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A few men stand outside of processing plant no. 32 at Fairmont W. Va.

1. Consol No. 32, New Tipple & Cleaning Plant, Fairmont W. Va.

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

2. Miners Placing Charges

Two men operating a loading machine.

3. Loading Machine in Action at Mine No. 32

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

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

Miners leaving roofed man trip car at shifts end.

5. Miners Leaving Roofed Man-Trip Car At Shift's End, Consolidation Coal Company, Mine No. 32

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.'

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

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.'

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

Two men running a roof bolter in Jamison No. 9 mine.

8. Miner Roof Bolting at Jamison No. 9 Mine

The very large Itmann preparation plant.  A Consolidation Coal Company mine in 1979.

9. Itmann Preparation Plant, Pocahontas Fuel Company

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

10. Miner Roof Bolting

Two men stand beside rail cars.  A cart a motor sits in  front of them.

11. Miners Stand by Steel Mine Railway Cars

12. Ireland Mine Portal Area Supply Yard