Coal Mining | EME 444: Global Energy Enterprise John A. Dutton e ...
This structure is used to confine refuse or slurry, along with any chemicals used to wash and treat the coal at the coal preparation plant. Coarser waste from the preparation process, rock, is dumped back into the pit once mining has ceased or is used in the construction of an impoundment dam. To Watch Now. Please watch the following (5:43) video: