Triple 7 Commodities the parent company is in talks with Mineral Separation Technologies about using the dry based separation to wash coal as well. This patented technology is a waterless system that helps drive down preparation costs, and logistics cost. The major conservation of water and other resources should benefit potential users impactfully. We are attracted to the reasonable price of the equipment as well as the control that it provides us to our supply chain. Many times the clean ton versus raw ton argument can change with the slight of a pen. Controlling how much coal is cleaned and documented is very much an issue depending on where the coal prep is being performed. Both technologies help level the playing field of not owning a preparation plant facility in house.
