Available Coal Resources of the Booneville 7.5–Minute Quadrangle, Owsley County, Kentucky

Authors

Gerald A. Weisenfluh, University of KentuckyFollow
R. E. Andrews, University of Kentucky
John K. Hiett, University of KentuckyFollow
Stephen F. Greb, University of KentuckyFollow
Richard E. Sergeant, University of KentuckyFollow
Donald R. Chesnut Jr., University of KentuckyFollow

Abstract

The Booneville Quadrangle lies within the Southwestern Reserve District of the Eastern Kentucky Coal Field. Six coal beds in the quadrangle have been commercially developed, mainly by surface mining methods, and comprise the basis of this Coal Availability Study. These beds are, in descending stratigraphic order, Copland, Whitesburg, Amburgy, Upper Elkhorn No. 3, Jellico and Manchester. A computerized Geographic Information System (GRASS) was used to calculate estimates of original, mined-out and remaining resources, restrictions to mining and available resources.

Publication Date

1992

Series

Series XI

Report Number

Information Circular 42

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.13023/kgs.ic42.11

Repository Citation

Weisenfluh, Gerald A.; Andrews, R. E.; Hiett, John K.; Greb, Stephen F.; Sergeant, Richard E.; and Chesnut, Donald R. Jr., "Available Coal Resources of the Booneville 7.5–Minute Quadrangle, Owsley County, Kentucky" (1992). Information Circular--KGS. 49.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/kgs_ic/49