Mountain State Coal – Online

-Enhancements -Changes -Visions

IMCC Benchmarking Workshop on Mine Mapping

Pittsburgh, PA February 15 & 16, 2012

James Britton

Lawsuits filed addressing tax inequities

Pre 1995

WV legislature deals with the issue in 1995

H.B. 2222 -- 1995

“The purpose of this bill is to providea supplementary appropriation to the Geologic and Economic Survey to fund mineral mapping and geographic information systems.”

Coal Bed Mapping Project (CBMP)

State-funded effort to create a

1:24,000 – scaleGIS based inventory

of coalin West Virginia

Confidentiality“All information provided by or on behalf of a natural resources property owner or by or onbehalf of an interest in natural resources property to any state or county representativefor use in the valuation or assessment of naturalresources property or for use in the development or maintenance of a legislatively funded mineralmapping or geologic information system shall beconfidential.”

“ Tax Payers’ Bill of Rights”, WV Code 11-1C-14, signed into law 4/1/96

Randolph

Hardy

Kanawha

Greenbrier

Fayette

Grant

Preston

Raleigh

Pocahontas

Boone

Clay

Nicholas

Roane

Logan

Wayne

Mingo

Pendleton

Lewis

Braxton

Mason

Ritchie

Webster

Wood

Monroe

Lincoln

Tucker

Mercer

Hampshire

Jackson

Wirt

McDowell

Wyoming

Tyler

Wetzel

Gilmer

Harrison

Upshur

Marion

Cabell

Putnam

Mineral

Barbour

Summers

Berkeley

Marshall

Calhoun

Monongalia

Doddridge

Morgan

Taylor

Ohio

JeffersonPleasants

Brooke

Hancock

-Pennsylvanian-age, coal-bearing rocks in 49 of 55 counties-About 117 named coal beds, 65 minable-Estimates 166.6 billion tons of original coal resources >1 ft thick-From 1883-2011 over 13.6 billion tons mined-About 100,000 abandoned underground mines-2011 there were 214 active mines -2011 annual production was 143,247,932 tons-From 2002 – 2011 WV produced 1.504 billion tons of coal

Major Projects

-Coal Mine Map Compilation-Compiling footprints of mines by

seam-About 65 beds and splits

-Coal Bed Mapping Project-Structure Maps-Isopach-Outcrop-Percent Parting

Data Collection

Aperture Cards 44200

Mines in MIDS71362(Mine Information Database System)

900,000 Series Nos.6194

Data Distribution

-Web Site

-MIDS- (Mine Information Database System)

-IMS Portals-Allmng-CBMP

-Scanned Mine Maps-Direct access

CBMP Status June 30, 2011

Data Distribution-Web Site

-MIDS- (Mine Information Database System)

-IMS Portals-Allmng-CBMP

-Scanned Mine Maps-Direct access

Data Distribution-Web Site

-MIDS- (Mine Information Database System)

-IMS Portals-All mining-CBMP

-Scanned Mine Maps-Direct access

Data Distribution-Web Site

-MIDS- (Mine Information Database System)

-IMS Portals-All mining-CBMP

-Scanned Mine Maps-Direct access

Data Distribution-Web Site

-MIDS- (Mine Information Database System)

-IMS Portals-All mining-CBMP

-Scanned Mine Maps-Direct access

Future Plans

-Arc Server based enhanced web maps-(Retire IMS for a more google map-

looking product)-Serve out all non-confidential core data

-More than 10,000 coal company core records