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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

Men digging into the mound.

13. Ireland Mine Cresap Area Excavation of Gatt's Adena Indian Mound

Several men digging on top of a mound.

14. Excavating an Indian Mound on Ireland Coal Company Land

Front Row 'Left to Right'; N.T. Berry, North Western-Hanna, R.C. Larsen,North Western-Hanna, J.J. Larsen, North Western-Hanna. Back Row 'Left to Right'; Robert O'Conner, North Western-Hanna, J.E. Fier, North Western-Hanna, G.M. Allis, North Western-Hanna, M.L. Zhan, North Western-Hanna, Alfred Christopherson, North Western-Hanna, Harry Turner, Superintendent, Loveridge Mine.

15. Employees of the Loveridge Mine

View of the "Point" at Pittsburgh.

16. Aerial View of Industrial Pittsburgh

17. 35 Yard Stripping Shovel at Hanna Coal Company Surface Mine

Men at work with loading machine and shuttle car. Probably Joy Machinery.

18. Miners Operating a Loading Machine

19. Joy Manufacturing Company Continuous Mining Machine

Coal conveyor systems run throughout the hillside.

20. Raw Coal Conveyor System

A miner moves a fully loaded shuttle car down the mine shaft.

21. Loaded Coal Shuttle Car

Two miners digging coal in mine.

22. Miners Operating a Cutting Machine

A processing plant sits below miner's homes and open countryside.

23. Preparation Plant

Two men working with a rubber tire mounted cutting machine.

24. Miners Operating a Cutting Machine

Close-up view of roof drill in action. Man in background is tightening bolt with air powered wrench at Consol. No. 204, Jenkins, Ky.

25. Miners Roof Bolting at Consol No. 204, Jenkins, Ky.

Two men cutting coal in the parting.

26. Cutting Coal with Cavalier

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

Champion coal

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

A coal cutter with nine foot cutting blade at work in Consol. Coal Co. Mine No. 32, Owings, W. Va.

29. Cutting Machine in Operation at Mine No. 32

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

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

Two miners operate a track mounted coal cutting machine.

31. Track Mounted Cutting Machine

Two miners take samples of coal.

32. Miners Taking Samples of Coal

33. Coal Seams in Layers of Rock

34. Towboats and Coal Barges on an Appalachian River

A miner empties his shuttle car.

35. Shuttle Car Discharging Coal

36. Chesapeake and Ohio Coal Car Loaded with Coal

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

37. Typical Consol Locker Room

38. Miner Operates a Coal Cutting Machine Prior to Blasting

A large scoop with two cars fitting between its jaws.

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

Unidentified coal loading platform alongside railroad tracks.

40. Coal Loading Platform

Miner on a small, track mounted, cutting machine.

41. Miner Operating a Small, Track Mounted, Cutting Machine

42. Coal Loading Machine

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.

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

A gear driven cutting machine stands on the track.

44. Very Old Track Mounted Cutting Machine

Men work with core drilling equipment on a hillside.

45. Core Drilling

Five men standing in the Mountaineer Scoop.

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

47. Miner Marking a Coal Seam

A man stands beside large piles of coal.

48. Various Grades of Coal Awaiting Transport