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Division of the Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co.

1. Georgetown Preparation Plant

'The Georgetown Prepatation Plant is here viewed from the north, showing the main entrance. Landscaping has begun and the company will build a sizable parking lot in front of the plant with auxiliary lots near the scale house (off the picture to the left) and at the track level in the rear. The enclosed raw coal conveyor and the refuse loading bin are shown at the right. This plant will serve as a central preparation facility for the strip mining and some of the underground mining operations of the Hanna Coal Company, Ohio operating division of Pittsburgh Coal Company. With a capacity of 1,500 tons of raw coal input per hour, Georgetown is the largest coal cleaning plant in the commerical bituminous industry. It has three cleaning circuits and five types of facilities for drying the coal. Integrated with the plant operation are special systems for cleaning and recirculating the water, thereby avoiding stream pollution, and for elimination of air pollution.'

2. Georgetown Preparation Plant

Georgetown Preparation Plant's raw coal conveyor and the refuse loading bin are shown in this picture.

3. Georgetown Preparation Plant

View of the preparation plant from the North East.

4. Georgetown Preparation Plant

Looking down from top of a raw coal conveyor at receiving station.

5. Georgetown Preparation Plant

'The Georgetown Preparation Plant was the worlds largest commercial coal preparation plant, having a capacity of 1,500 tons per hour of raw coal, or 1,275 tons per hour of clean coal. The plant has facilities for dumping bottom-dump tractor-trailer and end-dump trucks, and for rotary and bottom dumping of railroad cars. Coal from these dumps goes into a 1,500 ton bin, from which it is conveyed on a 641 foot belt conveyor to the primary shaker screens. Whereas the conventional coal perparation plant provides only one circuit for all coal washed, the Georgetown plant is unique, in that it provides three separate washing circuites, each of which is designed to most efficiently clean a certain size fraction.'

6. Georgetown Preparation Plant

Front view of the Hanna Coal Co. Georgetown Prep. Plant

7. Georgetown Preparation Plant

View of the plant from across river.

8. Georgetown Preparation Plant

View of the plant from across river.

9. Georgetown Preparation Plant

View of the plant from across river.

10. Georgetown Preparation Plant

View from side of river.

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12. Georgetown Preparation Plant

13. Georgetown Preparation Plant

Dump trucks lined up to dump coal for processing through the plant.

14. Dumping Raw Coal at Georgetown Preparation Plant

View of the entire plant with some cars and a motorcycle parked out front. 'Noted Oct 17, 1952, J.B.F.'

15. Georgetown Preparation Plant

Trains line up to the preparation plant.

16. Williams Preparation Plant, Consolidation Coal Company