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A Pictorial Walk Through
Use the following list of pictures as your guide. You may not want to look at all the pictures, so pick one the ones that interest you and enjoy.
the 20th Century Collieries, Tipples, Headframes and Plants Glossary of Terms
headframe. The steel or timber frame at the top of a shaft, which carries the sheave or pulley for the hoisting rope, and serves various other purposes. Also called gallows frame; hoist frame; shad stocks. Also called headgear. Includes all the raised structure around the shaft which is used for lading and unlading cages. Can. Gallows over shaft to which cable for hoisting is attached. tipple. Originally the place where the mine cars were tipped and emptied of their coal, and still used in that sense, although now more generally applied to the surface structures of a mine, including the preparation plant and loading tracks. trip. A small train of mine cars. The cars hauled at one time by mules, or by any motor, or run at one time on a slope, plane, or sprag road. washery.
Fan beside opening of No. 1 East Mine, east of Primero, Colorado Primero "A" Mine, Primero Colorado January 31, 1910 Coal mine explosion killed 75 miners. Picture No. 2 Surface plant of the M.K.& T. Mine No. 16, Mineral Kansas March 18, 1911 Surface coal mine explosion killed 5 miners. Picture No. 3 Scene at the explosion of the Sykesville Mine. Sykesville Mine, Cascade Coal and Coke, Sykesville, Pennsylvania July 15, 1911 Coal mine explosion killed 21 miners. Picture No. 4 Tipple, boiler house and Mine Safety Car No. 4 No. 4 mine of the Kemmerer Coal Co., Susie, Wyoming January 20, 1912 Coal mine explosion killed 6 miners. Picture No. 5 Pit mouth, tipple and Boiler House No. 4 mine of the Kemmerer Coal Co., Susie, Wyoming January 20, 1912 Coal mine explosion killed 6 miners. Picture No. 6 McCurtain No. 2 Mine, San Boise Coal Co., Haskell Co., Oklahoma March 20, 1912 Coal mine explosion killed 73 miners. Picture No. 7 Cincinnati Mine - River Tipple Cincinnati Mine, Pittsburgh Coal Co., Finleyville, Pennsylvania April 23, 1913 Coal mine explosion killed 98 miners. Picture No. 8 Head House Noble Mine, Imperial Mining Co., Belle County, Ohio May 17, 1913 Coal mine explosion killed 15 miners. Picture No. 9 Eccles No. 5 Mine, Eccles, West Virginia April 28, 1914 Coal mine explosion killed 181 miners. Picture No. 10 Surface arrangement at Mulga Mine, Mulga, Alabama October 5, 1914 Coal mine explosion killed 16 miners. Picture No. 11 Coal sizing plant, power plant, tipple and head frame. North or No. 1 Mine, Royalton, Illinois October 27, 1914 Coal mine explosion killed 52 miners. Picture No. 12 A portion of the surface plant with spectators in the foreground. United Coal Mine, Old East Mine, Christopher, Illinois July 27, 1915 Coal mine explosion killed 9 miners. Picture No. 13 Curve in the tipple track, where the trip jumped, and the location of the wrecked trip in foreground. Patterson No. 2, United Coal Company, Elizabeth, Pennsylvania July 30, 1915 Coal mine haulage accident killed 9 miners. Picture No. 14 Coal washery with tipple at extreme right. Panama No. 1 Mine, Panama, Illinois April 5, 1915 Coal mine explosion killed 11 miners. Picture No. 15 Stag Canon No 1 & 6 Mines, Dawson, New Mexico April 14, 1920 Coal mine explosion killed 5 miners. Picture No. 16 Surface plant. Marvel (Roden Mine), Marvel, Alabama October 22, 1916 Coal mine explosion killed 18 miners. Picture No. 17 Federal No. 3 Mine, Everetteville, West Virginia April 30, 1927 Coal mine explosion killed 97 miners. Picture No. 18 Woodward No. 3 Shaft, Woodward Colliery, Glen Alden Coal Co., Edwardsville, Pennsylvania May 26, 1927 Coal mine explosion killed 7 miners. Picture No. 19 Tipple, supply room and blacksmith shop, top of hoist room and boiler room, fan house, wash house (behind fan house). Sunday Creek Coal Co., Millfield, Ohio November 5, 1930 Coal mine explosion killed 82 miners. Picture No. 20 Headframe and ore bin with flame from burning shaft. Fire at the Delmont Ore Mine, Tonopah, Nevada October 31, 1939 Picture No. 21 Headframe at the Sherwood mine, Inland Steel Co,, Iron River, Michagin December, 1944 Picture No.22 General view of tipple and cleaning plant at Velva open-cut mine. Truax-Traer Coal Company, Velva Mine, Velva, North Dakota January 18, 1945 Picture No. 23 Headframe, conveyor shed, and loading bin. Sunday Lake Mine, Pickands, Mather & Company, Wakefield, Michigan February, 1945 Picture No. 24 Headframe and shop building. Newport Mine, Pickands, Mather & Company, Ironwood, Michigan February, 1945 Picture No. 25 Crushing and screening plant, showing inclines from A & B shafts. Cliffs Shaft Mine, Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company, Ishpeming, Michigan March, 1945 Picture No. 26 Surface plant. Swan Creek Mine, Swan Creek Coal Co., St. Charles, Michigan April, 1945 Picture No. 27 Headframe and shaft house. Geneva-Davis Mine, Oliver Iron Mining Co., Gogebic District, Ironwood, Michigan August, 1945 Picture No. 28 Headframe No. 3 shaft. Zenith Mine, Pickands, Mather & Co., Ely, Minnesota September, 1945 Picture No. 29 Headframe, surface buildings and stock pile. Armour No. 1 Mine, Inland Steel Co., Ironton, Minnesota September, 1945 Picture No. 30 Headframe and washing plant building. Webb Mine, Snyder Mining Company, Chisholm, Minnesota October, 1945 Picture No. 31 Shaft house and surface plant. Cottingham (Fox) Mine, Benton, Wisconsin March, 1946 Picture No. 32 Shaft house and rock dump. Andrews Mine, Cuba Mining Co., Shullsburg, Wisconsin March, 1946 |
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