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Lehigh Anthracite’s Coal Products Ship All Over the Worldland, the Greenwood Breaker, mining equip-ment and a handful of employees. Toll andTopkis had no experience in the miningindustry, so they turned to Robindale Energy& Associated Companies and LehighAnthracite was born. In 2011, the miningpermit was transferred and mining, cleanupand reclamation have been in full swing eversince.

Richard “Rusty” Taylor is the CEO ofLehigh Anthracite Coal LLC. Taylor is theformer vice president of Environmental andRegulatory Matters at Robindale Energy &Associated Companies. He is a graduate ofPenn State University with a degree inForestry. After graduating from Penn State inthe 1970s, Taylor submitted his applicationto the U.S. Forestry Service but did not getthe job. Taylor then turned to a local coalmine and was hired as a off-road dump truckoperator. He has been involved in the coalindustry ever since his days as the haul truckdriver.

Why Anthracite?Anthracite coal is the cleanest burning

coal. The reason for this is the extremelyhigh carbon content compared to other coal.The coal coming out of Lehigh AnthraciteCoal’s mines are between 84 percent and 88percent carbon content with very low ashand volatility content. These factors makeanthracite coal ideal for uses in many differ-ent applications. Lehigh’s coal is used insteel making, carbon injections, charge car-bons, water filtration, power generation,heating and cooking ovens.

Lehigh Anthracite processes all its coal onthe property. Once the overburden isremoved and dumped back into an alreadymined portion of the site, the raw coal isexcavated and placed into haul trucks. On

the Little Italy site, the extracted coal isdumped in a collection area by the haultrucks. Because the site is inaccessible byhaul truck, the coal is then placed into on-road dump trucks and taken to the process-ing plant. On the Job 88 site, the coal is takento the processing plant by the haul trucks.

All raw coal is placed into a crusher whereit is crushed to a uniform size before enteringthe plant. Lehigh does its best to separate anypieces of wood (from previous undergroundmines) and other contaminants from the rawcoal. Approximately 50 percent of raw coalis actually useable after being processed.

This coal makes its way into rail cars, onroad trucks and bags. Lehigh Anthracite’scoal is shipped worldwide to many cus-tomers. Lehigh Anthracite offers a widerange of products for nearly any possibleneed and its coal is highly sought after bynational and international companies. CEG

The Mining ProcessLehigh Anthracite Coal uses trucks, shovels, excava-

tors and draglines to extract the coal from the earth.Lehigh maintains a fleet of haul trucks from Euclid,Hitachi, Komatsu and Caterpillar. Models include:

• Hitachi 1700-3s,• Caterpillar 777Fs, • Caterpillar 775s, • Caterpillar 773s, and a • Komatsu HD465. The shovel and excavator fleet consists of:• two Caterpillar 6015Bs, • Caterpillar 6030FS, • a few Caterpillar 390Ds, • Terex-O&K RH120E, • Komatsu PC1250, • Komatsu PC800, and a • Komatsu PC600.

A Caterpillar 6015B loadsa Caterpillar 773F with

overburden.

A Manitowoc dragline cleans up overburden. A Komatsu PC1250 removes overburden.

A Komatsu WA450 loads a McCloskey screener with 4mm to ¼-in. coal.

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A Hitachi EH1700-3 approaches the loading site.