Sunday, February 5, 2023

Eighty Four, PA: 1953-2010 Consol Mine 84/Bethlehem Somerset Coal Mine #60

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This mine was closed in 2010. [gem] Gem specifies a location. CoalDiver (whoops, I forgot ro record the link) puts the address of record as here. Neither of these locations are near a railroad. Nor do those locations agree with sources that put Somerset Mine #60 near Cokeburg or Bentleyville. I spent a lot of time trying to find the location of the tipple, but I couldn't find it.

"Machinery, equipment and employees" were transferred from Mine #51 to transform Mine #60 into Mine 84.  [CoalCampUSA]

Bethlehem Steel Corporation, “Somerset Mine #60, Ellsworth Division,” Bethlehem Steel Corporation Photo Collection, accessed February 5, 2023, https://nmihbethlehemsteel.omeka.net/items/show/364. cropped

Bethlehem Steel Corporation, “Somerset Mine #60, Ellsworth Division,” Bethlehem Steel Corporation Photo Collection, accessed February 5, 2023, https://nmihbethlehemsteel.omeka.net/items/show/362.

AmericanIndustrailMining-gallery via AmericanIndustrialMining


Bethlehem Steel Corporation, “Somerset Mine #60, Ellsworth Division,” Bethlehem Steel Corporation Photo Collection, accessed February 5, 2023, https://nmihbethlehemsteel.omeka.net/items/show/383.

Bethlehem Steel Corporation, “Somerset Mine #60, Continuous Miner working at the face, Ellsworth Division,” Bethlehem Steel Corporation Photo Collection, accessed February 5, 2023, https://nmihbethlehemsteel.omeka.net/items/show/381.

Bethlehem Steel Corporation, “Somerset Mine #60, Drilling holes for roof supports, Ellsworth Division,” Bethlehem Steel Corporation Photo Collection, accessed February 5, 2023, https://nmihbethlehemsteel.omeka.net/items/show/378.

Bethlehem Steel Corporation, “Somerset Mine #60, Loading a Charge, Ellsworth Division,” Bethlehem Steel Corporation Photo Collection, accessed February 5, 2023, https://nmihbethlehemsteel.omeka.net/items/show/377.

Bethlehem Steel Corporation, “Somerset Mine #60, Ellsworth Division,” Bethlehem Steel Corporation Photo Collection, accessed February 5, 2023, https://nmihbethlehemsteel.omeka.net/items/show/376.

Bethlehem Steel Corporation, “Somerset Mine #60, Ellsworth Division,” Bethlehem Steel Corporation Photo Collection, accessed February 5, 2023, https://nmihbethlehemsteel.omeka.net/items/show/375.
This is the post that motivated researching this mine.
Remembering Bethlehem Mines posted
Somerset Mine #60, "Taking Mining Crew in or out of mine," Ellsworth Division, 1967
https://nmihbethlehemsteel.omeka.net/items/show/372
James Torgeson shared
Bethlehem Mines Ellsworth Division, 1967.
Mike Repka: this must have been the one in or near Mariana Pa.?
Dennis DeBruler: Mike Repka I've seen the number "58" for the Marianna mine.

This rail loading looks different than the second photo in these notes.
AmericanIndustrailMining-gallery via AmericanIndustrialMining

2:19 video @ 1:53

Consol Energy switched the mine to longwall mining. [BureauOfMining, minedocs] The mining operation did undermine a retail nursery. [ehstoday] The mine lives on as a possible source of surface subsidence. [SurfaceSubsidence] Mining may be safer for the workers, but it is not safer for the buildings above the mines. [PublicIntegrity]

Consol Energy has three mines left in Pennsylvania. The coal is exported at Baltimore, MD. [ConsoleEnergy

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