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Show ..ILIP&L-Sets ..ILIP&L-Sets - ';;-. .-..-. ,r- f ' : ; " ' ' - v, . . - Mining , Record A new world mining record has been set at Utah Power and Light Company's underground Deer Creek Ming in Emery County, Utah. Emery Mining Cor-v Cor-v ' poration,. operator of the ' company's mine, on August 13 achieved a world -coal production record of 14,699 tons from a single "longwall mining unit" in one day. This surpasses the previous pre-vious record by seven percent, per-cent, or 953 tons which was established at the North Branch Mine of Island Creek Coal Company in Bayard, West Virginia using similar "longwall" equipment. Longwall mining ; method is used at Utah Power arid Light's Deer Creek Mine and the equipment was selected after thorough investigation of machinery . available. Emery Mining Corp. has been operating the equipment equip-ment only since May of 1979. The Deer Creek underground under-ground mine, produces high quality, low-sulphur coal; it t is one of five underground mines owned by Utah Power i and Light in coal rich central Utah. . Ninety-two percent of Utah Power and Light's generation comes from seven coal-fired plants, and with the exception of one plant in Wyoming, substantially all the fuel is produced from these company-owned mines. , The company estimates it will burn almost seven . million tons of coal for : electricity, generation during r 1979. |