The Development of Surface Coal Mining in IndianaState of Indiana, Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey, 1985 - Coal mines and mining - 54 pages |
Contents
Foreword | 1 |
Early surface mining in Indiana | 7 |
Sidewall drilling | 14 |
3 other sections not shown
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180-cubic-yard shovel acquired acreage acres Akremite AMAX Coal Co.'s ammonium nitrate ANFO areas Ayrshire Collieries Corp began Big Muskie boom Boonville bucketwheel excavators bulldozers churn drills Clay Clay County Coal Age Coal Co.'s Ayrshire coal companies Coal Corp coal in Indiana coal industry coal mining coal producer coal seam cost cubic yards Danville detonating developed Dugger early electric shovels Enos equipment farming feet of overburden Figure Geological Geologist Gibson Counties Handloading haulage holes Illinois increased installed large stripping shovels largest shovels loading coal Lynnville machines Maumee Collieries maximum merger Midwest midwestern million tons mines in Indiana Ohio OPERATIONS IN INDIANA output overburden Peabody Coal Peabody's percent Pike County production of surface-mined railroad reclamation laws remove overburden rock rotary drills Sherwood-Templeton shovels and draglines steam shovels steam-powered strip mines strip-mine strippable Sullivan surface mines surface-mined coal trucks U.S. Bureau underground mining Vermillion County Vigo Warrick County western coal