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Pages in category "Coal towns in Ohio" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. ... Kings Mine, Ohio; Kipling, Ohio; M. Millfield, Ohio; O.
The following table lists the coal mines in the United States that produced at least 4,000,000 short tons of coal. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), there were 853 coal mines in the U.S. in 2015, producing a total of 896,941,000 short tons of coal.
The Century Mine was an underground [1] coal mine in Belmont County, Ohio owned by American Energy Corporation, a subsidiary of Murray Energy. [2] [3] It was the last remaining mine in the county [4] before it was shut down in 2022. [2] [5] The mine produced around 5 million tons of coal per year. [6]
The area of Mineral Ridge was primarily a farming community, with some coal mining in the 1830s. In the mid-1850s, John Lewis, superintendent of the Mineral Ridge Coal Mines, discovered black band iron ore beneath the layers of coal ore, leading to a boom of companies working with the blast furnaces of Brier Hill, Niles, and later, Mineral Ridge itself. [6]
New Straitsville was founded in 1870 as a coal mining town by the New Straitsville Mining Company. The town grew quickly and by 1880 the population was over 4,000 people. The coal mining activity ended in 1884, when a labor dispute at the mine ended with a group of miners sending a burning coal car into the mine, igniting the coal.
Today, it is still one of the major employers in Morgan County, Ohio, [6] although its high-sulfur coal now spurs little demand. [7] Many of the company's employees were members of the United Mine Workers. [8] 10,000 acres (40 km2) of reclaimed land owned by the company was donated to form The Wilds. [9]
A coalfield is an area of certain uniform characteristics where coal is mined. The criteria for determining the approximate boundary of a coalfield are geographical and cultural, in addition to geological. A coalfield often groups the seams of coal, railroad companies, cultural groups, and watersheds and other geographical considerations.
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.