Section of a Long Wall Mine with Jacks Holding Up the Ceiling at the Right and the Mining Machine at the Left Where Teeth Rake Coal Onto a Conveyor Belt 04/1974

Section of a Long Wall Mine with Jacks Holding Up the Ceiling at the Right and the Mining Machine at the Left Where Teeth Rake Coal Onto a Conveyor Belt 04/1974

Original Caption: Section of a Long Wall Mine with Jacks Holding Up the Ceiling at the Right and the Mining Machine at the Left Where Teeth Rake Coal Onto a Conveyor Belt Which Takes the Material Out of the Tunnel for Transport Out of the Mine. Miners Are Illuminated by the Photographer's Lighting. Long Wall Mining Is Relatively New in the U.S. and Is More Costly, But Allows About Twice as Much Coal to Be Taken From a Mine. Virginia-Pocahontas Mine #3 near Richlands Virginia 04/1974 U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 412-DA-13914 Photographer: Corn, Jack, 1929- Subjects: Richlands (Tazewell county, Virginia, United States) inhabited place Environmental Protection Agency Project DOCUMERICA Persistent URL: arcweb.archives.gov/arc/action/ExternalIdSearch?id=556366 Repository: Still Picture Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-S), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD, 20740-6001. For information about ordering reproductions of photographs held by the Still Picture Unit, visit: www.archives.gov/research/order/still-pictures.html Reproductions may be ordered via an independent vendor. NARA maintains a list of vendors at www.archives.gov/research/order/vendors-photos-maps-dc.html Access Restrictions: Unrestricted Use Restrictions: Unrestricted Image by The U.S. National Archives