Coal Miner RecordsCoal Miner Records

Coal Miner Records

Coal Miner Records. The Pennsylvania State Archives hold numerous collections which pertain to persons either employed in or in some way associated with the anthracite (hard coal) and bituminous (soft coal) mining industries of the Commonwealth. The anthracite fields stretch for nearly 500 square miles across portions of northeastern ...

Anthracite mining began in the early 1800s, later than bituminous mining, but like bituminous extraction, anthracite mining grew enormously from the midnineteenth to the early twentieth century. Beginning in the 1920s, it, too, suffered a drastic decline due to shrinking markets.
Coal Mining in IowaCoal Mining in Iowa

Coal Mining in Iowa

Iowa coal mining grew rapidly from 1870 to 1920. The graph, "Coal Production in Iowa, 1860 1938, " shows the decline of coal production after 1920. Mining declined for several reasons. The railroads began buying coal from other states such as Illinois and Kentucky. As a result, the mining industry in Iowa was thrown into competition with the ...
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Coal Mining

Coal Mining: Coal mining is a dangerous job that will continue to be dangerous no matter how much safety equipment you have. Boy's would start being coal miners at the age of twelve, but only if they lasted the job of picking unwanted things out of the coal coming in. This job of picking things out of the coal coming in would give the boys a ...
History of coal miningHistory of coal mining

History of coal mining

The history of coal mining goes back thousands of years, with early mines documented in ancient China, the Roman Empire and other early historical economies. It became important in the Industrial Revolution of the 19th and 20th centuries, when it was primarily used to power steam engines, heat buildings and generate electricity. Coal mining continues as an important economic activity today ...
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Coal Miners

Coal Miners. Page Content. Between 1880 and 1920, southern West Virginia's population grew from 93,000 to 446,000, due almost entirely to the coal industry. The region's first coal miners primarily were African Americans, both enslaved and free. By 1850, approximately half of Kanawha County's slaves worked in the salt industry—many ...
Pennsylvania Annual Report of Mines by Year: ...Pennsylvania Annual Report of Mines by Year: ...

Pennsylvania Annual Report of Mines by Year: ...

Published since the 1870s this report contains production statistics, mine names, loions, owner information, and accident statistics. Prior to the mid1880s the reports for anthracite and bituminous coal were produced by separate agencies; therefore early reports for bituminous coal are available as part III "Industrial Statistics" of the Annual Report of the Bureau of Statistics of ...
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Nuttallburg

After visiting Nuttallburg in early 1921, Ford opted to mothball the No. 2 mine (Nuttallburg Mine) over a lack of profitability between October 1921 and November 1922. 3. A new tipple was built in 192324 by the Roberts Schaefer Company of Chicago, and a new conveyor was added in 192526 by the Fairmont Mining Machinery Company of Fairmont.
The Hazards of 19th Century Coal Mining | eHISTORYThe Hazards of 19th Century Coal Mining | eHISTORY

The Hazards of 19th Century Coal Mining | eHISTORY

The Hazards of 19th Century Coal Mining. Industrial work during the nineteenth century was often hazardous. Nowhere was this situation more true that in coal mining. By the 1860s some anthracite coal mines in northeastern Pennsylvania had reached as much as 1,500 feet into the earth. Miners reached these depths with technologies that, by later ...
The future below: Mining in the 21st century | Penn State ...The future below: Mining in the 21st century | Penn State ...

The future below: Mining in the 21st century | Penn State ...

Mar 17, 2015 · The future below: Mining in the 21st century. Julie Eble. March 17, 2015. Think "miner" and you might picture a coaldusted, middleaged guy with a headlamp and a pick axe. Chances are you don't picture Sam Baker. Baker, a sophomore mining engineering major at Penn State, is the complete opposite. With short, combed hair and a cleancut face ...
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Penn Machine

In 1920, Penn Machine Company (PMC) began as a coal company and pioneered the manufacture of quality replacement parts for coal mining equipment. Over the years, the company has grown to become a major supplier of heavyduty OEM and aftermarket components for transit, railroad, mining, steel, construction and general industrial appliions.
About | Cincinnati Mine Machinery Co.About | Cincinnati Mine Machinery Co.

About | Cincinnati Mine Machinery Co.

The Cincinnati Mine Machinery Company (CMM) was founded in the early 1920's and bought by Edwin P. Stenger in 1924. It shared a facility with Cincinnati Shaper Company and Lodge and Shipley, two prominent members of the regions burgeoning machine tool industry.
Tennessee Coal Mining, Railroading, and Logging in ...Tennessee Coal Mining, Railroading, and Logging in ...

Tennessee Coal Mining, Railroading, and Logging in ...

The DuPont Old Hickory, TN plant was a large purchaser of Overton and Fentress County Coal from the 1920's up to 1944. After 1944, DuPont purchased much of its coal from Western Kentucky coal companies. The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) was the primary purchaser of steam coal in the 1950's and 1960's from Gentry.
History of Illinois Coal MinesHistory of Illinois Coal Mines

History of Illinois Coal Mines

Since 1885, many of the improvements made on stripping equipment and on auxiliary equipment used in surface mining, resulted from pioneering efforts in Illinois coal fields. Today we find two of the largest stripping units, the BucyrusErie 140 yd. 3850B shovel and the Marion 180 yd. 6360 shovel, working in Southern Illinois pits.
The US Coal Industry in the Nineteenth CenturyThe US Coal Industry in the Nineteenth Century

The US Coal Industry in the Nineteenth Century

The antebellum period also saw the expansion of coal mining into many more states than Pennsylvania and Virginia, as North America contains a variety of workable coalfields. Ohio's bituminous fields employed 7,000 men and raised about 320,000 tons of coal in 1850 — only three years later the state's miners had increased production to over ...