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49. Visitors Pose with Hanna Coal Company's Mountaineer Shovel

IDNO:
003302
Title:
Visitors Pose with Hanna Coal Company's Mountaineer Shovel
View of Highwall: Many feet of overburden are removed by the large electric shovels to expose the coal seam. After completion of mining operations, the land is graded. It is then planted in forage crops, and beef cattle graze on it. Many trees have also been planted on lands affected by open-cut mining operations. At approximately the vertical center of the picture is a stratum of limestone which is quarried for use as road aggregate, track ballast and agricultural meal. Hanna Coal Company, Division of Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company

50. Results of Open Cut Mining

IDNO:
004353
Title:
Results of Open Cut Mining
Date:
undated
Description:
View of Highwall: Many feet of overburden are removed by the large electric shovels to expose the coal seam. After completion of mining operations, the land is graded. It is then planted in forage crops, and beef cattle graze on it. Many trees have also been planted on lands affected by open-cut mining operations. At approximately the vertical center of the picture is a stratum of limestone which is quarried for use as road aggregate, track ballast and agricultural meal. Hanna Coal Company, Division of Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company
'Hanna Coal Company, Division of Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company has planted many millions of trees on lands which have been affected by open-cut mining. It is evident from the photograph that the trees thrive very well on this land. These newly created forests provide sanctuary for wild life, and in recent years there has been a moticeable increase in the amount of wild life present in these new forest areas. The trees in this photograph had been planted for some seven years at the time the photograph was taken. When these trees reach maturity they will have many uses, including that of supplying roof support material for Hanna's underground mines.'

51. Trees Planted on Areas Affected by Open-Cut Mining

IDNO:
004355
Title:
Trees Planted on Areas Affected by Open-Cut Mining
Description:
'Hanna Coal Company, Division of Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company has planted many millions of trees on lands which have been affected by open-cut mining. It is evident from the photograph that the trees thrive very well on this land. These newly created forests provide sanctuary for wild life, and in recent years there has been a moticeable increase in the amount of wild life present in these new forest areas. The trees in this photograph had been planted for some seven years at the time the photograph was taken. When these trees reach maturity they will have many uses, including that of supplying roof support material for Hanna's underground mines.'
'The nature of Hanna Coal's surface mining operations is illustrated here. Among the company's seven strip shovels for removing the overburden and uncovering the 52-inch vein of coal, are four giants weighing in the neighborhood of 1,800 tons each, equipped with booms up to 120 feet long, and with scoops having a capacity up to 50 cubic yards. Each of these large shovels can move enough stone and earth per year to cover a football field more than a mile high.'

52. Hanna Coal Company Shovels at Work

IDNO:
004357
Title:
Hanna Coal Company Shovels at Work
Description:
'The nature of Hanna Coal's surface mining operations is illustrated here. Among the company's seven strip shovels for removing the overburden and uncovering the 52-inch vein of coal, are four giants weighing in the neighborhood of 1,800 tons each, equipped with booms up to 120 feet long, and with scoops having a capacity up to 50 cubic yards. Each of these large shovels can move enough stone and earth per year to cover a football field more than a mile high.'
'The nature of Hanna Coal's surface mining operations is illustrated here. Among the company's seven strip shovels for removing the overburden and uncovering the 52-inch vein of coal, are four giants weighing in the neighborhood of 1,800 tons each, equipped with booms up to 120 feet long, and with scoops having a capacity up to 50 cubic yards. Each of these large shovels can move enough stone and earth per year to cover a football field more than a mile high.'

53. Hanna Coal Company Shovels at Work

IDNO:
004358
Title:
Hanna Coal Company Shovels at Work
Description:
'The nature of Hanna Coal's surface mining operations is illustrated here. Among the company's seven strip shovels for removing the overburden and uncovering the 52-inch vein of coal, are four giants weighing in the neighborhood of 1,800 tons each, equipped with booms up to 120 feet long, and with scoops having a capacity up to 50 cubic yards. Each of these large shovels can move enough stone and earth per year to cover a football field more than a mile high.'

54. Results of Open Cut Mining

IDNO:
004359
Title:
Results of Open Cut Mining
Hanna Coal Co. Shovels: 'looks like 'The Mountaineer' on the right and probably 'The Tiger' on 'The Green Hornet' on the left.'

55. Hanna Coal Company Shovels at Work

IDNO:
004362
Title:
Hanna Coal Company Shovels at Work
Description:
Hanna Coal Co. Shovels: 'looks like 'The Mountaineer' on the right and probably 'The Tiger' on 'The Green Hornet' on the left.'
Shovel strip mining a hillside.

56. Shovel at Work on a Surface Mine

IDNO:
004363
Title:
Shovel at Work on a Surface Mine
Description:
Shovel strip mining a hillside.
Two cranes surface mining a gorge. Dump trucks taking away hillside ruble.

57. Strip Mining Operation, Georgetown No.12 Mine

IDNO:
004364
Title:
Strip Mining Operation, Georgetown No.12 Mine
Date:
undated
Description:
Two cranes surface mining a gorge. Dump trucks taking away hillside ruble.

58. Mountaineer, the World's Largest Shovel

IDNO:
004365
Title:
Mountaineer, the World's Largest Shovel
Visitors and workers standing inside of a coal shovel, possibly The Tiger.

59. Visitors and Workers Posing in a Coal Shovel

IDNO:
004370
Title:
Visitors and Workers Posing in a Coal Shovel
Description:
Visitors and workers standing inside of a coal shovel, possibly The Tiger.
'Close-up view of dipper on 50 cubic-yard shovel at Georgetown No. 12 Mine of Hanna Coal Company, Division of Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company. These electric shovels are used to remove the earth and rock overburden from the coal seam. In a month's time, they will each remove as much as 1,600.000 cubic yards, or some 2,400.000 tons. If this material were to be loaded into open railroad cars, it would fill some 48,000 of them.'

60. Truck Parked in a 50 Cubic Yard Shovel at Georgetown No. 12 Mine

IDNO:
004371
Title:
Truck Parked in a 50 Cubic Yard Shovel at Georgetown No. 12 Mine
Description:
'Close-up view of dipper on 50 cubic-yard shovel at Georgetown No. 12 Mine of Hanna Coal Company, Division of Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company. These electric shovels are used to remove the earth and rock overburden from the coal seam. In a month's time, they will each remove as much as 1,600.000 cubic yards, or some 2,400.000 tons. If this material were to be loaded into open railroad cars, it would fill some 48,000 of them.'