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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.'

3385. Georgetown Preparation Plant

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

3386. 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.'

3387. Georgetown Preparation Plant

Exterior buildings of the Four States Mine in Marion County, W. Va.

3388. Four States Mine, Marion County, W. Va.

Preparation plant and mine buildings at Anderson Mine.

3389. Anderson Mine, Fairmont Coal Company

3390. Jamison No. 9 Preparation Plant

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

3391. Jamison No. 9 Preparation Plant

3392. Jamison No. 9 Preparation Plant

Located in Marion County.

3393. Jamison Coal & Coke Company, No. 9 Preparation Plant, Farmington, W. Va.

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

3394. Jamison No. 9 Mine Buildings

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

3395. Conveyor Unloading Coal

3396. Washer and Tipple, Colliery No. 1, Ellsworth, Pa.