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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