The Deep River Coal Field As A Source Of Power
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The Deep River Coalfield
Author | : James H. Chapman |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2017-07-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1476668981 |
The region along Deep River in central North Carolina once boasted a small but significant coal mining industry that from the early 1800s to the end of the 20th century provided fuel for manufacturing and domestic use. Confronted by natural obstacles and other challenges--including a devastating explosion in 1925 that killed 53 men and boys--entrepreneurs made numerous attempts (some successful, some not) to harness the power of coal in a state still defining itself in a modernizing nation. Iron forges and hearths required ample supplies of coal to meet local demand, and the Deep River deposits provided them when no others existed.
Coal Deposits in the Deep River Field, Chatham, Lee and Moor Counties
Author | : United States. Bureau of Mines |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 41 |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : |
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Coal in Our Veins
Author | : Erin Ann Thomas |
Publisher | : University Press of Colorado |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2013-06-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1457184435 |
In Coal in Our Veins, Erin Thomas employs historical research, autobiography, and journalism to intertwine the history of coal, her ancestors' lives mining coal, and the societal and environmental impacts of the United States' dependency on coal as an energy source. In the first part of her book, she visits Wales, native ground of British coal mining and of her emigrant ancestors. The Thomases' move to the coal region of Utah—where they witnessed the Winter Quarters and Castle Gate mine explosions, two of the worst mining disasters in American history—and the history of coal development in Utah form the second part. Then Thomas investigates coal mining and communities in West Virginia, near her East Coast home, looking at the Sago Mine collapse and more widespread impacts of mining, including population displacement, mountain top removal, coal dust dispersal, and stream pollution, flooding, and decimation. The book's final part moves from Washington D.C.—and an examination of coal, CO2, and national energy policy—back to Utah, for a tour of a coal mine, and a consideration of the Crandall Canyon mine cave-in, back to Wales and the closing of the oldest operating deep mine in the world and then to a look at energy alternatives, especially wind power, in West Virginia and Pennsylvania.