left exposed 20 foot seam of coking coal al utah's biackwater deposit queensland australia in compliance with utah's conditional sales contract with japanese steel interests a 2,000 ton sample was removed from this pit for testing in japan right construction on expanded mill facilities pima mining company arizona to renew for an additional 15 years it has been announced that construction will start in the spring of 1966 on a new plant to be owned by six of the members of west associates it is to have a capacity of 1,510,000 kilowatts and fuel requirements of 6 million tons per year if fuel agreement negotia tions presently in progress are successfully concluded and the plant is fully operational by august 1969 utah's coal production at the navajo mine will have increased to an annual rate of 8 million tons making navajo the largest coal mine in the united states the aggregate 2,085,000 kilowatts of electrical energy then being generated at this location would be equivalent to the energy require ments of a city the size of philadelphia the company's optimism for even further expansion of the out put of the navajo mine was demonstrated this year by the signing of an amendment increasing the reserves of the four corners deposit to over 750,000,000 tons of strippable coal — adequate for providing energy for 35 years for total generating capacity of svz million kilowatts this would be the equivalent of the electrical en ergy presently consumed in the greater chicago area and would re quire annual coal production of about 22 million tons with such capacity for future expansion utah's navajo mine represents one of the largest low cost energy sources in the world the company's western coal reserves total well over one billion tons near the town of craig in northwest colorado the com pany controls a sizable reserve of coal suitable for electric power generation and also has a large water right and storage permit in the nearby yampa river also controlled are strippable steam coal de posits in southern utah near the town of kanab these reserves are well situated to serve the southern california energy market but lack surface water in the immediate vicinity investigations are presently underway for the development of a sub-surface water supply or a means of transporting the coal to water in addition to its proven deposits utah is actively investigating other reserves of strippable and underground coal in future years as additional power is re quired in the western states it is hoped that the company's position u