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NMMR's oldest mine: 1792 anthracite coal, "Old Mine." One of NMMR's oldest mine maps: 1859 anthracite coal map from Hazleton Coal Co. The NMMR contains digital and microfilm maps of surface and underground coal, metal, and non-metal mines throughout the United States. Some of the information that can be obtained from the repository includes:
Coal Creek Mine: Arch Coal [4] Surface Wyoming 8,963,048 River View Mine: River View Coal Underground Kentucky: 8,961,616 Rosebud Mine: Westmoreland Coal Company [10] Surface Montana 8,630,002 Bear Run Mine: Peabody Bear Run Mining Surface Indiana: 7,271,178 Falkirk Mine: North American Coal Corporation [7] Surface
The drift mine collapsed soon afterwards and the settlement diminished into obscurity. The main Diamond coal seam is likely equivalent to the Upper Freeport coal. John S. Newberry, from Columbia University and Chief Geologist of the Geological Survey of Ohio, was the first paleontologist to investigate the Linton area. [9]
The Harrison County History of Coal Museum, also known as the Puskarich Coal Museum, is a non-profit educational museum featuring information about coal mining. It opened in May 1994 in Cadiz, Ohio in the lower level of the Puskarich Public Library .
From the 1960s to the late 1980s, the company employed nearly 1,000 people in southeastern Ohio, [4] producing up to 1.7 million tons of coal annually. [5] Today, it is still one of the major employers in Morgan County, Ohio, [6] although its high-sulfur coal now spurs little demand. [7]
Summary of productive mines in the Fosterville neighborhood: . Foster No.1 Mine (1873-1884) operated by the Foster Coal Company; produced 400 tons/day and was the most productive of all South Side Youngstown mines; original entrance located just east of current home at 537 Hylda Street; shaft currently capped with 12-inch (300 mm) concrete with reinforced one-inch steel bars.
The plant uses high sulfur waste coal from the Rosebud Coal Mine's topmost one foot layer of coal. [9] In 1998, plants 1-4 were sold to a group led by PPL Corporation (PPL) [10] and Puget Sound Energy [11] (PSE). The Rosebud Coal Mine was sold to Westmoreland Mining LLC. [12] [13] In this same year, the City of Colstrip was incorporated.
It became Hanna Mining in 1885. Incorporation took place in 1922 and was named as the M.A. Hanna Company. In 1929 the Hanna Company transferred its blast furnaces, coke ovens, and other assets for stock of the National Steel Corporation. Hanna's bituminous coal properties were exchanged for stock of the newly formed Consolidation Coal Company ...