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Satellite, this was the biggest mining operation I could find. But I couldn't find the dragline.)
As of Feb 2023,
the Marion 7820 is being reassembled in Florida.
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Gary Hershey posted, cropped
Jeff Wilkison: Where's this location and where's it headed.
Leon Gearhart: Jeff Wilkison Miami Fl Titan aggregate mine.
[One of the comments mentioned Somerset County.] |
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| Carl ODell commented on Gary's post, cropped |
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Carl ODell commented on Gary's post, cropped
[Severstal on the crane and the Somerset County comment is what allowed me to find the mining company history below.] |
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Carl ODell commented on Gary's post, cropped
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The Russian Severstal steel company bought PBS Coals in 2008 for $1.3b to provide the metallurgical coal it needed to make coke at its steel plants in the USA. [
MarketWatch]
PBS Coals had six underground and six surface coal mines in Somerset County, PA. "PBS has the capacity to produce over 4 million metric tons of metallurgical coal annually and has 133.5 million metric tons of in-place coal reserves. Through its acquisition of PBS, Severstal expects to achieve benefits from the vertical integration of its upstream operations and to increase its self-sufficiency with regard to primary raw materials supply for its North American operations. Severstal acquired Wheeling-Pittsburgh parent company Esmark Inc. earlier this month (four plants in Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania) and has purchased plants in Baltimore, Md., and Warren, Ohio." [
IndustrialHeating, paycount 2]
In 2014, Severstal sold the mine for $140m to the Canadian coal company Corsa Coal. Over half that amount is the assumption of reclamation and water treatment liabilities. "PBS has 13 mines and two coal-preparation plants with access to CSX and Norfolk Southern Railway lines. Together the mines sold about 2.5 million and 1.7 million tons of premium quality, low volatile metallurgical coal in 2012 and 2013, respectively." [
tribdem]
It is harder to find the more modern strip mines on satellite images because they do a better job of reclaiming the land.
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| 1981 Berlin and 1994 Stoystown Quad @ 24,000 |
I don't know if this is digging in this mine or a neighboring anthracite mine.
2 of 6 photos
posted by Lucibello Heavy Equipment photography with the comment: "Manitowoc 4600, nicknamed “crunchy”, digging anthracite right from the near vertical seam. The 4600 is the most popular dragline in the region with id say well over twenty machines still operating on a daily basis."
[There were several positive comments about the 4600 and no negative comments. Manitowoc still makes parts for the 4600.]
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Jim Ball: Is that raw anthracite right out of the hole?
Lucibello Heavy Equipment photography: Jim Ball yup right from Vein. |
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| Jack Hall commented on Lucibello's post |
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