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A continuous mining machine operating in a four foot seam.

1. Continuous Mining Machine in Operation in a Four Foot Seam

Two men with equipment putting up bolts to support the mine roof.

2. Miner Roof Bolting

After open-cut mining has been completed in a given area, the land affected is graded and planted in forage crops. Seeding done to date has consisted of a mixture of legumes and grasses with alfalfa predominateing, but also included were sweet clover, birdsfoot trefoil, brome grass and orchard grass. Other mixtures which have been used include alfalfa and brome grass, and birdsfoot trefoil with blue grass. A few years after seeding, these fields will supposrt a good stand of forage crops. White faced Hereford cattle are then turned out for grazing. Experience has shown that the cattle often gain wieght faster in these fields than in adjoining fields unaffected by open cut mining. It is also interesting to note that when the cattle are given their choice of a grazing spot, they invariably choose the restored fields.  The open-cut mining operations contribute greatly to the enrichment of this soil. This is because in the process of open-cut mining a vein of water-soluble limestone is broken up and mixed in with the soil. This photograph shows white faced Herefords grazing in a field which has been affected by open-cut mining and later graded and planted. Hanna Coal Company, Division of Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company.

3. Cattle Grazing on Reclaimed Fields Which Have Been Affected by Open-Cut Mining

4. Iron Ore on a Conveyor Going Into the Smelter at Wheeling, W. Va.

A large scoop with two cars fitting between its jaws.

5. Two Cars Fit into the Scoop of the 'Mountaineer'

A large scoop with two cars fitting between its jaws.

6. Two Cars Fit into the Scoop of the 'Mountaineer'

7. Towboats and Coal Barges on an Appalachian River

8. Ireland Mine Portal Area Supply Yard

Continuous miner in action.

9. Lee Norse CM28E Continuous Miner

10. Coal in Rail Road Car

11. Chesapeake and Ohio Coal Car Loaded with Coal

People standing next to the massive Mountaineer shovel.

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

13. Visitor Standing In The Scoop of the Mountaineer Coal Shovel

Miners carrying an injured person on a stretcher while a man films. W.J. Wolf and Frank Brooks the Supt. of Mine 86 are included in the picture.

14. Accident Training at Consolidation Coal Mine No. 86

15. Large Blocks of Coal

Champion coal

16. Champion Coal Workers Use the Self Unloading-Power Chute, Univeyor Truck Delivery System, Stoker Coal

This picture shows the thickness of the coal seam in relation to a normal doorway.

17. Thickness of Coal Seam at Long Branch No. 1

An unidentified coal loading station.

18. Coal Loading Station

Coal dropping from a chute into a bin to be processed.

19. Coal Being Processed

Coal in cars inside of a plant being processed.

20. Coal Being Processed

Two men using large bits to drill prior to placing charges.

21. Drilling Prior to Placing Charges

Men working in a coal company machine shop.

22. Coal Company Machine Shop

Two miners digging coal in mine.

23. Miners Operating a Cutting Machine

View of the "Point" at Pittsburgh.

24. Aerial View of Industrial Pittsburgh

25. Coal Seams in Layers of Rock

26. Coal Loading Machine

Unidentified coal loading platform alongside railroad tracks.

27. Coal Loading Platform

28. Visitors Watching the Mountaineer Coal Shovel at Work

Men standing next to a shoveling machine at a Hanna Strip-Mine.

29. Tour of Hanna Coal Company Mine Site, Cadiz, Ohio

30. Tour of Hanna Coal Company Mine Site, Cadiz, Ohio

Two men at work in a quality control lab.

31. Coal Quality Control Laboratory

Two men placing charges in an already drilled hole. Notice the preparatory cut on upper right hand side.

32. Miners Placing Charges

33. Chesapeake and Ohio Coal Cars Loaded with Miller's Creek Block

Miners gathered in a typical Consol locker room with a modern bath house adjacent to it.

34. Typical Consol Locker Room

35. Coal on Conveyor

36. Miner Operating a Coal Loading Machine

Photo shows W.A. Boggess, head clerk, hands Joe his two weeks pay envelope.

37. Miner's Pay Day

Two miners take samples of coal.

38. Miners Taking Samples of Coal

39. Miner Roof Bolting

40. Making a Cut in Coal Face Prior to 'Shooting Down' Coal

Caption on back reads, 'Stiff-arming a highwall is the job of this new, double-decker drill in operation at the Georgetown mine, Hanna Coal Co., at Georgetown, Ohio. Fruit of the ingenuity of coal mining engineers, the drill makes two blast holes at different levels in the highwall, permitting a blasting shot that brings down a large section of 'overburden.' The 'overburden,' rock, shale, limestone, clay and other mineral deposits, lies above the coal seam. Surface, or open-pit mining, accounts for 23 percent of total bituminous production. The Georgetown mine is the largest surface mine in the world.'

41. Double Decker Drill in Operation at Georgetown Mine, Georgetown, Ohio, Hanna Coal Company

42. Miner Marking a Coal Seam

43. 35 Yard Stripping Shovel at Hanna Coal Company Surface Mine

Group Portrait of Men Standing Below the Tiger Coal Shovel

44. Visitors Pose with Hanna Coal Company's Tiger Shovel

45. Tour of Hanna Coal Company Mine Site, Cadiz, Ohio

Locomotive No. 5016, inspection party special train near Somerset, Pa.

46. Inspection Party Special Train Near Somerset, Pennsylvania

47. Miners Operating a Loading Machine in Jamison No. 9 Mine

Two men working with a rubber tire mounted cutting machine.

48. Miners Operating a Cutting Machine