Longwall Face Showing Armored Conveyor, Planer, and Roof Supports
Description:
Modified Longwall Mining with a German Coal Planer. Progress Report 2: Completion of mining in three adjacent panels in the Pocahontas No. 4 coal bed, Helen, W. Va; Please give credit to Bureau of Mines, United States, Department of Interior.
'Loading [sic] from heading to face conveying on 9% grade to boom, coal wet; distance to face 174 feet; flight type boom; Note: up until the time of taking pictures A-1-A-2-3&4 no jacks were set to support conveyor or drive.'
'It is any wonder White Oak is said to be the best prepared domestic coal marketed from W. VA., when you look at this picture of White egg coal taken as it is being loaded inot a a railroad car? Perfectly sized; perfectly screened and quality unsurpassed. No wonder it is the most popular sized coal sold in the domestic market.'
'All sizes of 'White' prepared coal is loaded into railroad cars with loading booms to minimize breakage and preserve the best appearance of the coal. It would be useless to carefully mine and screen our coal if we did not use proper care in loading it into the railroad cars. These booms lower to the bottom of the car when it is first placed under the tipple for loading, and raised from time to time as the car fills up. Note how perfectly screened this lump coal appears on the boom! Not a sign of slack to be seen. Treated for dust if desired.'
Raw Coal Conveyor Belt at Georgetown Preparation Plant
Description:
'This enclosed raw coal conveyor belt starts the coal on its journey through the Georgetown Preparation Belt. The belt is 641 feet long and moves at a speed of just above 10 miles per hour. The coal is taken to the top of the plant, where it is given a preliminary sorting by size and then sent through one of the three cleaning circuits incorporated in the preparation system.'
'All sizes of 'White Oak' prepared coal are loaded into railroad cars with loading booms to minimize breakage and preserve the best appearance of the coal. It would be useless to carefully mine and screen our coal if we did not use proper care in loading it into the railroad cars. These booms lower to the bottom of the car when it is first placed under the tipple for loading, and raised from time to time as the car fills up. Note how perfectly screened this lump coal appears on the boom! Not a sign of slack to be seen. Treated for dust if desired.'
'A sheltered conveyor brings the Disco product from the carbonizers to this sheltered mechanical cooling wharf. A method of careful cooling in motion prevents spontaneous firing of the fuel and avoids injury to the structure of the product. The wharf is contructed of a series of grates, which are successively raised and lowered in a wavelike manner to keep the Disco product in motion and convey it slowly, while it is being cooled, down to the discharge end of the wharf.
'Same story as shown in views of our lump and egg. Stove coal is evenly sized and perfectly prepared. Loaded with booms just the same as other sizes. To be doubly sure no impurities get into the railroad car, we wash this size at two White Oak mines. Treated for dust if desired.'
Coke Loading Conveyor and Hopper, Morgantown Ordnance Works, Morgantown, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1945
Description:
Building 98, Looking Southeast. From Volume One of Morgantown Ordnance Plant Pictures at Morgantown, W. Va. Constructed and Operated by the Ammonia Department, E. I. Dupont De Nemours and Company.
Coke Wharf and Loading Conveyor, Morgantown Ordnance Works, Morgantown, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1945
Description:
Buildings 98 and 99, View looking South. From Volume One of Morgantown Ordnance Plant Pictures at Morgantown, W. Va. Constructed and Operated by the Ammonia Department, E. I. Dupont De Nemours and Company.'
Conveyor Belt at Truax Traer Coal Company, Elkville IL
Description:
This is written on the back of the photo: 'Junction point two (2) 30"x1200' Conveyors Truax Traer Company, Elkville now used in Cabin Creek mines in West Virginia'
!['Loading [sic] from heading to face conveying on 9% grade to boom, coal wet; distance to face 174 feet; flight type boom; Note: up until the time of taking pictures A-1-A-2-3&4 no jacks were set to support conveyor or drive.'](/thumb/002762.jpg "Coal on Conveyor at Thomas, W. Va.")
![Headhouse and conveyor on hillside burning after an attack on Cliftonville. 'Picture used on pg. 195 of [Lee's] book.'](/thumb/004249.jpg "Headhouse and Conveyor Burning after Attack on Cliftonville, W. Va.")
![Headhouse and conveyor on hillside burning after an attack on Cliftonville. 'Picture used on pg. 195 of [Lee's] book.'](/thumb/004262.jpg "Headhouse and Conveyor Burning after Attack on Cliftonville, W. Va.")
