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<strong><font color="#ff6600">     Hello, name's Richard B. I live in the heart of coal country'Boone County West Virginia', I can tell you everything you need to know about coal mining. I myself am an experienced deep miner. Your small loadout is just a start, and a pretty nostalgic one"I like it". For the full effect, you would want to incorporate a raw coal in-flow, say from a deep mine, a coal truck dump, or a overland belt nowdays, from a local strip or auger mine. Raw coal is before the coal has been cleaned and processed for market sale. The tipple serves as a cleaning facility, some tipples have an internal train loadout, but nowdays most have a remote loadout, or stand alone. You would need at least 2 sediment holding tanks, or ponds, as you can't dump the coal waste straight into fresh water. You would want a dirty coal stock pile with a belt line running into the tipple. As the coal was cleaned, sized and refined, you would want to send it back outside to a clean coal pile. From the clean coal pile the coal would be pushed by dozer into underground feeders and routed by belt line to your stand alone loadout, or back into the loadout portion of your tipple.</font></strong>
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