A Pictorial Walk Through
the 20th Century
Collieries, Tipples, Headframes and Plants
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Collieries, Tipples, Headframes and Plants
Glossary of Terms
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colliery. A whole coal mining plant, generally used in connection with anthracite mining but sometimes used to designate the mine, shops, and preparation plant of a bituminous operation.
- A place at which ore, coal, or crushed stone is freed from impurities or dust by washing. Also called wet separation plant.
- A coal preparation plant in which a cleaning process is carried out by wet methods.
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.
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Picture No. 1
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
