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View of mine buildings at the Acme Mine.

3385. Acme Mine

IDNO:
003387
Title:
Acme Mine
Description:
View of mine buildings at the 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.

3386. Sheltered Conveyor

IDNO:
003388
Title:
Sheltered Conveyor
Description:
'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.
Scenic view of the Harmar mine facilities.

3387. Harmar Preparation Plant

IDNO:
003389
Title:
Harmar Preparation Plant
Date:
1955/05/03
Description:
Scenic view of the Harmar mine facilities.
Large plant with filled coal cars outside.

3388. Amonate Preparation Plant, Pocahontas Fuel Company

IDNO:
003390
Title:
Amonate Preparation Plant, Pocahontas Fuel Company
Description:
Large plant with filled coal cars outside.
Train engine and filled coal cars outside of the preparation plant at Mine No. 32, Fairmont, W. Va.

3389. Consolidation Coal Company Mine No. 32, Fairmont, W. Va.

IDNO:
003391
Title:
Consolidation Coal Company Mine No. 32, Fairmont, W. Va.
Description:
Train engine and filled coal cars outside of the preparation plant at 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.'

3390. Georgetown Preparation Plant

IDNO:
003392
Title:
Georgetown Preparation Plant
Description:
'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.'
Georgetown Preparation Plant's raw coal conveyor and the refuse loading bin are shown in this picture.

3391. Georgetown Preparation Plant

IDNO:
003393
Title:
Georgetown Preparation Plant
Description:
Georgetown Preparation Plant's raw coal conveyor and the refuse loading bin are shown in this picture.
'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.'

3392. Georgetown Preparation Plant

IDNO:
003394
Title:
Georgetown Preparation Plant
Description:
'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.'
Exterior buildings of the Four States Mine in Marion County, W. Va.

3393. Four States Mine, Marion County, W. Va.

IDNO:
003395
Title:
Four States Mine, Marion County, W. Va.
Description:
Exterior buildings of the Four States Mine in Marion County, W. Va.
Preparation plant and mine buildings at Anderson Mine.

3394. Anderson Mine, Fairmont Coal Company

IDNO:
003396
Title:
Anderson Mine, Fairmont Coal Company
Description:
Preparation plant and mine buildings at Anderson Mine.

3395. Jamison No. 9 Preparation Plant

IDNO:
003397
Title:
Jamison No. 9 Preparation Plant
Four people stand outside the doorway to a portion of the Jamison Preparation Plant.

3396. Jamison No. 9 Preparation Plant

IDNO:
003398
Title:
Jamison No. 9 Preparation Plant
Description:
Four people stand outside the doorway to a portion of the Jamison Preparation Plant.