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 “The purpose of this bill is to provide a 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 – scale GIS based inventory of coal in West Virginia

Confidentiality “All information provided by or on behalf of a natural resources property owner or by or on behalf of an interest in natural resources property to any state or county representative for use in the valuation or assessment of natural resources property or for use in the development or maintenance of a legislatively funded mineral mapping or geologic information system shall be confidential.” “ Tax Payers’ Bill of Rights”, WV Code 11-1C-14, signed into law 4/1/96

-Pennsylvanian-age, coal-bearing rocks in 49 of 55 counties -About 117 named coal beds, 65 minable -Estimates billion tons of original coal resources >1 ft thick thick -From over 13.6 billion tons mined -About 100,000 abandoned underground mines there were 214 active mines annual production was 143,247,932 tons -From 2002 – 2011 WV produced 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 Cards44200 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