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49. 35 Yard Stripping Shovel at Hanna Coal Company Surface Mine

Group Portrait of Men Standing Below the Tiger Coal Shovel

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

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

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

52. Inspection Party Special Train Near Somerset, Pennsylvania

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

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

Two men working with a rubber tire mounted cutting machine.

55. Miners Operating a Cutting Machine

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

56. Preparation Plant

Coal cars line up at Consolidation Coal Co. (W. Va.), mine no. 25 tipple.

57. Coal Tipple, Consolidation Coal Company Mine No. 25, W. Va.

58. Consolidation Coal Company Mine No. 32, Fairmont, W. Va.

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

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

Coal cars run down the track in a preparation plant yard.

60. Coal Preparation Plant Yard

A coal filling station stands over the tracks at Mine 86.

61. Consolidation Coal Company Mine No. 86 at Carolina, W. Va.

A tipple mine processing plants sits on the edge of a mountain.

62. Tipple at Middleton Mine, Middleton, Marion Co. W. Va.

Coal cars line up in the yard at mine 32.

63. Mine No. 32, Owings, W. Va.

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

64. Itmann Preparation Plant, Pocahontas Fuel Company

This crane is ripping the mountainside away for coal.

65. Massive Coal Shovel at Work

66. Coal Shovel and other Surface Mining Equipment at Work

67. Miner Operates a Coal Cutting Machine Prior to Blasting

68. Miners Operating a Cutting Machine

Two miners cut coal at Pursglove No. 15

69. Miners Operating a Cutting Machine in Pursglove No. 15 Mine

Coal conveyor systems run throughout the hillside.

70. Raw Coal Conveyor System

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.'

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

A man stands beside large piles of coal.

72. Various Grades of Coal Awaiting Transport