Headquartered near Myra, Ky., in Pike County, Premier Elkhorn Coal Co. has both underground and strip mines, providing high quality steam coal for utilities, specialty stoker products for ferro-silicon and industrial uses, PCI coals for steel mills and other metallurgical products.
Facilities at Premier Elkhorn include a state-of-the-art unit train load-out with 200-car siding capable of loading up to 6,000 tons per hour, as well as single-car siding.
Products from Premier Elkhorn are shipped domestically via rail and truck. Internationally, products are shipped from Davant, La.
| Locations: | Pike County, KY | Plant Capacities | 1,100 Tons/Hr Raw Feed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Origin Railroad: | CSXT | Plant Equipment: | Heavy media vessel, cyclones & spirals |
| Freight District: | Big Sandy | Clean Coal Storage: | +250,000 tons |
| Shipping Points: | 84932 Myra &84938 Burke Branch | Refuse | On-site storage |
| Acres Controlled: | + 81,000 | Inbound Sampling: | 2 Ramsey truck augers |
| Recoverable Tons: | +84 million | Plant Sampling: | Ramsey 2-Stage Sweep & Single Stage Sweep |
| Quality System: | ISO-9000 | Plant Control: | PLC |
| Mining Capacity: | 5.0 million tons/year | Load Out Sampling: | Ramsey 3-Stage Sweep |
| Mining Methods: | Underground/Surface | Load Out Control: | Gamma-Metrics 1812-C On-Line Nuclear Analyzer |
| Load Out Capacities: | 200 cars | Lab Testing: | In-house & independent commercial laboratories |
| Load Out Times: | 4 hours | Coal Seams: | Amburgy, Elkhorn #1, Elkhorn #2, Glamorgan, Lower Elkhorn, Whitesburg, Elkhorn #3 and Hazard #4 |
