Anthracite Coal in the Lower Susquehanna Valley Visual Environmental Education Guide Use this powerpoint as an aid in teaching the material from the “story”
Anthracite Coal This is what anthracite coal looks like. Its shiny, black properties and high carbon content create an almost smokeless heat, which is why has been used to heat homes throughout history.
Formation of Anthracite Coal This is how anthracite coal is formed in the Earth. grantowngrammar.highland.sch.uk
Another illustration to show how coal is formed coal.infomine.com
The Anthracite fields are known as the Northern, Eastern-middle, Western-middle, and Southern fields Image from Ben Marsh
Image from Ben Marsh The Shamokin region is the most disturbed rural landscape in Pennsylvania due to coal production
Coal miners in action coalcampmemories.com These are pictures from the early coal mining years knickles.com
A group of coal miners Image from Ben Marsh
In 1828, the “Reading Railroad” was constructed, which served as one of the major transportation methods for coal to move across the country nationalcorridors.org
Steady decline in Anthracite coal mining This is a graph illustrating how coal extraction has declined since its peak in 1917 http://www.treehugger.com/corporate-responsibility/appalachian-coal-set-for-big-decline-protests-high-profile-debates-or-not.html
The biggest use of coal is in electrical utilities
Orange creek from acid mine drainage Images from Ben Marsh These images are from Shamokin Creek Image from Ben Marsh
Quaker Run — tributary to Shamokin Creek http://www.srbc.net/pubinfo/techdocs/Publication_279/AnthraciteSummary279a.PDF
Deep mining One of the methods of coal mining Image from Ben Marsh
Strip-mining Another method of coal mining Image from Ben Marsh
Abandoned mine land near residences in the Western-Middle Coal Field. Local example of how coal mining has affected the built environment http://www.srbc.net/pubinfo/techdocs/Publication_279/AnthraciteSummary279a.PDF
Nemacolin Gob Pile in Greene County, PA Energyjustice.net
Coal mining in Shamokin, PA Image from Ben Marsh
Culm, or waste coal, in Shamokin Image from Ben Marsh
Culm in Shamokin Image from Ben Marsh
Waste coal on fire in Shamokin Image from Ben Marsh