Category: Coal mining

Spending Long Weekends with Power Plant Men Shoveling Coal

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Revised 12/11/2021 Originally posted on:  June 1, 2012 I was a junk collector when I was a boy.  I considered myself an inventor so I collected all …Spending Long Weekends with Power Plant Men Shoveling Coal

This Day in History: Farmington Mine Explosion Kills 78 Miners

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On November 20, 1968, 53 years ago today, 78 miners died in an explosion at the Consol No. 9 coal mine in Farmington, West Virginia. At 5:30 in the …This Day in History: Farmington Mine Explosion Kills 78 Miners