Upon completion of the construction, the redesigned plant will be renamed "Zigmond Processing," after retired longtime Massey member Richard Zigmond.
When fully operational, the facility will have processing capacity of 1,200 tons per hour. It will service four underground mines producing high quality metallurgical coal and two surface mines producing steam coal. The mines are all part of the Company's Logan County resource group. The facility will feature a new batch-weigh flood loadout that will be capable of loading 15,000 ton trains in four hours.
Shipments from the direct ship loadout are expected to begin during the first half of August 2010 and the Company expects the plant to be fully operational by mid-September 2010.