Intra-seam Sedimentological Controls on Coal Quality: 2 Seam, Witbank Coalfield
Sub-seam mapping at an opencast colliery in the Witbank area, setting out a method geologists and resource estimators can apply to other seams.
by Mark Grodner | March 2003
Sub-seams within the No 2 Seam were characterised at a single test site using lithology, seam thickness, proximate analysis, petrography and geophysical logs, and a paleoenvironmental model was built from them. Wireline logs separated coal from interburden but could not resolve the individual zones, because the physical differences are too subtle. Better sedimentological models gave better reserve and resource estimates.
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