hello my name is Chris wit with Virginia
Department of Mines minerals and energy
and this is your mind safety minute
today we're talking about the plants
necessary to conduct surface mining
operations near gas wells anytime
surface mining operations will be
conducted within 500 feet of a gas well
there's a notification required it's a
simple notification and a map that needs
to come to the Department of Mines
metals and energy both the Mine Safety
Team and the gas and oil team and also
needs to be sent to the well owner and
the surface mining operations will be
conducted within 200 feet of a gas well
or pipeline an approved plan is required
one thing that's often misunderstood
with our surface mine plans is that a
surface mined with a high wall miner may
require two sets of plans one for the
disturbance on the surface and for the
underground mining conducted by the high
wall miner itself these plans are all
available on our web site DMM a georgina
gov or you can also give us a call at
the office