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Edwin R. Landis

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USGS2009

Coal and peat in the sub-Saharan region of Africa: alternative energy options?

Increased energy demand as a result of growth in population, trends to sedentation and urbanization, and the desire for improvement in living standards, coupled with apparent climatic changes, are reducing fuelwood availability and contributing to deforestation and desertification in the sub‐Saharan countries. In 14 of those countries, the transport, industrial, and electric power generation sectors are all dependent on imported petroleum products for their energy needs with resultant balance of trade and debt‐servicing problems. Coal and peat are essentially unused and in some cases unknown in sub‐Saharan Africa. However, they might comprise valuable alternative energy sources in some or all of the developing nations of the region. The eleven countries considered in this appraisal reportedly contain coal and peat. On the basis of regional geology, another five countries might also contain coal‐bearing rocks. If the resource potential is adequate, coal and peat might be utilized in a variety of ways including substituting for fuelwood, generating electricity, supplying process heat for local industry and increasing agricultural productivity.

Natural Resources Forum↗
USGS2003

The Sohagpur Coalfield Project - A collaborative study of potential coking coal resources by the Geological Survey of India and the U.S. Geological Survey

The Geological Survey of India (GSI), Coal Wing, and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Energy Resources Team, conducted a collaborative study of the potential for coking coal resources within the Sohagpur coalfield, Madhya Pradesh, India from 1995 to 2001. The coalfield is located within an extensional basin that contains Permian- and Triassic-age strata of the Gondwana Supergroup (Figs. 1 and 2). The purposes of the study were to perform a synthesis of previous work and. an integrated analysis of the basin of deposition with particular emphasis on the regional stratigraphy and depositional environments of the coal-bearing strata, the geologic structure of the basin, and the geochemistry of the coal in order to understand the geologic controls on the distribution of coking coals within the basin. The results of this study have been published previously (Mukhopadhyay and others, 2001a, b), and this paper provides a general overview of our findings.

Conference Paper↗
USGS1976

Coal resources of the Alton, Utah, EMRIA site

The estimated original identified coal resources of the Alton, Utah, EMRIA (Energy Minerals Rehabilitation Inventory and Analysis) site--an area of about 3.6 square miles (9.3 square kilometres)--total almost 49 million tons (45 megatonnes). A larger area that surrounds and includes the Alton EMRIA site proper contains estimated original identified coal resources of almost 309 million tons (281 megatonnes). Of these estimated resources in the EMRIA site proper, almost 27 million tons (25 megatonnes) are in beds more than 10 feet thick (3 metres); these beds are overlain by less-than 200 feet (60 metres) of overburden. In the larger area around and including the EMRIA site, about 88.5 million tons (81 megatonnes) are in beds more than ten feet (3 metres) thick with less than 200 feet (60 metres) of overburden. All the estimated resources are in the Smirl zone in the upper part of the Dakota Formation of Cretaceous age. The coal has an apparent rank of subbituminous B, an average heating value of about 9,560 Btu, an average sulfur content of about 1.0 percent, and an average ash content of 7.2 percent. When compared with the average abundance of elements in the crust of the Earth as a whole, only selenium and boron were present in the Alton area coal samples in amounts an order of magnitude greater than the average crustal abundance. Beryllium, fluorine, nickel, zinc, and zirconium are all present in the Alton area samples in amounts that are about an order of magnitude less than the average crustal abundance.

Utah↗
USGS1976

Preliminary report on coal resources of the Otter Creek EMRIA site, Powder River County, Montana

The Knoblock coal bed in the Otter Creek EMRIA (Energy Minerals Rehabilitation Inventory and Analysis) site--an area of about 1,177 acres (476 hectares)--contains estimated identified coal resources of about 126 million short tons (114 million metric tons). The area around and including the Otter Creek EMRIA slte--an area of about 2,975 acres (1,204 hectares)--contalns estimated identified coal resources of about 318 million short tons (289 million metric tons). All estimated coal resources in the Knoblock bed are categorized as measured and indicated resources, and all but about 62 million tons (56 million metric tons) are at depths of less than 200 feet (60 metres). The average thickness of the Knoblock is about 61 feet (18.6 metres) and the overall relationship of quantity of overburden to tons of coal in the area with 200 feet (60 metres) or less of overburden is about 2 cubic yards (1.5 cubic metres) of overburden per ton of coal. The coal is subbituminous C in rank, has an average sulfur content of less than 0.2 percent, and has an average ash content of about 5.5 percent. The major and minor element composition of coal, coal-ash, and rock samples from the area is similar to the average composition of other coals of the Northern Great Plains and to the average rock composition of the Earth's crust. Only the selenium content of the Knoblock coal is more than an order of magnitude higher than that in the continental crust.

Open-File Report↗
USGS1975

Geology and coal resources of the Lakhra coal field, Hyderabad area, Pakistan

The Lakhra coal field is about 20 miles northwest of the ancient city of Hyderabad on the west side of the Indus River Valley in the southern part of Pakistan. The Lailian coal bed in the lower part of the Ranikot Formation under- lies an area of at least 64 sq mi on the Lakhra anticline, averages 3.6 feet thick, but is locally as much as 8.2 feet thick. The estimated reserves in the bed total 239.7 million long tons, of which 21.9 million long tons is classified as measured reserves, 43.8 million long tons as indicated reserves, and 174 million long tons as inferred reserves. The coal is apparently subbituminous C and lignite A in rank. It lies at depths of 83 to 439 feet below the surface of the gently dipping rocks along the crest of the 43-mile-long Lakhra anticline. Though the coal is liable to burn spontaneously, the simplicity of the structure, the shallow depth of the coal bed, and the easy accessibility of the area should warrant large-scale utilization of the coal in the Lakhra field.

Open-File Report↗