189,366,000 short tons are in beds 28 inches and more thick.
Recoverable reserves in beds 28 inches and more thick are estimated at
1,756,624,000 tons. It must be remembered that these estimates are only the
known reserves, When more extensive drilling is done to obtain information,
particularly on the lower beds, much larger reserves will be found to exist
in the county.

The weighted average percentage of recovery for each bed in the county
is shown in tables 1 to 17, inclusive. The highest percentage of recovery
is 65.6 for the Bingham bed in the Regina quadrangle. The lowest percentage
of recovery is 50.0 for the Whitesburg bed in the Matewan quadrangle. The
weighted average percentage of recovery, including all mining losses for all
beds in the county, is 55.08. Based on this recovery for all beds, the esti-
mated known recoverable reserves 28 inches and more thick in Pike County are
1,756,624,000 short tons as of January 1, 1948.

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Northwestern Part of County

Material Inches Material Inches
14
4
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1
COAL ..... . 2-1/2
Thickness .... 36-1/2
COAL . 17
8 COAL ..... 18
ek Parting 1/4
Bre) COAL .eeceeeeeee 3
Parting .. 13
13 COAL 10
1/8 Parting 1/8
COAL . 5
1/4 Parting 1/4
3-1/4 COAL
1/4 Parting 1/8
4 COAL ... 2
15 D4-3,
3-1/2

COAL .ceeeeee .
Thickness .....seeee

Central-Western Part of County

Material Inches Material
COAL .ecesececceecevoece 35. COAL .ecececececeees
Thickness ......... 35 Thickness .....

COAL .eeeeeeeeees
Thickness ..

-1/2 COAL .cceceseceecece
29-1/2 Thickness .....

Lower Elkhorn Bed

(See fig. 9 and table 10)

The Lower Elkhorn bed (also known as the Pond Creek, Freeburn, Warfield,
No. 2 Gas, Shelby Gap, and Campbell Creek) is the most extensive of the four
major beds in Pike County. It is normally 4 to 5 feet thick and underlies
most of the county. A few inches of laminated coal, which is high in ash,
usually is present at or near the top of the bed. Toward the southwest part

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TABLES

Reserves in Hindman 9 bed .........
Reserves in Coalburg bed ..
Reserves in Winifrede bed .
Reserves in Fire Clay bed .
Reserves in Whitesburg bed
Reserves in Williamson bed
Reserves in Upper Elkhorn No. 3 bed
Reserves in Upper Elkhorn No. 2 bed
Reserves in Upper Elkhorn No. 1 bed
Reserves in Lower Elkhorn bed ...
Reserves in Bingham bed ........
Reserves in Eagle bed ..
Reserves in Millard bed
Reserves in Hagy bed ...
Reserves in Auxier bed ..
Reserves in Upper Banner bed .
Reserves in Elswick bed .......eceeeeeeacees
Recapitulation of reserves, Pike County, Ky.
Analyses of Pike County coals ..

ILLUSTRATIONS

Key map of Pike County, Ky. ...ceececesecceceeee
Winifrede bed, Pike County, Ky., Jan. 1, 1948 .
Fire Clay bed, Pike County, Ky., Jan. 1, 1948 .
Whitesburg bed, Pike County, Ky., Jan. 1, 1948
Williamson bed, Pike County, Ky., Jan. 1, 1948 .
Upper Elkhorn No. 3 bed, Pike County, Ky., Jan. 1, 1948.
Upper Elkhorn No. 2 bed, Pike County, Ky., Jan. 1, 1948.
Upper Elkhorn No. 1 bed, Pike County, Ky., Jan. 1, 1948.
Lower Elkhorn bed, Pike County, Ky., Jan. 1, 1948 ...
Bingham bed, Pike County, Ky., Jan. 1, 1948 .
Millard bed, Pike County, Ky., Jan. 1, 1948

Auxier bed, Pike County, Ky., Jan. 1, 1948 ....
Elswick bed, Pike County, Ky., Jan. 1, 1948 ............

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Figure 3. - Fire Clay bed, Pike County, Ky., Jan. 1, 1948.


CARBONIZATION OF PIKE COUNTY COALS

The coal beds of eastern Kentucky are part of the Appalachian region and
possess many of the excellent properties characteristic of West Virginia coals.
Their importance in the carbonization industry is indicated by the Preprint
from Minerals Yearbook of 1948,9/ which shows that 14,548,607 tons, or about
15 percent of the total coal carbonized that year, was produced in Kentucky.
Generally, the coals from the eastermost counties are well-suited chemically
for coke making, because they contain low proportions of moisture, ash, and
sulfur, Because they are of high-volatile rank, they must be blended with
15 to 30 percent low- or medium-volatile coal to obtain coke with physical
properties comparable to those of the cokes now used by metallurgical industries.

Coals from the Lower Elkhorn (Pond Creek), Upper Elkhorn No. 1, Upper Elk-
horn No. 2, and Upper Elkhorn No. 3 beds are high-volatile coking coals. Bureau
of Mines pilot-scale tests have shown that Lower Elkhorn coall0, 11/ cokes
strongly when blended with 20 and 30 percent low-volatile coal,

Although Winifrede bed coal is not known to have been used for the produc-
tion of metallurgical coke, it probably would be suitable if blended with coking
coals of higher rank. Winifrede-bed coal, which is classed as coking, contains
relatively high proportions of splint. Fire Clay (Hazard No. 4) coal from nearby
Perry County yielded strong cokel2/ when blended with 20 and 30 percent Pocahontas
No. 3.

9/ United States Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, Preprint from Minerals
Yearbook, 1948, p. 26

1o/ Davis, J. D., Reynolds, D. A., Naugle, B. W., Wolfson, D. E., and Birge,
G. W., Carbonizing Properties of Thick Freeport and Pittsburgh Coals
from Pennsylvania, Elkhorn Coal from Kentucky and America and Mary Lee
Coals from Alabama: Bureau of Mines Tech. Paper 726, 1949, 58 pp. With
Application of Results to Byproduct Practice by C. H. Flickinger and
J. P. Graham.

/ Fieldner, A. C., Davis, J. D., Selvig, W. A., Reynolds, D. A., Sprunk, G. C.,
and Auvil, H. S., Carbonizing Properties and Petrographic Composition of
Pond Creek-Bed Coal from Majestic Mine, Majestic, Pike County, Ky.: Bureau
of Mines Tech, Paper 596, 1939, 46 pp.

le/ Davis, J. D., Reynolds, D. A., Ode, W. H., Holmes, C. R., Elder, J. L.,
and Wilson, J. E., Carbonizing Properties and Petrographic Composition
of Hazard No. 4 Coal from Columbus No. 4 Mine and High-Temperature Car-
bonizing Properties of Hazard No. 7 Coal from Hardburly Mine, Perry
County, Ky.: Bureau of Mines Tech. Paper 672, 1945, 45 pp.

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Maps have been prepared of the Winifrede,Fire Clay, Whitesburg, Williamson,
Upper Elkhorn No. 3, Upper Elkhorn No. 2, Upper Elkhorn No. 1, Lower Elkhorn,
Bingham, Millard, Auxier, and Elswick beds. (See figs. 2 to 13.) Maps of
other beds were not prepared, because too little information is available
regarding the thickness and extent of these beds.

The characteristics of the mapped beds are shown by bed sections furnished
by the owners and lessees of the coal. All of the sections given are for beds
within the areas of recoverable reserves 28 inches and more thick (black areas
on the maps).

Descriptions of the coal beds that have been mapped and bed sections se-
lected to show the irregularities of the beds in areas of recoverable reserves
follow:

Winifrede Bed
(See fig. 2 and table 3)

The Winifrede bed (also known as Flatwoods) ranges from 600 to 825 feet
(normally 700 feet) above the Lower Elkhorn bed. It usually is overlain by
shale containing fossils, which is a marker for the bed. Ordinarily, the bed
is over 5 feet thick, and as the thickness increases the partings generally
become thicker, Except in the northern part of the county, the Winifrede bed
occurs in hilltops. Sections of the bed in areas of recoverable reserves
follow:

Northern Part of County

Material Inches Material Inches
COAL «4.6.05 uy COAL ....5e 2
Parting . 2-1/2 Parting . 8
COAL we eeeeeee 2 COAL ... 22
Thickness ...... -1/2 Parting . 1
COAL ..eeeeee 28
COAL .. 53 Thickness .. 61
Parting . 5
COAL ..eeeee il COAL ...... 39
Thickness .......... 69 Parting . z
COAL ...... eee 3
COAL ...eeeeeeeee 9 Thickness ....... 5
Parting ....... 1-1/2
COAL .eeeeeeeee 29-1/2 COAL vecseeceeceeeeceeeeees 62
Thickness ........ 0 Thickness 62

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is appreciated and is gratefully acknowledged. To protect the confidence of
data from private records, the Bureau of Mines is assembling and publishing

the estimates on a county-wide basis only and will not release any supplementary
or more detailed information.

This investigation will serve a triple purpose:

1. By providing an inventory of known, minable reserves of coking coal
that are or can be made suitable for the manufacture of metallurgical coke.

2. By providing an inventory of known minable reserves of coal with
coking properties but unsuited for metallurgical coking-coal use by present
standards and techniques because of high sulfur, high ash, or weakly coking
properties. When warranted by economic and technologic developments, these
reserves later may be adapted to metallurgical use by suitable preparation,
blending, carbonizing, or metallurgical techniques.

3. By ascertaining the approximate location and magnitude of areas in
which geologic data indicate the presence of inferred reserves but where ex-
ploratory work has been too limited to determine measured and indicated re-
serves, It is in these areas that more intensive exploratory work is needed
in the future to complete the coking-coal inventory.

The first of these objectives is of prime importance for the present and
immediate future, and the second for the more distant future. Accomplishment
of the third objective will be of major aid to both industry and State and
Federal agencies in more effectively planning and executing coal exploratory
and testing investigations.

RALPH L. BROWN
Coal Technology Coordinator
Bureau of Mines

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This report is one in a series, by counties, covering in detail the esti-
mated known minable coking-coal reserves determined under the first phase of
the investigation. It also includes a general assessment of the preparation
and carbonizing properties of the most important beds and a table of analyses
of typical coals from the county. Publications will be issued later covering
in more detail the preparation and carbonization data upon completion of the
extensive laboratory work involved in these phases of the survey.

The estimates of coking-coal reserves in these reports were derived from
data made available to the Bureau of Mines by coal companies, landowners,
Federal, State, and municipal engineers, geologists, land-record officials,
and others having authentic records of the occurrence and characteristics
of the coal in the respective counties. All of the data were assembled from
mine maps, records of core drilling, test pitting and trenching, and related
sources of information, for no new core-drilling or geologic exploration was
undertaken. Consequently, there are areas covered by these reports wherein
the known data now available are inadequate to estimate reserves of measured
and indicated coal, as these are defined in the reports. Geologic data also
indicate the presence of large reserves of inferred coal in many of these
areas, but no estimates of inferred reserves are presented in these reports.
As their titles indicate, they include only known, minable reserves of meas-
ured and indicated coal and not total estimated reserves of coal, Therefore,
any comparison of these and other coal-reserve estimates should be made with
this distinction clearly understood.

The percentage recovery shown in these reports is a weighted average,
based on the thickness of clean coal, less all partings 3/8-inch or more thick,
recovered from the mined-out areas in each bed. Thus, it is an over-all net
areal percentage recovery that, in many cases, will be lower than the recovery
estimated by operators who eliminate from their calculations coal pillars left
at property boundaries, under roads, and elsewhere. It is based on all coal
removed since the beginning of mining operations and therefore may vary from
that of recent operations in which recovery either has been improved substan-
tially by technologic advances or has declined, owing to flooding or other
conditions that make it expedient to leave more coal in the ground. As the
estimates are dated and represent a factual record of all past operations in
the particular area, the percentage recovery and estimate of minable coal may
be adjusted by operators to suit their particular conditions at any given time.

These county reports are being published as rapidly as the available data
can be found and analyzed. Later, in cooperation with the U. S. Geological
Survey, results of these studies will be combined with those from a complete
geologic investigation of all coal reserves in the areas considered. Then,
reports can be published, by States, giving estimates of total reserves, in-
cluding the geologically inferred reserves that have been omitted herein.

This investigation was made possible only through the complete coopera-
tion of the coal operators, landowners, and others who have made available
to the Bureau their confidential records and data relating to mining opera-
tions, drill-core and test-pit operations, etc. This cooperation and assistance

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‘TABLE 1, - RESERVES IN HIVDMAN WO. 9 EZD, Jemuary 1, 1945

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 [ 0 ~Tufefts tT] i [| 1% | wt{ is 19 20
prea ot | NO ‘ea | Underain Coat over | Coal over Estimated onal reserves in tons of 2.000 = _Total feserves in ns 2000 mT percentage (Estimated
Quadrangle quadrangle! “from | outside by coal in place’ | Mined out, | 14 thick | Measured [ 14” to 28” thick 28 to 42 thick Over 42° thick 14” and more thick | 28° and more thick recoverable Se" and
in county, | estimate, | outerop,| 071014" | Ginn, | acres | remaining, | indicated Thousands | including all |Teserves 25°
coor | Fines | ter hem ace | tera me tore [Mareer® [ some [Pome | some [Mates | tome | Mate | some [Pa | ies rn
Measured - - 260 1,132 ug N63 309 1,54 309 | 1.5% 197
Pikeville .. 81,235 | 80,926) = - 309 - 309 Indicated - - - - - - - - - - -
Total] = - 260 | 11m Ce) 463 309 1,508 39 | 1,594 | 2/50.0 1
| Measured - - ao | lan dg N63 309 1.594 509 | 2,594 19
| Indicated | - - - - - - - = - = -
Total «+. | 81,235 | 80,926] = - 309 -, 309 Total | = ao | lain ® 63 39 | 1,55 309 | 1,504 | 2/50.0 197
TABLE 2, - HESERVES IM COALBURG HED, January 1, 1948
L 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. 0 [ufeitftuostfiu- i | w |w7tfis 19 20
wea of | gS, trea | Underon Coal over Coal over _Estiated ex reserves in tons of 2000 —_ To reserves in beso 200 me Estimated
Quadrangle jauadrangle| “from | outside | by coal in place. | Mined out, | 14” thick | Measured 14” to 28” thick 28” to 42” thick Over 42” thick 14” and more thick 28” and more thick recoverable, coven nd
in county, outcrop, | 0” to 14” iginally, | acres | remaining, | indicated Thousands | including all eserves 25°
coe | et | Stee | eae] Mr oo ners | Mggam® | aces [Param | acme [ Maram | noes | Marae | see [ent | iors] tn
Measured - - - - a2 en 82 6m 82 671 Mo
Williamson .... | 119,2U] 86,0944 32,949 - 201 ng 82 | Indicated] - - - - - - - - - - -
Total - - - - 82 6m [3 67 82 677 60.5 Mo
Measured - - - - 1,194 10,030 | 1,194 10,030 1,194} 10,030 6,068
Pikeville ..... | 87,537] 71.114 14,733 - 1,685 - 1,685 | Indicated|  - - - - ce a wy 41a gn] 422 2,495
Total | - - - - 1,685 | 14,158 | 1,685 24,154 1,685| 14,154 60.5 8,563
Measured - - - - 1,276 | 10,707 | 1,276 10,707 1,276| 10,707 6,478
Indicated | - - - - N91 41a Ng. 4,128 yg} 4,124 2,495
otal esse» | 206,781 | 157,213 47,682 - 1,886 ng 1,767 fotal | - - - - 1,767 | 14,8m | 1,767 14,831 1,767} 14,831 60.5 8,973
‘TABLE 3. - RESERVES IN WINIFREDZ HED, Jamuary 1, 1948
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 | 0 [un] 2 fs tfiu is | 16 Lv [ i 19 20
‘Areas | Coal over Estimated coal reserves, in tons of 2,000 Ib. Total reserves, in tons of 2,000 Ib. Estimated
Area of Area | Underlain thi Coal over Percentage
Quadrangle Iquadrangle| ce" | outside | by coal ence’ | Mined out, | 14° thick | Measured | 14> t028* thick | _28"to 42 thick Over 42” thick 14” and mare thick [287 and more thick | recoverable, | _Tecoverable
in county, | estimate, | outcrop, | O7to14" | cicinaiy, | acres | remaining, | Indicated Thousands Thousands Thousands | including all }reserves 28°
acres | facet | “aces | tek ares | ee oes sores | Marsa | sere [Tears | aces | Maem | aces | Tetear | sees [Tozer | mining ees MO
Measured | - - 3 178 us nh wT 1,092 mT | 1,092 601
Harold ssseee 4g, UK6 | 22,547 | 26,397} = 502 - 502 | Indicated] - - 35 | 1,864 | - - 355 1,864 355 | 1,864 1,025
Total | - - 388 2,042 nb Cry 52 2,956 502 2,956 2/55.0 1,626
Measured Nog 1,045 1,355 6,422 | 4,605 31.20 | 6,369 45,158 5.960 | 43,713 27,670
Williamson .. 119, 244 | 10,898 | 99,555 153 8,638 453 8,185 | Indicated 4g 15h 967 5,161 ‘800 7.128 | 1,816 12,043 1,767 | 12,289 1.119
Totel| 458 1,599 2,322 | 11,583 | 5,405 Wilag | 8,185 51.601 1.727 | 56,002 63-3 35.9
Measured | - - - - wo 2.6m wo 26m jlo 26m 1,579
Matewan ..... 50,660 89 | 4,g9} = 652 17 535 | Indicated} - - - - 225 2, 225 2,067 225 | 2,067 1,137
Total | - - - - 535 4,938 535 4,938 535 4,938 2/5520 2,76
Measured | - - - - 1,187] 10,327 | 1,187 10,327 | 1,187 | 10,327 5.680
87,537) 1,712 | 83,197) - 2,628 - 2,628 | Indicated | - 806 | 3,7kS 635 5.398 | 1, 9,146 [1M | 9,186 5,030
Total | - - 806 | 3,748 | 1,822] 15,725 | 2,628 19.473 | 2,625 | 19,473 | 2/55.0 10,710
| Measured | - - - - ne Bah ne sa ne oy N86
Regina ....+. Hl 136,536 | - 136,046 - 490 a 469 | Indicated | - - - - aT 2,999 31 2,999 351 2,999 1,69
H Total | - - - - N69 3.883 N69 3,883 LE) 34883, 2/550 2,135
Measured | 409 1,5 | 1,388 | 6,600 | 6,328 52,287 | 8,125 60,332 | 7.716 | 58,887 36,016
Indicated} 49 154 | 2,228 | 10,773 | 2,017 17,592 | 4,19 28,519 | 4,185 | 28,365 16,620
Total ..-+- 443,423 | 35,246 | 395,114 153 12,910 5a 12,319 Total | 458 1,599 | 3.56 | 17.372 | 8.345 | 69,879 [12,319 6,8 fan.s61_| 87,252 Go.¥9 | 52,636

L/ No information available from core drilling, mine workings, or coal outcrops on which to base estimates of
measured and indicated reserves. These areas may contain additional geologically inferred reserves.

2/ Estimated -T- 4205


ESTIMATE OF KNOWN RECOVERABLE RESERVES OF COKING
COAL IN PIKE COUNTY, KY.

by

James J. Dowd, 2/ Louis A. Turnbull, 2/ Albert L. Toenges, 2/
R. F. Abernethy,2/ and D. A. Reynolds4/

CONTENTS

Page

Conclusions .. see e eee eeeee

Introduction .

Acknowledgments .. eocceeee

Premises and definitions of terms used

Coal reserves ....

Coal beds ......

Winifrede .

Fire Clay .
Whitesburg

Upper Elkhorn No. 3 ...cceeeeeeeee
Upper Elkhorn No. 2 ....ceceeeeeee
Upper Elkhorn No. 1
Lower Elkhorn
Bingham ...
Millard

Auxier .
Elswick .

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1/ Senior mining engineer, Coal Branch, Fuels and Explosives Division,
Bureau of Mines, Pittsburgh, Pa.

2/ Principal coal mining engineer, Fuels and Explosives Division,
Bureau of Mines, Pittsburgh, Pa.

3/ Chemist, Coal Analysis Section, Coal Branch, Fuels and Explosives
Division, Bureau of Mines, Pittsburgh, Pa.

4/ Chemist, Coal Carbonization Section, Coal Branch, Fuels and
Explosives Division, Bureau of Mines, Pittsburgh, Pa,

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Report of Investigations 4792


‘TARLE 9, - HESERVES IN UPPER ELEHOES MO. ) BED, Jemuary 1, 1945

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 JT 0 Tu] 2s [| 1s | 16 | a 19 20
Area of on ‘Area u in Pree Coal over Estimated coal reserves, in tons of 2,000 Ib. Total reserves, in tons of 2,000 Ib. Estimated
Quadrangle {quadrangle} "from | outside | by coal in place | Mined out, | 14” thick | Measured [14° to 28° thick 28° to 42” thick (Over 42” thick 14” and more tick] 26° and mere thick | recoverable, ecoven ‘snd
in county, | estimate, | outcrop, | O° #0 14" | originally, | 26reS | remaining, | Indicated Thousands “Thousands Thousands Thousands | including al thi
acres | afacres | acres | thick, acres | acres acres acres | ortons | MS | ottons | AS | oftons | ATES | of tons pares or tons | mining 15505 Tons of tons
Measured - - 183] 1,043 Nea | 3,808 On key Ow] 4,847 2.73%
Harold ssseee 49,6] Mn,764] 3,124 | 2/229 4,329 603 3,726 | Indicated 337] 1.23 | 2.75 | wom | - - 3,082 | 15,264 2,745] Us,051 1.9%
Total 337] 1.213 | 2,928 | 25,094 Mer | 3.808 | 3,726 20,111 3.389] 18,898 56.4 10,658
Measured | %,ln9/ 14,477 | 6,89% Bue gg2] 6,281 | 12,305 534590 7,886] 39,113 2,054
Williamson .. | 119,244 | 72,466] 13,099 5 33,964 30 | 33,934 | Indicated | 11,358] 35,417 |10,02% | 45,10 2] 1.506 | 21,629 80,124 | 10,271] 4,697 21,
Total | 15.777] 49,894 [16,914 | 76,023 | 1.283] 7.787 [33.954 | 133.708 | 18,157] 83,810 6165 SMS
Measured | 2,504) 8,786 | 11,677 | 60," | 6,560] 46,760 | 20,741 | 115,987 | 18,237] 107,201 67,965
Matewan ..++6 50,660} 6,215] 18,215 486 25,74 2,252 | 23,92 | Indicated} 1,236] 3,913 | 1.515] 7.727 | - - 2,73. 22,640 1,515] 7,727 4,899
otal | 3.740] 12,699 [13,192 | 68,168 | 6,560 | 46,760 [23,492] 127,627 | 19,752 114,928 63.4 72,864
Measured 903} 3.2 | 1,756] 8,956 275 | 1,938 | 2,934 14,135 2,031] 10,894 5,992
Pikeville s+. 87,537| 63,471 | 12,752 - n,mk - 11,314 | Indicatea | 2,768 9.923 | 5,195 | 24,322 ‘a7 2,521 8,380 36,765 5.612 BAZ 14,763
Total} 3,671] 13,16 | 6,9 | 33.277 62] 49 [ams 50,900 7.643] 37.736 | 3/55.0 20,755
Measured 3N3] «1,262 763 | 4,042 2,904 | 1,505 8,208 1,162] 6,946 3,820
Rogina se.s+0 136,536 | 37,122 |2/96,638) 2,786 » 2,752 | Indicated 373) 1.175 MoT | 1.95% a 3.209 | 1,207 6,338 874] 5,163 2,840
Total né 2,437 | 1,170 5.996 866 6,13 2,752 WANS 2,036] 12,109 3/550 6,660
Measured | 1,680] 5,u14 | 1,036] 5.418 | Mo] 2,666 | 3,120 2s 1.0] 8,084 4 WMG
Burley ooseee 43,716] 14,852 |2/18, 628 - 10,236 - 10,236 | Indicated | 4,945] 15,577 | 2,27 9.770 - - 7,116 25,347 2,171] 9,770 55374
Potel | 6,625] 20,991 | 3,207 | 15,188 wou | 2,666 /20,236 38,845 3.611 | 17,854 355.9 94820
Measured - - - - - - - - - - -
Pound s.ssee0 12,825] 9,562 | 2/3,264) = - - - Indicated | = - - - - = : : : z
total | = - - = - - - = - - =
Measured | 9,849} 33,180 | 22,309 | 112,732 | 9,091 | 64.353 flA.29 | 210,265 | 31,400 | 177,085
Indicated | 21,017| 67,218 |22,053 | 1or.aa4 | 1,235 | 7.236 |W4,205 | 175,468 __| 23,188 | 108,250
Total ..-+- | 499,964 | 2W4,W 1165,720/ 2.430 88,373 209 | 85,454 Total | 30,866] 100,398 |¥4,362 | 223,746 [20,226 | 72.589 [85,454 | 385.733 | 54.586 | 285,335 60.u4
y Mo information available from core drilling, mine workings, or coal outcrops on which to base estimates
of measured and indicated reserves. These areas may contain additional geologically inferred reserves.
2/ Upper Elkhorn Ho. 1 and No. 2 beds come together and are mapped as Uvper Eikhorn Wo. 2. B ses

‘3/ Estimated.


Bureau of Mines
Report of Investigations 4792

ESTIMATE OF KNOWN RECOVERABLE RESERVES
OF COKING COAL IN PIKE COUNTY, KY.

By JAMES J. Dowb, Louis A. TURNBULL, ALBERT L. TOENGES,
R. F. ABERNETHY, AND D. A. REYNOLDS

United States Department of the Interior— May 1951
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This is the third of a series of reports giving results of studies by
counties under part (1) of the investigation.5/ This report covers Pike
County, Ky., which comprises parts of the Harold, Williamson, Matewan, Gilbert,
Pikeville, Regina, Hurley, Pound, and Clintwood quadrangles, (See fig. 1.)

A base map for each bed in each quadrangle was made to the scale of 1
inch equals 1,200 feet. Maps of mines, locations of drill holes, bed and total
coal thicknesses, and the outcrop of the bed were plotted on the maps, With
all available data plotted, isopach lines were drawn to limit areas of known
unmined reserves in beds 0 to 14 inches thick, 14 to 28 inches thick, 28 to
42 inches thick, and over 42 inches thick. These areas of coal reserves also
were divided into "measured" and "indicated" categories. All areas in each
thickness range and in each category, mined-out areas, areas excluded from
the estimate but which may contain reserves based only on geologic inference,
and areas outside of the outcrop were measured by planimeter on the base maps.
Estimates of total reserves 14 inches and more thick and maps for individual
beds were prepared from these data.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The information contained in this report could not have been obtained
without the whole-hearted cooperation of the officials of the companies and
individual landowners whose property records were studied, and their coopera-
tion and the courtesies extended are gratefully acknowledged. The advice and
assistance of the Coal Resources Committees of both the National Bituminous
Coal Advisory Council and American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engi-
neers, members of the staffs of the United States Geological Survey, Kentucky
Geological Survey, Kentucky Department of Mines and Minerals, coal operator
associations, and consulting mining engineers are appreciated. The investi-
gation was under the general supervision of the principal coal-mining engi-
neer, Bituminous Codl Mining Section, Coal Branch, Fuels and Explosives
Division, Bureau of Mines, and the cooperation of the staff assigned to this
study, particularly Willard A. Cole, mining engineer, Bureau of Mines, who
conducted the field work, is acknowledged.

5/ Dowd, James J., Turnbull, Louis A., Toenges, Albert L., Cooper, H. M.,
Abernethy, R. F., Reynolds, D. A., and Fraser, Thomas: Estimate of
Known Recoverable Reserves of Coking Coal in Cambria County, Pa.:
Bureau of Mines Rept. of Investigations 4734, 1950, 25 pp.

Dowd, James J., Turnbull, Louis A., Toenges, Albert L., Cooper, H. M.,
Abernethy, R. F., Reynolds, D, A., and Crentz, William A., Estimate
of Known Recoverable Reserves of Coking Coal in Indiana County, Pa.:
Bureau of Mines Rept. of Investigations 4757, 1950, 22 pp.

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CONCLUSIONS

1. The investigation shows that there are four coal beds of major impor-
tance in Pike County: Upper Elkhorn No. 3, Upper Elkhorn No. 2, Upper Elkhorn
No. 1, and Lower Elkhorn. Beds of secondary importance are the Winifrede,
Williamson, and Bingham. Ten other beds, in addition to numerous uncorrelated
lenses, are of minor importance.

2. Known (measured plus indicated) reserves in all beds based on a mini-
mum bed thickness of 14 inches and 1,800 tons per acre-foot of coal in place,
are estimated at 3,916 million short tons as of January 1, 1948. Of this total,
3,189 million tons are in beds 28 inches and more thick, All known reserves
in Pike County are under less than 2,000 feet of overburden. Areas in each
bed were omitted from the estimate because available data relative to the bed
characteristics are insufficient for making an estimate that would conform to
the definitions of measured and indicated coal adopted for this study. Should
future drilling or development prove reserves in these areas, such reserves
should be added to the total estimated reserves.

3. Recoverable reserves of coal 28 inches and more thick have been esti-
mated. This thickness is about the minimum now being mined by hand loading
onto conveyors. The weighted average percentage of recovery for all beds in
Pike County, including all mining losses as determined by this investigation,
is 55.08. This recovery is based on the percentage of the total thickness of
clean coal (less all partings 3/8 inch or more thick) recovered from the mined-
out areas in each bed rather than on the percentage of coal recovered from that
portion of the bed mined. The highest weighted average percentage of recovery
was 65.6 for the Bingham bed in the Regina quadrangle. The lowest was 50.0
percent for the Whitesburg bed in the Matewan quadrangle. Based on the weighted
average percentage of recovery for all beds 28 inches and more thick in Pike
Counted, the recoverable reserves are estimated at 1,757 million tons,

4, The coals of this county are high-volatile A bituminous.

5. The moisture, ash, and sulfur contents of Pike County coals usually
are low. Highly-fissured coke generally is obtained from eastern Kentucky
coals when carbonized singly. However, when blended with coal of higher rank
and carbonized, a strong coke is produced.

INTRODUCTION

The investigation to evaluate the reserves of coking coal is being made
by the Bureau of Mines in three parts: (1) To estimate known (measured plus
indicated) recoverable reserves of all coking coal; (2) to upgrade marginal
coals through effective preparation; and, (3) to study the carbonizing proper-
ties of coal and coal blends not now widely used for metallurgical coke making.

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Material Inches

Laminated coal ..
Shale ........65

COAL ssseeceseecreence
Thickness .

Upper Elkhorn No. 1 Bed
(See fig. 8 and table 9)

The Upper Elkhorn No. 1 bed (also known as the Alma and the Penny) is
approximately 100 feet above the Lower Elkhorn bed, and where mined in the
northeastern part of the county it is 3 to 4 feet thick. It thins to the
west and south. However, in the central-western part of the county, the bed
again thickens to about 3 feet. In the northwestern part of the county the
bed contains several thin partings.

In many localities in the central part of the county, the Upper Elkhorn
No. 1 and No. 2 beds form a single multibedded bed, and in these areas the
bed has been mapped as Upper Elkhorn No. 2. Sections of the bed in areas
of recoverable reserves follow:

Northeastern Part of County

Material Inches . Material Inches
» 6 COAL we eeueeeeeee ue
Bone . 1/4 Thickness ............ 37-1/2
» 29-1/2
Thickness ........ - 35-3. 4
1
COAL weveccecesesecece 6
Thickness ....... 1
28
COAL .... 1
Parting COAL wecseceee 4
COAL . Thickness . . iS
Parting
COAL ....
Thickness ..

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Sree intet en tn a ek
Hem
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Figure 11. - Millard bed, Pike County, Ky., Jan. !, 1948.


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Figure 2. - Winifrede bed, Pike County, Ky., Jan. |, 1948.


TABLE 19. - Analyses of Pike County coals

As
Kind of | received Dry basis
Location Bed Renk1/| sample2/|"Moist. |Vol.[¥.c.|Ash|Sul.[B.t.u,
T 2 3 in ~ 5 él 7/819 10
JOHNS sevevececees Winifrede Hvab M “4.9 ~137.8/56.0/6.2 [0.7 | 13, 760
(Flatwoods)
Rural ......eeeeee . do. M 5.4 139.2157.5]3.3] .6 | 14,520
Ransom ...ecseeeee Fire Clay do. M 3.1 |36.6/56.616.8] .7 | 14,020
(Taylor)
Simers . do. do. M 3.0 ]35.1/60.5)4.4] .5 | 14,470
Boldman Pire Clay do. M 4.5 |38.2/56.0]/5.8] .8 | 14,010
(Bevins)
Goody .....seee see Williamson do. M 2.9 |40.4)53.4)6.2 13.0 | 14,060
Betsy Layne .|Upper Elkhorn No. 3] do. M 4.3 [38.4)57.5]4.111.1 | 14,200
. do. do. M 3.8 |36.8/56.2/5.1]1.1 | 14,100
. do. do. M 3.4 | 36.7|56.8]4.5 |2.0 | 14,290
Upper Elkhorn No. 2! do. M 4.3 |36.6160.3/3.1] .7 | 14,440
do. do. M 3.2 |34.3]60.515.2 2.1 | 14,340
Nellier do. do. M 3.0 |32.81/64.6/2.6] .6 | 14,8h0
Lookout . do. do. M 3.1 |36.1]62.1]1.8] .6 | 14,960
Boldman . Upper ray No. 1] do. M 4,6 138.0/58.3]3.7] .9 | 14,340
Alma)
Elkhorn City . do. do. M 2.3 135.3/61.213.5] .5 | 14,860
McCarr .. . do. do. M 2.8 134.71/60.6]4.7]) .7 | 14,430
McCarr . sees do. do. M 2.7 |34.6161.9]3.5] .5 | 14,770
Vulcan (W. Va.)... do. do. M 2.7 |35.5/61.6/2.9] .5 | 14,9h0
ALEX wecseeseeeee Lower Elkhorn do. M 3.4 135.2161.7/3.1] .5 | 14,650
(Pond Creek)
Dunleary .....ee08 do. do. M 2.4 |32.7/63.0]4.3] .6 | 14,600
Elkhorn City . do. do. M 2.6 133.7/62.0]4.3] .6 | 14,640
Goody ..... . do. do. M 3.2 135.3]60.314.4] .5 | 14,360
. do. do, M 2.4 134.7)59.7|5.6] .6 | 14,300
do. do. M 4.0 |33.7/64.3]2.0] .5 | 14,890
do. do. M 2.8 |34.3161.0]4.7] .7 | 14,630
do. do. T 2.8 |34.6/56.6/6.8] .5 | 14,220
do. do. M 2.8 |34.8160.5]4.7] .5 | 14,450
Bingham do. M 1.1 |34.8]57.5|7.7 2.0 | 14,290
do. do. M 3.5 |31.0]59.419.6] .9 | 13,510
Fishtrap
1-2/3 mi. NE. of Millard do. M 3.1 |32.0159.6]8.4] .6 | 13,930
Jamboree
1/3 mi. SW. of do. do. M 1.7 ]32.3/61.216.5] .6 | 14,480
Nigh
3/4 mi. NW. of do. do, M 2.0 |33.3159.1]7.6] .9 | 14,250
Praise . Auxier do. M 2.3 |30.8/59.6|9.6 12.5 | 13,950
Praise do. M 1.8 |32.5/62.1}5.4|1.2 | 14,630
Praise . do. M 2.1 _}30.3}/60.6]9.1J2.7 | 14,000

2/ Mz ine sample; T = Tipple sample.

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‘TABLE 6, - RESERVES IN WILLIAMSON BED, January 1, 1946

1 2 3 4 5 6 “7 8 9] 0 [uf 2 [3 | 1s | 16 L.7 [18 19 20
react | excluded | Area | Underain | {4% tne Coal over Estimated coal reserves, in tons of 2,000 Ib. Total reserves, in tons of 2,000 Ib. Percentage | _ tiated
Quadrangle quadrangle| “trom | outside yen in place. | Mined out, | 14 thick | Measured 14” to 28” thick 28” to 42” thick Over 42” thick 14” and more thick | 28” and more thick | recoverable, | fecoveraple
in county, | estimate, | outcrop, | 071018" | originaly, | a¢tes | remaining, | Indicated Thousand: Thousands Thousands Thousands Thousands | including all thick,
acres | J acres | acres | thick acres | OTrCres acres Acres | Mortons | Actes | ottons | Aeres | "ortons | Actes | ortans | Ae*S | ortons | "ira 1552S | nousands of tons
Measured 923 3,110 835 3,616 | = - 1,758 6,726 835| 3,616 1,916
Harold ss++ee 4g,WH6 | 43,209] 4,479) = 1,758 - 1,758 | Indicated | - - - = - - - - - - -
Total 923 3,110 835 3,616 - - 1,758 6,726 835| 3,616 2) 53.0 1,916
Measured mé | 1,580 | 3,451 | 17,885 | 9,264] 65,860 | 13,231] 85,325 | 22,715] 83, 745 50, 666
Williamson .. 129,244 | 58,267 | 34,076 70 26,831 2,554 24,277 | Indicated | 1,671 5,075 7,112 | 36,677 | 2,263 14,290 | 11,046) 56,042 9,375| 50,967 30,835,
Total | 2,187 6,655 | 10,563 54,562 | 11,527 80,150 | 24,277) 141,367 22,090 | 134,712 60.5 81,501
Measured | 1,670 5.485 147k 7,383 | 5,849 45,475 8,993 58,343 7,323) 52,858 28,015
Matewan ..+6 50,660] 4,708} 33,069 - 12,883 288 12,595 | Indicated 5o4 1,692 684 2,930 | 2,354 16,032 3,602 20,654 3,038} 18,962 10,050
Total | 2,234 TAIT 2,158 | 10,313 | 8,203 61,507 | 12,595 78,997 10,361 | 71,820 53.0 38,065
Measured 4g 1gh 515 2,760 | = - 623 2,954 575| 2,760 1474
Pikeville ... 87,537 | 73,228] 9,219 - 5,090 26 5,064 | Indicated | 1,567 4,767 1,547 6,998 | 1,327 11,346 Yuba 23,111 2,874 | 18,344 9,796
Total | 1,615 4,961 2,122 9,758 | 1,327 11, 346 5,064 26,065 3,449] 22,104 53.4 11,270
Measured 178 561 WW 226 Be 950 357 1,737 179{ 1,276 62:
40,612] 19,899] 18,741 225 1,747 - 1,747 | Indicated 360 972 1k 496 916 5,908 1,390 1,376 1,030] 6,404 3,39!
Total 538 1,533 161 722 | 1,048 6,858 1.747 9,113 1,209] 7,580 2) 5360 4,017
Measured JOT 2,516 155 64 | = - 862 3,200 155 684 363
Pound s.-+.00 12,825] 5,480} 5,768 - 1,577 - 1,577 | Indicated 685 1,764 30 126 - - 715 1,890 30 126 67
Total | 1,392 4,280 185 810 - - 1,577 5,090 185 810 2/ 53.0 430
Measured | 4,ol2 | 13,46 | 6,537 | 32,554 | 15,245 | 122,285 | 25,824) 158,285 | 21,782 | 144,859 83.057
Indicated | 4,847 | 14,270 9,487 | 47,227 | 6,860 47,576 | 2,194} 109,073 16,347 | 944,803 he
Total ..... 360,324 | 204,791 | 105,352 295 4g, 886 2,868 47,018 Total | 8,889 | 27,716 {16,024 | 79,781 | 22,105 | 159,862 | 47,018] 267,358 38,129 | 239,642 57-25 | 137,199
“L/ No information available from core drilling, mine workings, or coal outcrops on which to base estimates of
measured and indicated reserves. These areas may contain additional geologically inferred reserves. ,
2/ Estimated -- 225


Material Inches
COAL .eceeeseeeee 28
Parting . 1
COAL .eceeseee 12
Thickness ..... Wr
Laminated coal ....seseeeeeee 1D
COAL cececcecceveceeee ow iL

Thickness, upper bench.. 30
Interval - 13 feet

COAL .esecseccccceeecesecseee Ol

COAL cecereeescesaceeeere 1.
Thickness, lower bench... 73

Material

Inches

Bone weveeeeoees
COAL .

Southwestern Part of County

Material

10-1/2
4-1/2

15

18-1/2

Thickness ....eeeeeseeee

COAL wc ccceececcececccceceees 36
Parting ....
COAL ..eeeee

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Inches

Thickness ............ 67
Material Inches
COAL ... oe ~ Oh
Parting ... . 1/2
COAL .... . 12
Parting . 8
COAL eee - 2h
Thickness ............ 66-1/2
COAL .eeeeeee « he
Parting . . 12
COAL ... » 2
Thickness ........026. 79
COAL secceecesscccceeeseeee 1
Parting . » ll
COAL ..eeee » 5
Parting ... » ie
Laminated coal . . 1
COAL ..eeeeeee - 12
Parting . ~ 4
COAL .... « 22
Parting . 18
COAL .eeeeeeeeee + 26
Thickness ... . lle



Eastern Part of County

Material Inches Material Inches
4 COAL ..... 3
1/4 Parting 1-1/2
2-1/2 COAL ... 12
Parting 1
COAL ..eeeeee 22
39-1/2
h
1/4 Thickness ...
lt
35

Auxier Bed
(See fig. 12 and table 15)

There is considerable controversy as to whether or not the Auxier bed is
correlated with the Splash Dam bed. In this report, the names are used synon-
ymously. At and near the Virginia line, the Auxier bed is 3 to 4 feet thick,
but it thins to the west and north. Sections of the bed in areas of recover-
able reserves follow:

Southeastern Part of County

Material Inches Material Inches

COAL .....
Parting
COAL .....

COAL ...4
Parting
COAL ..eee

n eS)
FJORD URE

Thickness ...

COAL COAL ..... seeeeeeeeee Ob
Parting . w. 2-1/2

COAL ..... : + 7
Thickness ...... 33-1/2

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Figure 6. - Upper Elkhorn No. 3 bed, Pike County, Ky., Jan. I, 1948.




Southern Part of County

Material Inches Material Inches
COAL ... 8 COAL .. 12
Parting 1 Parting 8-1/2
COAL ... 27-1/2 COAL ..eeeeeee 10
Parting aoe 5 Laminated coal 5
COAL .escueeeee COAL .ecseeeee 3

Laminated coal .
COAL weceeeeee
Laminated coal

Thickness

Laminated coal .
COAL .ecceeeeees
Thickness ..

COAL wees
Parting
COAL ...
Parting
COAL ..0ee
Thickness .

Eire Clay Bed
(See fig. 3 and table 4)

The Fire Clay bed (also known as the Taylor, Chilton, Upper Bevins, and
Hazard No. 4) is approximately 600 feet above the Lower Elkhorn bed. It has
a@ very wide range in bed thickness. In the eastern. part of the county, the
lower bench is separated from the upper part of the bed by as much as 40 feet.
Known reserves mapped for this bed lie in the northern, eastern, and south-
western parts of the county, Sections of the bed in areas of recoverable
reserves follow:

Northeastern Part of County

Material Inches Material Inches
COAL .....
Parting
COAL ...
Parting .. Thickness ......
COAL wevveeeees
Parting on COAL weceeesceccesecceseces 28
COAL ..ceeeeee Thickness ............ 25
Thickness .

COAL veseeeeeeeecerecceeeeeee 43
Thickness ........eeeeee 3

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TAHLE 15, - RESERVES IN AUXIZR 32D, January 1, 1948

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 |] ow [| uf wz fs | 1is_| 16 Li ][ is 19 20
Areas Coal over Estimated coal reserves, in tons of 2,000 Ib. Total reserves, in tons of 2,000 Ib. Estimated
Quadrang! Area of | excluded | Afea | Underlain | 14% thick, Coal over - — — ra Ta | parca meena] Percentase | recoverable
gle quadrangtel fom | outside | by coal in place” | Mined out,| 14”thick | Measured [ 14” to 28” thick 28” to 42” thick Over 42” thick 14” and more thicl andmore tick | recoverable, | tee 28" ond
in county, | estimate, | outcrop, | 0” t0 14” | originally, | ac"es | remaining, | Indicated Thousand: Thousands Thousands Thousands Thousands | including a thick,
acres | ‘acres | acres | thick acres |" sores acres Acres | Nortons | eres | “ottons | Aeres | “ottons | Aeves | oftons | Aes | orton | mine 188eS stands of tons
Measured 69 186 302 1,540] = - an. 1,726 302 1,540 T710
Matewan «+++. 50,660] 46,999] 1,346 - 2,315 - 2,315 | Indicated] 1,944 5,249 - - - - 1,944 5,249 - - -
Total | 2,013 5,435 302 1,540 - - 2,315 6,975 302 1,540 2/50.0 TIo
Measured | 2,352 8,398 | 2,663 | 13,141 982 6,650 | 5,997 28,189 3,645 | 19,791 9,895
Regina .....+ 136,536 | 111,936] 4,821 - 19,779 167 19,612 | Indicatdd | 11,279 39,054 | 2,336] 11,672 - - 13,615 50,726 2,336 | 11,672 5,836
Total | 13,631 47,452 | 4,999 | 24,813 982 6,650 | 19,612 78,915 5,981 | 32,463 2/50.0 15,731
Measured | 1,554 5.785 | 1,859 9,607 - - ZM13, 15,392 1,859 9,607 4,804
Burley .-.+++ 43,716] 32,511] 1,316 255 9,634 - 9,634 | Indicated] 5,904 15,75. 317 1,522 - - 6,221 17,273 BT 1,522 761
Total | 7,458 21,536 | 2,176] 11,129 - - 9,634 32,665 2,176 | 11,129 2/5020, 5,565
Measured | 3,975 14,369 | 4,824 | 24,288 982 6,650 | 9,781 45,307 5,806 | 30,938 15,469
Indicated | 19,127 60,054 | 2,653 | 13,194 - - 21,780 73,248 2,653 | 13,194 6,597
Total s+... 230,912] 191,446 | 7,483 255 31,728 167 31,561 Total | 23,102 74,423 | 7,477 | 37,482 982 6,650 | 31,561 118,555 8,459 | 44,132 2/50.0 22,066
TABLE 16. — RESERVES IN UPPER BANNER BED, January 1, 1948
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 [| 0 [u [ei fs fou is [ 16 Liv [is 19 20
Areas Coal over j Estimated coal reserves, in tons of 2,000 Ib. Total reserves, in tons of 2,000 Ib. Estimated
quecrangle Area of | exctuded | Ata | Underlain | 14” thick, Coal over —— —— — = ~ _ - Percentage | eeivorable
quadrangle) rom | outside | by coal in place | Mined out, | 14” thick Measured 14” to 28” thick 28” to 42” thick Over 42” thick 14” and more thick | 28” and more thick recoverable; | eevee 28” and
in county, estimate, | outcrop, | 0”to14” | Cigna, | acres | remaining, | Indicate " Thousand Thousand Thousands | including al
acres Vacres acres | thick, acres | N82" acres Acres | Thousands | pores | Thousands | gcreg | Thousands | Acres oftons | Aes |" ortong | mining losses | more thick
Measured 698 2,434 897 4,747 un 3,295 | 2,066 10,476 1,368 8,042 4,021
136,536 | 131,083| 1,405 3 4,045 72 | 3,973 | Indicated 679 2,138 | 1,228 6,4ks. - - 1,907 8,586 1,228 6, 4s 3,224
Total | 1,377 4,572 | 2,125] 11,195 un 3,295 | 3,973 19,062 2,596 | 14,490 2/50.0 7,245
Measured 698 2,434 aor | M747 wn 3,295 | 2,066 10,476 | 1,368 | s,0l2 4,021
Indicated 679 2,138 | 1,228 6, us - - 1,907 8,586 1,228 6,4us 3,224
Total .... 136,536 | 131,083] 1,405 3 4,05, Tz 3,973 Total | 1,377 4572 | 2,125 | 11,195 un 3,295 | 3,973 19,062 | 2,596 | 14,490 | 2/50.0 7.245
TABLE 17. - RESERVES IN ELSWICK BED, January 1, 1948
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 [To Tufye [ul is | 16 Lv [is 19 20
‘Areas Coal i it i i
Quadrangle Area of | excluded ‘Area | Underlain | 14” thick, Coal over Estimated coal reserves, i tons of 2,000. Total reserves, in tons of 2,000 Ib Percentage Estimated
auacranatel “from | outside | by coal in place | Mined out) 14” thick | Measured [ 14” to 28” thick 28” to 42” thick Over 42” thick 14” and more thick | 28” and more thick | recoverable, | fecoverable’
in county, estimate, | outcrop, | O”to14” | cicinaiy, | acres | remaining, | indicated Thousands Thousands Thousand Thousand Thousands | including all 4
Measured 60 aug giz 4,652 78 503 1,050 54397 990] 5,254 3,221
50,660] 47,298 595 - 2,767 - 2,767 | Indicates] 720 2,916 997 5,085 | = - 1,717 8,001 997] 5.085 3,178
Total | 780 3.159 | 1,909] 9,736 8 503 | 2,767 13,398 1,987| 10,239 62.5 6,399
Measured | - - 1.415] 7,853 | 206 1,329 | 1,62 9,182 1,62] 9,182 5.739
Regina 136,536 131,039 896 - 4, 601 yee 4,179 | Indicated! - - 2,311 | 11,786 247 1,593 2,558 13,379 2,558] 13,379 8,362
Total | - - 3,726 | 19,639 453 2,922 4,179 22,561 4,179] 22,561 62.5 24,201
Measured | 157 589 a7 1,857 | = - 584 2, U6 ue7] 1,8 1,261
Burley ....+ 43,716] 41,854 226 - 1,756 - 1,756 | Indicatea| 1,172 4,395, - - - - 1,172 4,395 - - oT -
Total | 1,329 4,984 NeT 1,857 | - - 1,756 6,842 427] 1,857 62.5 1,161
Measured a7 832 | 2,754] 14,362 28h 1,832 3,255 17,025 3,038] 16,193 10,12
Indicated | 1,892 7,312 | 3,308 | 16,871 | 2k7 1,593 | 5.447 25,775 3,555| 18,464 11,540
Total .... 230,912} 220,191] 1,717 - 9,124 422 8,702 Total | 2,109 8,143 6,062 3l,232 531 3,425, 8,702 42,800 6,593| 34,657 62.5 2,661
1/ No information available from core drilling, mine workings, or coal outcrops on which to base estimates of
measured and indicated reserves. These areas may contain additional geologically inferred reserves,
2/ Estimated -16-

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Eastern Part of County

Material Inches
COAL .....e.0e 1
Shale ...... 1/2
COAL .....4% + 10
Rash ... 17
COAL . . 19
Shale ~ 4-1/2
COAL . sees 5-1/2
Shale . 4
COAL ... 8

ThickneSS ...cccecccvee 79-1/2

Upper Elkhorn No, 3 Bed
(See fig. 6 and table 7)

The Upper Elkhorn No. 3 bed (also kmown as the Thacker and Cedar Grove)
is 60 to 100 feet above the Upper Elkhorn No. 2 or approximately 250 feet
above the Lower Elkhorn. It is multibedded, and in some areas it occurs in
two benches separated by a thick parting. Ordinarily, the bed is 3 to 4 feet
thick but attains a maximum of 112 inches (including 42 inches of partings)
in the southern part of the county. Known reserves are mapped adjacent to
mine workings in the northeastern, northwestern, and southwestern parts of
the county. Sections of the bed in areas of recoverable reserves follow:

Northeastern Part of County

Material Inches Material Inches

COAL .... »
Parting » 6
COAL . » ol
Parting - 12
COAL ... » 3
Parting ° 1
COAL .... . 17
Parting . 5
COAL ..seeeeee - 20

Thickness . 79

Northwestern Part of County

Material Inches Material Inches
(cc).\ 18 COAL .eeececeesceeceeseeess 20
Parting .......ee05 18 Shale with coal streaks ... 15-1/2
COAL . . 2h COAL . eee 21

Thickness .. . & Thickness ..
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Elswick Bed
(See fig. 13 and table 17)

The Elswick is stratigraphically the lowest correlated bed in the county.
Known reserves are mapped in two small areas in the eastern part of the county.
No drill logs are available from which to determine the extent of the bed.
Thus, the reserve estimates are based on outcrop measurements and bed sections
in mined areas. Sections of the bed in areas of recoverable reserves follow:

Eastern Part of County

Material Inches Material Inches
COAL ceccecccecccccccceesssees 30 COAL .eceececcccoeccece 3

Parting .... wee 9
COAL ..seeeee se eeeees b COAL ...e.0.
Thickness .....seeeesoees Laminated coal

Thickness ........

COAL .

Bone .....eeeee COAL ..... 1-1/2
seuss 1/2

COAL .ecccccessccccecesceceees LT Thickness ......eeeee0- 33

Parting ..
COAL ...seee.

ANALYSES OF PIKE COUNTY COALS

The chemical analyses8/ in table 19 are arranged stratigraphically for
the coal beds. Most of the analyses are of composite samples made by combin-
ing three or more mine samples to obtain a mine average. As these are mine
samples, the quality of the coal indicated is generally higher than that of
tipple samples, The coal classified according to rank falls into the high-
volatile A bituminous group.

The analyses for each bed are arranged alphabetically according to towns,

8/ Bureau of Mines, Analyses of Kentucky Coals: Tech. Paper 652, 1944,
pp. 142-151.

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Figure 10. - Bingham bed, Pike County, Ky., Jan. 1, 1948.


rm tts one 2

—_—

Figure 9. - Lower Elkhorn bed, Pike County, Ky., Jan. 1, 1948.


Clintwood-bed coall3/ from Buchanan County, Va., which correlates with
the Bingham bed in Pike County, Ky., yielded the highly-fissured coke gener-
ally obtained from eastern Kentucky coals when carbonized singly. Blending
with suitable low-volatile coal would improve the coking property of this
coal.

13/ Fieldner, A. C., Davis, J. D., Thiessen, R., Selvig, W. A., Reynolds,
D. A., Jung, F. W., and Sprunk, G. C., Carbonizing Properties and
Petrographic Composition of Clintwood-Bed Coal from Buchanan Mines
Nos. 1 and 2, Buchanan County, Va.: Bureau of Mines Tech. Paper
570, 1936, 33 pp.

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Interior - Bureau of Mines, Pittsburgh, Pa.


PREMISES AND DEFINITIONS OF TERMS USED

An estimate of coal reserves is the opinion of an individual or a group
of individuals based on certain premises and limitations adopted for that
estimate. Therefore, in order to make a comparison between estimates, it is
necessary to compare not only the final results but also the premises on which
the estimates are based. The definitions "measured" and "indicated" coal used
in this report have been agreed upon by the Bureau of Mines and the U. S.
Geological Survey. The premises and definitions of terms follow:

Coking coal. - All bituminous coals in the Appalachian region are poten-
tially coking, and, therefore, until the carbonization tests in part 3 of the
study have been completed to determine the coking quality of the coals, all
known reserves of coal in the county are included as coking coal. This should
not be construed to mean that all coals included in this report are suitable
for the manufacture of metallurgical coke according to present-day standards.
However, the general trend is toward the use of lower-quality coals for
metallurgical purposes.

Unit area, - The unit area used in estimating reserves is the 5-minute
rectangle of the topographic quadrangle. The estimates for the nine 5-minute
rectangles of a quadrangle are combined on a county basis.

Bed thickness range. - Reserves in each coal bed are tabulated in bed-
thickness ranges as follows:

14 to 28 inches
28 to 42 inches
42 ‘inches and more

These measurements represent total bed thickness, including all coal and
partings in the bed, If the top or bottom bench of a coal bed is separated
from the remainder of the bed by a parting of equal or greater thickness and
usually is not mined, such bench and partings are omitted in determining the
bed thickness.

Measured coal. - Measured coal is coal for which tonnage is computed
from dimensions revealed in outcrops, trenches, mine workings, and drill holes.
The points of observation and measurement are so closely spaced, and the thick-
ness and extent of the coal are so well-defined that the computed tonnage is
Judged to be accurate within 20 percent or less of the true tonnage. The limits
of accuracy of the estimate should be stated. Although the spacing of the
points of observation necessary to demonstrate continuity of coal will vary
in different regions according to the habit of the coal beds, the points of
observation are, in general, of the order of 1/2 mile apart. The outer limit
of a block of measured coal, therefore, shall be of the order of 1/4 mile from
the last point of positive information (that is, roughly, one-half the distance
between points of observation).

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Material

COAL we cece eeesecececsceeeees 17

Parting see . . 2
COAL .ceeeeeee eeoee LD

Thickness ,.. 30
COAL .. oe 13
Parting weee 6
COAL ... we 2
Parting ...eeeee . 1
COAL .eceeseceees seeeeeee 29

Thickness, upper bench.. 51

Interval - 16 feet

COAL .eeeeeeveee
Parting . 1
COAL .. eee eeeeee eoee lL

Thickness, lower bench., 21

Material Inches
COAL .ecceereccece 2h
eee 2
COAL secccceeees 4
Thickness ......... 30

Williamson Bed

(See fig. 5 and table 6)

The Williamson bed (also known as the Amburgy and Low Splint) is 290 to

350 feet above the Lower Elkhorn,

It is 40 to 130 feet (commonly 60 feet)

above Elkhorn No. 3 bed. Generally, it is 4 to 5 feet thick in the northern

part of the county but thins to the south.

In the eastern part of the county

it becomes dirty. A large reserve is in the northern part of Pike County.
Sections of the bed in areas of recoverable reserves follow:

Northern Part of County

Material Inches
12 /
1/2
6
2
28
1
15
2
1

Material Inches

COAL .eeeccevecceecens
Shale ....

Thickness .....

COAL ...

Thickness ........



of the county the thickness of the laminated coal increases up to 18 inches >

which in places is approximately one-third of the bed thickness,

The known

reserves that have been mapped are in the northeastern and southwestern parts

of the county.
follow:

Sections of the bed in the areas of recoverable reserves

Northeastern Part of County

Material Inches
12
D
48
(5)
COAL weeeeeeesece . 17
Laminated coal . «+» 10
COAL .eceeeceeee «. 4e
Thickness .. seeee OD

COAL ..eee
Rash .

COAL . seeeeees - 7
Laminated coal . 8-1/2
. 32
. 2
« 23-1/2
73

Material

COAL ...e0.
Parting
COAL .

Thickness .......0004-

Rash , 1
COAL . 7
Laminated coal .. « 3
COAL .eceeeeeceeeee 28

Thickness, upper bench 39

Interval - 77 inches

Lower bench - 20 inches

Southwestern Part of County

Material Inches

COAL .....

Material Inches
Laminated coal ....... 4
COAL . sees eee de

Thickness ............ 5
COAL ...seeeeeee 1-1/2
Laminated coal . 10
COAL .eeeseeeeee 23-1/2

35



Percentage of recovery. - The weighted average percentage of recovery is
computed for each bed in each quadrangle. The total number of tons of coal
produced from each mine is obtained from either the mine operator or the pub-
lished reports of the Kentucky Department of Mines and Minerals. An estimate
is made of the tons of coal originally in place in the mined-out area of each
mine, The percentage of recovery for each mine is the ratio of the total
number of tons produced from a mine (to January 1, 1948, the date of this
estimate) to the total tons originally in place in the mined-out area. The
weighted average percentage of recovery for all mines in the same bed in a
quadrangle is the percentage of recovery used in calculating recoverable
reserves for that bed in the quadrangle.

All coal remaining for any reason within the mined-out area of a mine
is considered a loss. No distinction is made between avoidable or unavoid-
able losses. Included in these losses is some coal considered too thin to
mine, also coal that legally is required to be left wunmined, such as coal
under some highways, railroads, and rivers; coal left to protect gas and oil
wells; and coal left in barrier pillars between mines and adjacent to property
boundaries.

Recoverable reserves. - The recoverable reserves are estimated tons of
unmined coal in beds 20 inches and more thick, as of the date of the estimate,
multiplied by the percentage of recovery. Twenty-eight inches is about the
minimum thickness of coal being mined mechanically (hand-loaded conveyors) .
Some areas in some of the beds in this county may not be considered economi-
cally minable at present because of conditions considered adverse today.

COAL RESERVES

The large number of coal beds in Pike County present a difficult problem
of correlation. Except for the Elkhorn beds, on which there is general agree-
ment, there are about as many different correlations as there are reports on
the coal beds. Hunt6/ describes 13 valuable beds in the county and states that
there are 48 additional beds that are generally thin but locally minable. The
names of the coal beds given in this report are those most widely used by con-
sulting mining engineers and the larger coal and land companies, However, to
avoid confusion the several names by Which each coal bed is known also are
given. The 17 coal beds, in descending order, for which estimates of reserves
have been made follow:

Name of bed Other names of beds
Hindman No. 9 . High Splint, Lower Kittanning, Richardson
Coalburg ... Hazard 6, Peach Orchard
Winifrede Flatwoods
Fire Clay Taylor, Chilton, Upper Bevins, Hazard 4
Whitesburg ... Lower Bevins, Hernshaw

6/ Hunt, Charles B., Briggs, Guy H., Jr., Munyan, Arthur C., and Wesley,
George R., Coal Deposits of Pike County, Kentucky: U. S. Geol. Survey
Bull. 876, 1937, 92 pp.

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ESTIMATE OF KNOWN RECOVERABLE RESERVES
OF COKING COAL IN PIKE COUNTY, KY.

By JAMES J. DowD. Louis A. TURNBULL, ALBERT L. TOENGES,
R. F. ABERNETHY, AND D. A. REYNOLDS

* «© «* «* « »* « « « Report of Investigations 4792

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Oscar L. Chapman, Secretary
BUREAU OF MINES
James Boyd, Director

Work on manuscript completed September 1950. The Bureau of Mines will welcome reprinting
of this paper, provided the following footnote acknowledgment is made: “Reprinted from
Bureau of Mines Report of Investigations 4792.”

May 1951




TALE 10. - RESERVES IN LOWER ELKHORH BED, January 1, 1948

PIKE County

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 mw | u {| iw [ 13 7 4 is | 16 L.17 [18 19 20
Area of ones. a | Area | Underiain featouer Coal over Estimated coal reserves, in tons of 2,000 Ib. Total reserves, in tons of 2,000 Ib. Percentage Estimated
Quadrangle auasranale from | outside ores in place’ | Mined out, | 14” thick | Measured 14” to 28” thick 28” to 42” thick ‘Over 42” thick 14” and more thick | 28” and more thick | recoverable, estan 4
in county, | estimate, | Outcrop, | 0” to 14” | originally, acres | remaining, | indicated The ds | including all °
acres | T/gcres | acres | thick, acres | Toe) ‘acres scres | Thousands | ores Thousands | pores Thousands | pores Thousands | pores tans | mining losses tno, thick
Measured | 2,089 6,813 | 6,744 | 30,362 | 18,244) 129,843 | 27,077] 167,018 24,988) 160,205 87,632
Williamson .... 119,244} 61,762} 4,188 44 52,820 12,968 39,852 | Indicated] - - 10,932 | 45,913 1,843] 12,717 | 12,775] 58,630 12,775 58,63 32,071
Total | 2,089 6,813 [17,676 | 76,275 | 20,087| 142,560 | 39,852) 225,648 37,763) 218,835 54.7 119,703
Measured 129 ugh | 2,287 | 12,226 | 15,482] 110,565 | 17,898) 122,255 17,769] 122,792) 68,447
Matewan sesseee 50,660] 5,791] 11,570 T 33,292 12,939 20,353 | Indicated] = - 1,997 | 10,025 458 3,160 2,455) 13,185 2,455 13,189 7,410
Total 129 yeu | yesh | 21,252 | 15,940) 113,725 | 20,353} 135,440 20,224] 134,974 56.2 15,857
Measured | 1,060 3,518 | 1,966 9,693 | 10,159] 67,286 | 13,185) 80,497 12,125 16,979 39,952
Pikeville ..... | 87,537| 59,664) 8,985] - 18, 888 605 | 18,283 | Indicated | 859 2,598 930 | 4,381 | 3,309| 20,847 | 5,098] 27,826 4,239] 25, 22 13,093,
Total | 1,919 6,116 | 2,896 | 14,074 | 13,468 88,133 | 18,283] 108,323 | 16,364] 102,207, 51.9 53,045
Measured | 1,896 5,693 | 8,151 | 42,551 | 35,960 288,949 | 46,007] 337,193 M4211 331, 500 171,054
Regina ....-.6. | 136,536| 24,093 | 58,717 - 53,726 4,485 g,241 | Indicatea| - - 1,240 6,510 1,994] 14,787 3,234 21,297 3,234 2,297] 10,989
Total | 1,896 5,693 | 9,391 | 49,061 | 37,954) 303,736 | 49,2k1) 358,490 47,345] 352,797} 51.6 182,043,
Measured : - 994 4,899 | 18,783) 162,94: 19,777| 167,842 19,777| 167, 842} 109,097
Hurley .. 43,716 - 19,470 - 24, 266 1,006 23,20 | Indicated} - - 19h ghe 3,269| 3535 3,463 26,302 3,463, 26, 302} 17,096
Total | - - 1,188 5,847 | 22,052] 188,297 | 23,240] 194,144 23,240} 194,244} 65.0 126,193
Measured 26 86 | 2,481 | 11,909 720 4, 6 3,227) 16,639 3,201 16,553] 8,541
Pound ssseseeee 12,825] 6,394] 1,777 - 4,654 4e 4,612 | Indicated 138 352 | 1,190 5.712 5T 368 1,385 6,432 1,247 6,080] 3,137
Total 164 438 | 3,671 | 17,622 m7 5,012 4,612 23,071 das 22,633] 51.6 11,678
Measured | 5,200 | 16,574 | 22,623 | 110,640 | 99,348) 764,230 |127,171| 891,444 fai,971]| 874,870) Yeh, 723
Indicated 997 2,950 [16,483 | 73,489 | 10,930] 77,233 | 28,410] 153,672 27,413 |__150, 722] 83,796
Total »++++++ | 450,518 | 157,704 | 104,707 4g1 187,626 32,045 | 155,581 Total | 6,197 19,524 | 39,106 | 184,129 | 110,278] 841,463 |155,581] 1,045,116 [49,384] 1,025,592] 55-43 568,519
TABLE 11, - RESERVES IN BINGHAM BED, January 1, 1948
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9] 0 [| u [ 2 fs fT oi 15 16 L.17 [18 19 20
— ; q il f 2,000 tb.
Area of ote area | underlain | Coa! over coal over Estimated coal reserves, in tons of 2,000 Ib. Total reserves, in tons of 2,000 _ Percentage Estimated |
Quadrangle Jquadrangle| “from | outside | by coal in place | Mined out, | 14” thick | Measured 14” to 28” thick 28” to 42” thick Over 42” thick 14” and more thick | 28” and more thick recoverable, | cies 28” and
in county, | estimate, | outcrop, | O° tO 14" | originally, | 26'S | remaining, | Indicated Thousand Thousand Thousands Thousands Thousands | including a ore thick,
acres | TJacres | acres | thick, acres | Ores acres acres | Tortons | Actes | ortons | Actes | of tons | Acres of tons Acres [or tons | Minin OS5ES | noucands of tons
Measured 756 2,042 614 2,306 - - 1,370 4,347 614} 2,306 1,384
Pikeville .. 87,537| 81,596] 4,120] 45D 1,370 - 1,370 | Indicated - - - - - - - - - - -
Total 756} 2,041 ey 2,306 | = - 1,370 4,347 614) = 2,306 60.0 1,384
Measured | 3,465] 10,754 | 12,305] 61,792 | 3,879] 26,801 | 19,649 99.347 | 16,284) 88,593 58,117
Regina 136,536] 65,141] 32,338) 1,790 37,267 209 37,058 | Indicated] 15,925] 47,635 | 1,356 6,353, 128 B42 | 17,409 54,830 a ee 4,720
Total) 19,390] 58,389 | 13,661 | 68,145 | 4,007] 27,643 | 37,058 154,177 17,668] 95,788 65.6 62,837
Measured 1,168 3,855 | 1,461 8,307 | 5,691 | 42,054 8,320 5y,216 7,152] 50,362 29,914
Burley «++. 43,716] 20,486] 8,093) - 15,137 pe 14,825 | Indicated| 3,232] 10,148 | 3,136 | 17,404 137 O45 6,505 28,497 3,273] 18,349 10,899
Total | 4,400] 14,003 | 4,597] 25,711 | 5,828] 42,999 | 14,825 82,713 10,425] 68,710 59.4 40,813
Measured 5,389] 16,650 | 14,. 72,405 | 9,570 | 68,855 | 29,33¢ 157,910 6950] 141,260 89,415
Indicated | 19,157] 57,783 | 4,492 | 23,757 265 1,787 | 23,91! 83,327 6757) 25,544 15,619
Total .... 267,789 | 167,223] M4, 551} 2, 2th 534774 5a 534253 Total | 24,546) 74,433 | 18,872 | 96,162 | 9,835] 70.642 | 53,253 241,237 28,707| 166,804 62.97 105,034
LJ No information available from core drilling, mine workings, or coal outcrops on which to base estimates of
measured and indicated reserves. These areas may contain additional geologically inferred reserves.
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Figure 8. - Upper Elkhorn No. | bed, Pike County, Ky., Jan. I, 1948.


TABLE 18. - Recapitulation of reserves, Pike County, Ky., January 1, 1948

Thousands of tons
In beds In beds Recoverablel/
14" and 28" and Thousands
Bed more thick | more thick | Percentage of tons
1,594 1,594 2750.00 797
Coalburg .. 14,8321 14,831 60.50 8,973
Winifrede . 88,851 87,252 60 49 52,636
Fire Clay . 93,022 83,230 2/50.00 41,615
Whitesburg . . 145,936 128,744 50.00 64,372
Williamson ........ 267, 358 239,642 57.25 137,199
Upper Elkhorn No. 3. 367,637 343, 322 5h.01 185,442
Upper Elkhorn No. 2. 682,187 623,495 51.14 318,852
Upper Elkhorn No. 1. 385,733 285,335 60.44 172,300
Lower Elkhorn ...... 1,045,116 | 1,025,592 55.43 568,519
Bingham ... 241,237 166,804 62.97 105,034
Eagle . 68,594 26,654 2 0.00 13,327
Millard 279,516 59,673 2/53.00 31,626
Hagy . 53,732 9,919 2 10.00 4,960
Auxier .. 118,555 Uy 132 £/50 00 22,066
Upper Banner . 19,062 14,490 5 50.00 7, 2h5
Elswick ... 42,800 4 657 62.50 21,661
Total ........- 3915, 76L | 3,189, 366 55.08 1,756,624

17 Based on reserves in beds 28 inches and more thick.
2/ Estimated.

COAL BEDS

The Hindman 9 bed is at the base of the Allegheny group, Pennsylvanian
period, and all other beds are in the underlying Pottsville group. Hunt7/
gives the estimated interval between the Winifrede (Flatwoods) and the Lower
Elkhorn beds as 700 feet and estimates the interval from the Lower Elkhorn to
the Elswick to be 720 feet. A drill hole in the southeastern part of the
Pikeville quadrangle shows the Hindman bed to be 1,055 feet above the Lower
Elkhorn bed. Thus, the column representing the 17 coal beds from the Hindman
9 down through the Elswick is approximately 1,775 feet.

Four coal beds are of major importance from the standpoint of production
and probable future development. These beds are the Upper Elkhorn No. 3,
Upper Elkhorn No. 2, Upper Elkhorn No. 1, and the Lower Elkhorn. Beds of
secondary importance at present are the Winifrede, Williamson, and Bingham.
Little mining has been done in the other ten beds; they are of minor impor-
tance at present. Beds above the Winifrede are so high topographically that
they are seldom prospected. Erosion has left only comparatively small isolated
areas of these coals. Because so many of the lower coal beds are above drain-
age and accessible by drift, they have not been core-drilled extensively to
determine the full extent of the beds. Therefore, the estimates of reserves
have been based primarily on outcrop sections and sections of the beds in
mined areas.

a Hunt, Charles B., Work cited in footnote 6.
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Figure |. - Key map of Pike County, Ky.


Material Inches Material Inches

COAL ...6-
Parting
COAL ...-ee- . seeee

Thickness ......eeeeeees

COAL wececeeeeesseceeceeceees Ol

Parting .. ~ 4
COAL ...... » 23
Thickness .. a3)

Millard Bed
(See fig. 11 and table 13)

The Millard bed (also known as the Glamorgan and Cedar) overlies a sand-
stone 40 to 80 feet thick, The coal is thin in virtually all of the area of
reserves but locally attains a thickness of about 3 feet. Known reserves are
mapped along the Virginia line in the eastern and southeastern parts of the
county. Sections of the Millard bed in areas of recoverable reserves follow:

Southeastern Part of County

Material Inches Material Inches
COAL .. 2 6-1/2
Parting 6 3/4
COAL ... 20 13-3/4
Thickness .. 28 1/4
11-3/4
COAL ....- 12 Thickness ............ 32-1/2
Parting .. 1
COAL ......00- . 18 (oo) \ na 20-1/2
Thickness .. 31 Parting .
COAL ... .
COAL .. 6-3/4 Parting .. .
Parting 1/4 (o(0)\
COAL ..... 23 Thickness ....

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Figure 12. - Auxier bed, Pike County, Ky-, dan. 1, 1948.


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Figure 13. - Elswick bed, Pike County, Ky., Jan. I, 1948.


Where no data are available other than measurements along the outcrop,
but where the continuity of the outcrop is measured in miles and suggests
the presence of coal at great distances in from the outcrop, a smooth line
drawn roughly 1/2 mile in from the outcrop is used to mark the limit under
cover of a block of coal that can also be classed as measured.

Indicated coal. - Indicated coal is coal for which tonnage is computed
partly from specific measurements and partly from projection of visible data
for a reasonable distance on geologic evidence, In general, the points of
observation are of the order of 1 mile apart, but may be as much as 1-1/2
miles for beds of known geologic continuity. For example, if drilling on
1/2-mile centers has proved a block of measured coal of fairly uniform thick-
ness and extent, the area of measured coal, according to the judgment of the
estimator, is larger than the actual area of drilling by as much as 1/4 mile
on all sides. If, from geologic evidence, the bed is believed to have greater
continuity, the area of measured coal is surrounded by a belt of indicated
coal, which, according to the judgment of the appraiser, may be as much as
1-1/2 miles wide.

Where no data are available other than measurements along the outcrops,
but where the continuity of the outcrop is measured in miles and suggests the
presence of coal at great distances in from the outcrop, two lines drawn
roughly parallel to the outcrop, one 1/2 mile in from the outcrop and one
2 miles in from the outcrop, define a block of coal that may be classed as
indicated.

Inferred coal. - As no estimate of reserves has been made from geologic
inference alone, inferred coal is not included in this report, This category
normally would contain the largest reserves,

Areas excluded from estimate. - In each bed there are areas where coal
may be present but for which no estimates of reserves have been made. There
are too few or no bed sections from drill holes, mine workings, or coal out-
crops in the area on which to base estimates that would qualify under the
definitions of "measured" or "indicated" reserves. These areas may contain
additional geologically inferred reserves.

Overburden. - All known reserves in Pike County are under less than 2,000
feet of overburden.

Thickness of coal. - In computing the volume of reserves in each thick-
ness category for each bed, the total thickness of clean coal in the bed sec-
tion is used. If the top or bottom bench of coal described under definition
of "bed thickness range" usually is not mined, the thickness of the bench is
not used to compute the volume of reserves, A weighted average thickness in
each thickness category for each 5-minute rectangle of each bed is computed.

Weight of coal. - Estimated coal in place is based on 1,800 short tons
per acre-foot.

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