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A pile of coal with large chunks sitting in the yard of a coal processing plant.

1. Coal Awaiting Processing

A ship sits in Salem Harbor Dock next to the coal facility.

2. Ship Docked at Coal Facility, Salem Harbor Dock, Pocahontas Fuel Company

3. Coal Facility at Humphrey Dock

Humphrey Preparation Plant and Dock situated next to the river and railraod tracks.

4. Humphrey Preparation Plant and Dock, Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company

5. Humphrey Preparation Plant and Dock, Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company

3 fold picture of the White Fuel Co., Boston.

6. White Fuel Company, Boston

Loaded coal cars outside preparation plant.

7. Coal Cars Outside of Preparation Plant

8. Railroad Coal Cars at a Tipple next to a River with Tracks for Coal Carts in the Foreground

Man riding in a coal car with loading facility in background.

9. Loaded Coal Cars

An unidentified coal loading station.

10. Coal Loading Station

A processing plant sits below miner's homes and open countryside.

11. Preparation Plant

Coal cars run down the track in a preparation plant yard.

12. Coal Preparation Plant Yard

13. Coal Plant Building

Coal buildings and a conveyor are shown in this panoramic view of the Williams Preparation Plant.

14. Williams Preparation Plant, Consolidation Coal Company

View of the mechanics of a stove coal washer.

15. Stove Coal Washer, Price Hill Colliery Company

16. Norfolk and Western Railroad Cars at an Unidentified Coal Mine

'Inside of a thermal furnace 1/2 showing.'

17. Thermal Furnace

Miners working on a thermal dryer.

18. Thermal Dryer

Men standing outside of the plant talking.

19. Visitors at the Hanna Coal Company's Georgetown Preparation Plant

Visitors getting back onto the buses at the Georgetown Preparation Plant.

20. Georgetown Preparation Plant

21. Visitors Outside a Hanna Coal Company Preparation Plant

Unit 25-3B.

22. Recirculating Pump for Water in Tipple

23. Jig with Double Middling and Interior Refuse Conveyor

24. Thermal Dryer Dust Collector

25. Loading Ramp to Cement Floor

26. Loading Coal at a Coal Preparation Plant

'On the top level of the heat drier building showing, from left to right, the motors, blowers and tops of the cyclones. The vertical tubes are exhaust stacks for the waste heating gases and moisture. The driers themselves are long, vertical tubes, located beneath this deck. A blast of hot gasses dries the coal and the cyclones then separate the coal from the waste gasses and moisture. Purpose of the drying operation is to reduce the moisture acquired in coal washing, 'or from the atmosphere during storage on the stock pile', and provide the processing plant with a uniform charge material.

27. Heat Drier Building

Coal traveling on a conveyor.

28. Conveyor Belt at Jamison No. 9

Miner examines coal traveling down a conveyor inside the Hutchinson Preparation Plant, Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company.

29. Interior of the Hutchinson Preparation Plant

The incline is 4360 feet long and has a vertical rise of 1335 feet. Six cars each carrying 4 tons each would be loaded each trip.

30. Incline at Clover Splint Mine

A few mine buildings and some houses.

31. Coaling Station

Conveyor belt in the middle of the mountains.

32. Raw Coal Conveyor System

Filled coal cars outside of the Preparation Plant.

33. Champion No. 1 Preparation Plant

'The Plus 6" coal will be crushed to minus 1.5" and two 16,6" Chance Cones will wash the 6 x 3/8 coal. Current production of approximately 1800 tons per day is crushed to minus 1.25" then trucked to the storage yard of the new Kammer Power plant.'

34. Ireland Mine Preparation Plant

35. Ireland Mine Portal Area Supply Slope

Coal buildings at the Mathies Mine, a division of Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co.

36. Mathies Mine Preparation Plant

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

37. Williams Preparation Plant, Consolidation Coal Company

'The Georgetown Preparation Plant is the world's largest commercial coal preparation plant, having a capacity of 1,500 tons per hour of raw coal, or 1,275 tons per hour of clean coal. The plant has facilities for dumping bottom-dump tractor-trailer and end-dump trucks, and for rotary and bottom dumping of railroad cars. Coal from these dumps goes into a 1,500 ton bin, from which it is conveyed on a 641 foot belt conveyor to the primary shaker screens. Whereas the conventional coal perparation plant provides only one circuit for all coal washed, the Georgetown plant is unique, in that it provides three separate washing circuites, each of which is designed to most efficiently clean a certain size fraction.'

38. Georgetown Preparation Plant

Division of the Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co.

39. Georgetown Preparation Plant

Mine cars and buildings around the preparation plant.

40. Hutchinson Mine Preparation Plant

Mine cars and buildings around the preparation plant.

41. Hutchinson Mine Preparation Plant

Line of large coal buildings. Filled coal cars lined up outside as well.

42. Disco Plant with Champion No. 1 Preparation Plant in Background

Large preparation plant with filled coal cars lining the outside.

43. Williams Preparation Plant, Consolidation Coal Company

'An overall view of the new plant at Williams No. 98 Mine of Consolidation Coal Compnay (W. Va.) is shown. Coal comes from the mine on a 558 foot conveyor belt at the left to the top of the plant past the old tipple (shown dark against the new structure) which is now being removed. Through intricate processes it is screened and sized and loaded into railroad cars on four tracks which pass under the tipple (center). Impurities removed from the coal are carried on another long conveyor to a hilltop slate dump shown in the extreme upper right corner. This mine is named for Eugene Williams of Romney, W. Va. Mr. Williams is Chairman of the Board of Western Maryland Railroad. Williams Preparation Plant, convering over three acres of floor space on eight levels is a steel and concrete structure 100 feet high and fully enclosed without a single window. this windowless 'factory' is a mystifying innovation to all who visit the plant. It is equipped with a ventilating system, fluorescent lighting, and a complete vacuum type dust collection system that gather in all air borne particles at their source. All of these measures promote health, safety and good housekeeping. The raw coal is delivered to the preparation plant at a rate of 450 tons per hour by a 558 foot belt which picks up the coal at the rotary mine car dump at the bottom of the slope. After the coal is crushed down to 5 inch top size the raw coal is fed into a 15 foot diameter chance cone yielding 278 tons of 'float-kleen' coal per hour. The washing process operates on the principle of gravity separation, a fluid mass of sand and water being utilized as the density medium. Designed and built by Fairmont Machinery Company placed in operation March 31, 1953;  No windows, dust collection system; track storage, 100 empties, 80 loads; Present daily capacity, 8500 tons; potential daily capacity, 15,000 tons; coal reserves, 80,000,000 tones, Pittsburgh seam; slack dried, centrifugal and thermal dryers; oil treating facilities for stoker grades; served by two railroads, WM and B&O; Plant named for Eugene Williams of Romney, W. Va. Board Chairman of the Western Maryland Railroad.'

44. Williams Preparation Plant, Consolidation Coal Company

View of mine buildings at the Acme Mine.

45. Acme Mine

'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.

46. Sheltered Conveyor

Scenic view of the Harmar mine facilities.

47. Harmar Preparation Plant

Large plant with filled coal cars outside.

48. Amonate Preparation Plant, Pocahontas Fuel Company

'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.'

49. Georgetown Preparation Plant

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

50. Georgetown Preparation Plant

'The Georgetown Preparation Plant is the world's largest commerical coal preparation plant, having a capacity of 1,500 tons per hour of raw coal, or 1,275   tons per hour of clean coal.'

51. Georgetown Preparation Plant

Preparation plant and mine buildings at Anderson Mine.

52. Anderson Mine, Fairmont Coal Company

53. Jamison No. 9 Preparation Plant

Four people stand outside the doorway to a portion of the Jamison Preparation Plant.

54. Jamison No. 9 Preparation Plant

55. Jamison No. 9 Preparation Plant

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad cars pass under the preparation plant buildings.

56. Jamison No. 9 Mine Buildings

Conveyor outside of preparation plant unloading coal. Miner helps fill up the mine car.

57. Conveyor Unloading Coal

Exterior buildings of the Mathies Mine Pittsburgh Coal Co. Preparation Plant.

58. Mathies Mine Preparation Plant

Preparation plant with a few houses on the hill behind the plant.

59. Mine Buildings

Plant with filled Chesapeake and Ohio railroad cars beside of it.

60. Preparation Plant

61. Itmann Preparation Plant, Pocahontas Fuel Company

C.E.I. Drying Plant and Storage Pools in foreground.

62. Hanna Coal Company C. E. I. Drying Plant

Two men walk along the tracks in front of mine buildings.

63. Coal Preparation Plant

Mine buildings and filled coal cars.

64. Coal Preparation Plant

Exterior buildings and railroad tracks at the Mathies Mine Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co., Preparation Plant.

65. Mathies Mine Preparation Plant

Mathies Mine, Pittsburgh Coal Co., a division of Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company.

66. Mathies Mine Preparation Plant

Coal preparation plant buildings at Mathies Mine.

67. Mathies Mine Preparation Plant

Disco fuel brought by conveyor to screen house and loading boom (shown), where blended and sized for market. At right, ascending conveyor.

68. Disco Fuel

View of the preparation plant from the North East.

69. Georgetown Preparation Plant

Looking down from top of a raw coal conveyor at receiving station.

70. Georgetown Preparation Plant

'The Georgetown Preparation Plant was the worlds largest commercial coal preparation plant, having a capacity of 1,500 tons per hour of raw coal, or 1,275 tons per hour of clean coal. The plant has facilities for dumping bottom-dump tractor-trailer and end-dump trucks, and for rotary and bottom dumping of railroad cars. Coal from these dumps goes into a 1,500 ton bin, from which it is conveyed on a 641 foot belt conveyor to the primary shaker screens. Whereas the conventional coal perparation plant provides only one circuit for all coal washed, the Georgetown plant is unique, in that it provides three separate washing circuites, each of which is designed to most efficiently clean a certain size fraction.'

71. Georgetown Preparation Plant

This plant supplied coal for the Disco Plant.

72. Champion No. 1 Preparation Plant

73. Disco Plant with Champion No. 1 Preparation Plant in Background

'Part of Hanna Coal Co. Prep. Plant. Shown is P.F., Tipple, Wash 7 X 0 inches, and  Crusher.'

74. Hanna Coal Company Preparation Plant

Coal preparation plant buildings at the Mathies Mine.

75. Mathies Mine Preparation Plant

Front view of the Hanna Coal Co. Georgetown Prep. Plant

76. Georgetown Preparation Plant

View of the plant from across river.

77. Georgetown Preparation Plant

View of the plant from across river.

78. Georgetown Preparation Plant

View of the plant from across river.

79. Georgetown Preparation Plant

View from side of river.

80. Georgetown Preparation Plant

81. Georgetown Preparation Plant

82. Georgetown Preparation Plant

Dump trucks lined up to dump coal for processing through the plant.

83. Dumping Raw Coal at Georgetown Preparation Plant

Unidentified preparation plant. 'No. 207.'

84. Preparation Plant

View of the entire plant with some cars and a motorcycle parked out front. 'Noted Oct 17, 1952, J.B.F.'

85. Georgetown Preparation Plant

Color photograph showing the preparation plant and painted silos next to it. John Williams / Coal Life Project.

86. Preparation Plant with Painted Storage Bins

Unidentified preparation plant.

87. Preparation Plant

Buildings of the Harmar Preparation Plant, Harmar Coal Company.

88. Harmar Preparation Plant, Harmar Coal Company

Employees are seen entering a building of the Consolidation Coal Co., Ohio Division.

89. Inspection Tour Group Outside Plant of Glen Castle No. 6 Mine, Hanna Coal Company, Consol Ohio Coals

Aerial view of the plant, railroad cars, and docks.

90. Humphrey Preparation Plant and Dock, Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company

View of the Mathies Mine buildings.

91. Mathies Mine Preparation Plant

92. Preparation Plant and Tipple at Bishop Mine, Pocahontas Fuel Company

Pump Station No. 1 at left, Crushing Plant. In the foreground is one of three storage pools that feed to the pipe line.

93. Hanna Coal Company Pump Station No. 1

Lots of cars parked out front as well as filled coal cars coming out of the plant.

94. Williams Preparation Plant, Consolidation Coal Company

A coal preparation plant sits at the bottom of the hill.  Trains line up to the plant.

95. Williams Preparation Plant, Consolidation Coal Company

Trains line up to the preparation plant.

96. Williams Preparation Plant, Consolidation Coal Company

A conveyor belt runs to a coal shoot at the preparation plant, possibly Miracle Rune Mine.

97. Preparation Plant

A processing plant with adjacent railroad tracks.

98. Jamison No. 21 Mine

A processing plant with adjacent railroad tracks.

99. Jamison No. 21 Mine

C.E.T. Drying Plant. Storage Pool in foreground.

100. Hanna Pipeline