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13. Mine No. 155 Tipple, Consolidation Coal Company, Van Lear, Kentucky

Filled coal cars are lined up outside of the Williams Preparation Plant.

14. Williams Preparation Plant, Consolidation Coal Company

Division of the Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co.

15. Georgetown Preparation Plant

Mine cars and buildings around the preparation plant.

16. Hutchinson Mine Preparation Plant

Mine cars and buildings around the preparation plant.

17. Hutchinson Mine Preparation Plant

Large preparation plant with filled coal cars lining the outside.

18. Williams Preparation Plant, Consolidation Coal Company

'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.

19. Sheltered Conveyor

Scenic view of the Harmar mine facilities.

20. Harmar Preparation Plant

Large plant with filled coal cars outside.

21. Amonate Preparation Plant, Pocahontas Fuel Company

Train engine and filled coal cars outside of the preparation plant at Mine No. 32, Fairmont, W. Va.

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

'The Georgetown Prepatation Plant is here viewed from the north, showing the main entrance. Landscaping has begun and the company will build a sizable parking lot in front of the plant with auxiliary lots near the scale house (off the picture to the left) and at the track level in the rear. The enclosed raw coal conveyor and the refuse loading bin are shown at the right. This plant will serve as a central preparation facility for the strip mining and some of the underground mining operations of the Hanna Coal Company, Ohio operating division of Pittsburgh Coal Company. With a capacity of 1,500 tons of raw coal input per hour, Georgetown is the largest coal cleaning plant in the commerical bituminous industry. It has three cleaning circuits and five types of facilities for drying the coal. Integrated with the plant operation are special systems for cleaning and recirculating the water, thereby avoiding stream pollution, and for elimination of air pollution.'

23. Georgetown Preparation Plant

Georgetown Preparation Plant's raw coal conveyor and the refuse loading bin are shown in this picture.

24. Georgetown Preparation Plant