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'The nature of Hanna Coal's surface mining operations is illustrated here. Among the company's seven strip shovels for removing the overburden and uncovering the 52-inch vein of coal, are four giants weighing in the neighborhood of 1,800 tons each, equipped with booms up to 120 feet long, and with scoops having a capacity up to 50 cubic yards. Each of these large shovels can move enough stone and earth per year to cover a football field more than a mile high.'

4357. Hanna Coal Company Shovels at Work

'The nature of Hanna Coal's surface mining operations is illustrated here. Among the company's seven strip shovels for removing the overburden and uncovering the 52-inch vein of coal, are four giants weighing in the neighborhood of 1,800 tons each, equipped with booms up to 120 feet long, and with scoops having a capacity up to 50 cubic yards. Each of these large shovels can move enough stone and earth per year to cover a football field more than a mile high.'

4358. Hanna Coal Company Shovels at Work

4359. Results of Open Cut Mining

Marion Shovel Model 28 during strip mining.  Donkey is pulling a cart.

4360. Marevsky Strip Mining Operation

Marion Power Shovel Company shovel, The Mountaineer, working on a surface mine.

4361. Mountaineer, the World's Largest Shovel

Hanna Coal Co. Shovels: 'looks like 'The Mountaineer' on the right and probably 'The Tiger' on 'The Green Hornet' on the left.'

4362. Hanna Coal Company Shovels at Work

Shovel strip mining a hillside.

4363. Shovel at Work on a Surface Mine

Two cranes surface mining a gorge.  Dump trucks taking away hillside ruble.

4364. Strip Mining Operation, Georgetown No.12 Mine

4365. Mountaineer, the World's Largest Shovel

From glass lantern slide of stripping coal in Hazleton, Pa.

4366. Strip Mining Operation in Hazleton, Pa.

From glass lantern slide of stripping coal in Hazleton, Pa.

4367. Strip Mining Operation in Hazleton, Pa.

4368. Ruins of Fire Creek Blacksmith Shop