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Hanna Coal Company's large electric shovel 'The Mountaineer'.

1. Mountaineer, the World's Largest Shovel

IDNO:
004377
Title:
Mountaineer, the World's Largest Shovel
Description:
Hanna Coal Company's large electric shovel 'The Mountaineer'.
'Close-up view of dipper on 50 cubic-yard shovel at Georgetown No. 12 Mine of Hanna Coal Company, Division of Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company. These electric shovels are used to remove the earth and rock overburden from the coal seam. In a month's time, they will each remove as much as 1,600.000 cubic yards, or some 2,400.000 tons. If this material were to be loaded into open railroad cars, it would fill some 48,000 of them.'

2. Truck Parked in a 50 Cubic Yard Shovel at Georgetown No. 12 Mine

IDNO:
004371
Title:
Truck Parked in a 50 Cubic Yard Shovel at Georgetown No. 12 Mine
Description:
'Close-up view of dipper on 50 cubic-yard shovel at Georgetown No. 12 Mine of Hanna Coal Company, Division of Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company. These electric shovels are used to remove the earth and rock overburden from the coal seam. In a month's time, they will each remove as much as 1,600.000 cubic yards, or some 2,400.000 tons. If this material were to be loaded into open railroad cars, it would fill some 48,000 of them.'
Visitors and workers standing inside of a coal shovel, possibly The Tiger.

3. Visitors and Workers Posing in a Coal Shovel

IDNO:
004370
Title:
Visitors and Workers Posing in a Coal Shovel
Description:
Visitors and workers standing inside of a coal shovel, possibly The Tiger.

4. Mountaineer, the World's Largest Shovel

IDNO:
004365
Title:
Mountaineer, the World's Largest Shovel
Two cranes surface mining a gorge. Dump trucks taking away hillside ruble.

5. Strip Mining Operation, Georgetown No.12 Mine

IDNO:
004364
Title:
Strip Mining Operation, Georgetown No.12 Mine
Date:
undated
Description:
Two cranes surface mining a gorge. Dump trucks taking away hillside ruble.
Shovel strip mining a hillside.

6. Shovel at Work on a Surface Mine

IDNO:
004363
Title:
Shovel at Work on a Surface Mine
Description:
Shovel strip mining a hillside.