Big Sandy is know far and wide for her rich and prolific coal beds, or seams, and numerous operations are now in progress mining this product to be shipped to citizens in a less fortunate portion of the country; where coal fields are unknown. Of the many mines that are

The Building Of Consolidation City Before any Modern City can be built, there is a massive amount of planning and set up in what’s its ulitmate purpose. In this particular story the planning for Consolidation City, it started 144 years ago when a venture seeking engineer by the name of

Hendrix Mine In The Making Artist’s Conception of Hendrix Preparation Plant and Facilities. In order to maintain the required production of Cavalier Coal, Consol is planning to open a new mine on Rockhouse Creek near Deane, Kentucky. This mine will be known as Hendrix Mine named in honor of Arthur

The Marshall’s Branch Mine Complex was constructed in 1947. Marshall’s Branch was the first mine portal built away from the town of Jenkins, this was due, partly to part of the contract, where people would ride two or three hours a day which made production cost pretty expensive. The reason

Compiled by Roscoe Neal Reed On February 7, 1922, at about 4:30 P.M. an explosion at the Marietta Mine at Ball Fork, Pinson Fork, Kentucky, took the lives of nine coal miners and seriously injured at least one other. The bodies of the dead men were found all huddled together.

Headline from Moody’s “ELK HORN FUEL COMPANY Inc. Feb 3, 1913, in W. Va, to acquire and operate 199,479 acres of coal lands in fee and mineral rights in the Elkhorn field of Kentucky, Of this acreage 184,829 acres are in Letcher, Knott, Floyd, Leslie, Magoffin, Pike and Perry Counties,

Auger Mining Auger mining is done with a giant machine that operates horizontally as does a brace-and-bit. It bores into the coal seam with bits ranging in size from 2 to 7 feet in diameter, forcing out the coal as a brace-and-bit forces out wood curls when boring into wood.This

Jenkins Division Directors Of The Consolidation Coal Company No. 201 Tipple & Underground Mine 201 Mine Excavation stated last of August, 1911. No. 201 Tramway. October 8,1911 Making Progress on No. 201 Mine portal. October 8, 1911 No. 201 Mine Portal. July 26, 1912 No. 201 Tipple in the distance,

J. B. ELKHORN COAL COMPANY, Douglas, Hildason, Ky.(Mine No. 2.)Geo. A. Clutts, Superintendent; J. N. Woolum, Mine Foreman. Located on the S. V. & E. Railway. Operating the lower Elkhorn seam, 54 inches. Employing about 65 men. Electric equipment. Visited January 9, 1922. Found in fair condition. This report was

USGS TOPO MAP / DORTON 1954 Esco Railroad Siding and Tipple ESCO MINE CAR DISASTER Dec. 5, 1929 2 MEN KILLED, 2 HURT IN MINE INCLINE CRASH _______________ HATTON BURKE, SEEKING JOB, IS VICTIM AS CAR RUNS WILD _______________ TAN BRANHAM DIES AT HOSPITAL HERE _______________ OTHERS JUMP TO SAFETY