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a coal mining ghost town [51] Gold Mine [52] Grays Run: An obscure logging town. [53] Greenwood Furnace: Huntingdon County: Jackson Township: Formerly home to a booming iron industry, the town declined after new techniques rendered its facilities obsolete. [54] Hart Town: Indiana County: Young Township: Once a coal mining town, the mines at ...
The company operated the mine until 1942 when the U.S. Government closed gold mines because of the war effort. On August 27, 1922, when forty-seven miners were trapped by fire in the nearby Argonaut Mine 4,650 feet (1,409 m) below ground, rescue efforts were launched from the Kennedy Mine to connect the tunnels of the two mines. Unfortunately ...
The Barren Fork Coal Camp and Mine Archeological District is a 210 acres (0.85 km 2) historic district near Whitley City, Kentucky which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. It is also designated 15MC808 and 15MC809. [1] It is presumably located near or on Barren Fork Rd., north of Whitley City.
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Mine: State: Coordinates: Town: Owner: Dates: Comments: Pyne Mine: Alabama 33°22′33.18″N 86°55′21.65″W Lacey's Chapel: Woodward Iron Company: 1918–1971 One of only two shaft mines dug in the Birmingham District, and the last ore mine to operate in the region, closing in 1971. Sloss Mines: Alabama 33.39816°N 86.93276°W Red Mountain
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Blue Heron, also known as Mine 18, is a former coal mining community or coal town on the banks of the Big South Fork of the Cumberland River in McCreary County, Kentucky, United States, that has been recreated and is maintained as an interpretive history area in the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area. [3] Coal tipple at Blue Heron
A coalfield is an area of certain uniform characteristics where coal is mined. The criteria for determining the approximate boundary of a coalfield are geographical and cultural, in addition to geological.