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'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