I've still got to laugh
- at how some of the brainless twits on this message board are convinced that this area will eventually be strip mined - and at the basket cases who have suggested open pit mining - GXS would be able to deploy the strip mining method of mining coal in the hilly Pasquia Hills area of their claimed land if they were to discover coal there, far off and up out of the wetland swamps where the discovery holes are currently located as this - Area and Contour mining method - allows for machines to move away landscape and slice large cuts into a hillside to access coal - Giant augers that bore into hillsides and throw out buried coal are also used on rough terrain - the key to mining here is dry enough terrain.
Strip mining is often used to mine surface coal over dry land masses . In this method, hugeearth-moving machines strip away areas of vegetation, and explosivesshatter sedimentary rock
to access underlying coal deposits. - such methods are incondusent to mining coal in this region due to impossible large scale flooding concerns - Strip mining destroys large areas of vegetation and habitat, leavingthem exposed to erosion. - waste products of strip mining create aciddrainage that combines with oxygen in water and air to create sulphuricacid, polluting water and soil and contaminating underlying watertables
.along with a long list of accompanying poisoins thrown off from coal mining.
Water table and Aquifer poisoning concerns are likewise extended to deep shaft mining via breached bedrock conduits that seep into the ground water below and in this region, eventualy finding its way into areas of protected ecological reserves downflow.
The sheer volumes of surficial water in this region create not only insurmountable barriiers incondusent to mining coal, - but along with the uneconomical factor as well with the ecological and environmental issues, there being the proverbial - last nail in the coffin.- the company has yet to consult with the experts on these matters and are currently busy at mining investors pockets - their main function - yes yes YES - ALWAYS - and FIRST AND FOREMOST !