Harrison C: Cadiz, OH: Georgetown Preparation Plant of Hanna Coal Co. and Groundhog (Marion 5561)

(Satellite, it is long gone)

These notes have photos of the five big shovels that the mine used for stripping.

Harrison Coal & Reclamation Historical Park posted two images with the comment:

Georgetown Preparation Plant - Hanna Coal Company. The Georgetown Plant was the world's largest commercial coal preparation plant, having a capacity of 1,500 tons per hour of raw coal, or 1,275 tons per hour of clean coal. Two railroads, the Nickel Plate and the Pennsylvania served the plant. Some 21 miles of single track were laid to service the plant. Some 840 railroad cars could be accommodated in the empty and loaded car yards. With the aid of an electric switching system, a man at a control panel inside the scale house could assemble the cars to make up the trains for shipment. When the plant was operating at capacity, it could load one railroad car ever 2 1/2 minutes. The railroad cars of coal were weighed almost immediately after loading. This insured that the customer did not pay freight on any moisture accumulated by rain-fall while the coal was in transit. The gases from the dryer furnaces passed through a cylindrical "scrubber", where sprays of water removed the dust before the gases were released into the atmosphere. Info from back of picture.

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Hanna became one of the major players in the Eastern and Southeastern Ohio coalfields for many years. By the 1950s at Duncanwood, Ohio, near Cadiz in Harrison County, Hanna had a complex of offices and shop buildings, and also a major coal processing center at its giant Georgetown complex of coal mines, tipples, and railroads. The company’s coal cleaning operations there, which opened in 1951, was then one of the largest preparation plants in the world, and could process 1,275 tons/hour – which was quite formidable in the 1950’s. Hanna was also one of the first to use a coal slurry pipeline to transport coal over a long distance. In 1956 the company built a 10-inch, 108-mile-long pipeline that linked the Hanna’s Georgetown prep plant near Cadiz with the Cleveland Electric Company’s Eastlake Generating Station in Cleveland. Crushed coal was mixed with water at a Hanna plant and the slurry mixture then pumped through the line to Cleveland. Between 1957 and 1963, this pipeline supplied about six million tons of coal to Cleveland Electric.

This photo has been moved to "Hanna Coal Mine's Mountaineer, it crossed I-70 in Jan 1973."

Sixteen photos of the prep plant