1. Anthracite Coal in the Lower Susquehanna Valley
Visual Environmental Education Guide
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2. 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.

3. Formation of Anthracite Coal
This is how anthracite coal is formed in the Earth.
grantowngrammar.highland.sch.uk

4. Another illustration to show how coal is formed
coal.infomine.com

5. The Anthracite fields are known as the Northern, Eastern-middle, Western-middle, and Southern fields
Image from Ben Marsh

6. Image from Ben Marsh
The Shamokin region is the most disturbed rural landscape in Pennsylvania due to coal production

7. Coal miners in action
coalcampmemories.com
These are pictures from the early coal mining years
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8. A group of coal miners
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9. 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

10. Steady decline in Anthracite coal mining
This is a graph illustrating how coal extraction has declined since its peak in 1917

11. The biggest use of coal is in electrical utilities

12. Orange creek from acid mine drainage
Images from Ben Marsh
These images are from Shamokin Creek
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13. Quaker Run — tributary to Shamokin Creek

14. Deep mining
One of the methods of coal mining
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15. Strip-mining
Another method of coal mining
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16. Abandoned mine land near residences in the Western-Middle Coal Field.
Local example of how coal mining has affected the built environment

17. Nemacolin Gob Pile in Greene County, PA
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18. Coal mining in Shamokin, PA
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19. Culm, or waste coal, in Shamokin
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20. Culm in Shamokin
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21. Waste coal on fire in Shamokin
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