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Visitors getting back onto the buses at the Georgetown Preparation Plant.

13. Georgetown Preparation Plant

14. Visitors Outside a Hanna Coal Company Preparation Plant

Unit 25-3B.

15. Recirculating Pump for Water in Tipple

16. Jig with Double Middling and Interior Refuse Conveyor

17. Thermal Dryer Dust Collector

18. Loading Ramp to Cement Floor

19. Loading Coal at a Coal Preparation Plant

'On the top level of the heat drier building showing, from left to right, the motors, blowers and tops of the cyclones. The vertical tubes are exhaust stacks for the waste heating gases and moisture. The driers themselves are long, vertical tubes, located beneath this deck. A blast of hot gasses dries the coal and the cyclones then separate the coal from the waste gasses and moisture. Purpose of the drying operation is to reduce the moisture acquired in coal washing, 'or from the atmosphere during storage on the stock pile', and provide the processing plant with a uniform charge material.

20. Heat Drier Building

Coal traveling on a conveyor.

21. Conveyor Belt at Jamison No. 9

Miner examines coal traveling down a conveyor inside the Hutchinson Preparation Plant, Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company.

22. Interior of the Hutchinson Preparation Plant

The incline is 4360 feet long and has a vertical rise of 1335 feet. Six cars each carrying 4 tons each would be loaded each trip.

23. Incline at Clover Splint Mine

Conveyor belt in the middle of the mountains.

24. Raw Coal Conveyor System