When the sun goes down, silence typically blankets Nemacolin, a village along the Monongahela...Moore, Daniel
The buildings above the basin are mainly shanty towns, and local residents have endured damage caused by surface subsidence for many years [10,11,12]. Pennsylvania has more than 50 years of mining history, and about 600 longwall faces have been mined. The mining of 25 faces has resulted ...
"Amazingly thorough, obsessively comprehensive documentation of coal mines and coal mining towns in the Appalachian mountain area. " - Encyclopedia of Forlorn Places. EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA EASTERN OHIO WESTERN MARYLAND NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA ...
Major coalfields in North America include the Appalachian, Pennsylvania, and Uinta in the USA and the Alberta in Canada. The most important coalfields in Asia, outside the USSR, are the Zonguldak and Anatolia in Turkey, the Fushun and Huang Ho in China, and the Martapura and Bukitasam ...
“Wood, our common Fewel, which within these 100 Years might be had at every Man’s Door, must now be fetch’d near 100 Miles to some towns, and makes a very considerable Article in the Expence of Families,” he wrote. Johann David Schoepf, a German physician and botanist who ...
Wamsted urges other towns to look to Homer City as a cautionary tale. “That community is not likely going to be the last unless local leaders begin planning now,” he warned in his report. Private capital—a mix of private companies and private equity firms—owns some 60% of fo...
The game was born out of distinctly American forms of machinery, from Walter Camp’s New Haven Clock Company to the bituminous coal and mill towns of Pennsylvania. From Washington Post Murray Energy says it is the largest underground coal mining company in the U.S., employing nearly 7,000 ...
When the Great Depression struck northeastern Pennsylvania, coal mining towns like Carbondale--and its large population of Italian-American residents--underwent significant industrial reorganization and transformation. As a result, first- and second-generation Italian-American women experienced shifts in ...
Pennsylvania is home to hundreds of coal mining communities that sprang to life at the turn of the century. As mining increased in importance these towns c... AE Salsgiver - Dissertations & Theses - Gradworks 被引量: 0发表: 2012年 Coal: Strip Mining Mineral Deeds: 'All Coal;' Strip Muun...
Have you ever lived in a place where one certain resource becomes an entire way of life? That is the power that coal has in the Appalachian Mountains. The film is shot across multiple states; Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and West Virginia where director Elaine ...