Original issue price $60.00, we've discounted to $45.00. Unfortunately, we do not have many of these left as the print run is very close to being sold out.
From the dustjacket of Buckets, Flanges & Black Diamonds Mining and Moving Coal in Pennsylvania:
"Coal is removed from the ground by one of two methods - surface or underground. This book offers a brief look at the operation of surface mining through hundreds of color photographs, scenes rarely viewed by the public because of the nature of the business. The surface mine gives a clear picture of men and machines coordinating their efforts with precision and safety, using many types of mining machinery to produce a ton of coal. Equipment in a surface mine ranges in size from a huge 5,000 ton excavator to the pit boss's company pickup truck.
Author George Baumes was able to obtain permission to visit surface mines throughout Pennsylvania. He was also trackside recording mile-long railroad unit coal trains delivering thousands of tons of coal to steel mills and electric plants. He followed commercial highway trucks hauling raw coal from mines to processing plants, and stood on river banks photographing towboats pushing strings of barges loaded with coal. Finally, he he focused his camera on the anthracite region waste coal (culm) project. Once an eye sore, culm banks are being harvested for coal that was once rejected and now is used for fuel for several small power plants with special boilers."
Ships free in the Continental U.S. in a cardboard box.