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This crane is ripping the mountainside away for coal.

181. Massive Coal Shovel at Work

182. Coal Shovel and other Surface Mining Equipment at Work

183. Miner Operates a Coal Cutting Machine Prior to Blasting

184. Miners Operating a Cutting Machine

Two miners cut coal at Pursglove No. 15

185. Miners Operating a Cutting Machine in Pursglove No. 15 Mine

Coal conveyor systems run throughout the hillside.

186. Raw Coal Conveyor System

Caption on back reads, 'Making a cut in the coal face is this Mastodon of the machine age - an underground cutter.  Rubber tired for mobility, and mounting a 9-foot cutting blade armed with whirring steel bits, it can cut a full 360 degree arc.  This and similar machines give America's bituminous coal mines almost unlimited capacity for production.'

187. Miners Operating a Cutting Machine at Mine No. 32, Consolidation Coal Company, Owings, W. Va.

A man stands beside large piles of coal.

188. Various Grades of Coal Awaiting Transport

A miner operates an electric shuttle car in the mine.

189. Miner Operating an Electric Shuttle Car

Group portrait of men standing in the bucket of a large shovel.

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

A pile of coal in a coal car.

191. Peacock Splint, Pittsburgh Coal

192. Coal Cargo Ship at Sea, Hampton Roads