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Ponded water near the spoil tip from a coal mine west of Murray City on Ohio State Route 78 in Hocking County, Ohio. The color is an effect of acid mine drainage. The image was made in 1970.
Freeport (No. 7) coal at the Todd Mine near Lake Hope in Vinton County, Ohio. The image was made by Michael C. Hansen in 1971.
Coal strings on sandstone near Ohio State Route 7 in Yellow Creek Township, Columbiana County, Ohio. The image was taken in June 24, 1969.
A Heliminer coal mining machine in a subsurface coal mine operated by the Y & O Coal Company near St. Clairsville, Belmont County, Ohio. The image was made by Michael C. Hansen in July, 1977. The location is approximate to the township.
The Ohio Power Company's visitors center along Ohio State Route 83, south of Cumberland, Guernsey County, Ohio. Passenger cars were brought in by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway/Baltimore and Ohio Railroad for press and other guests during the formal opening of the Muskingum Electric Railroad in May 1969. The dedication event for the Big Muskie, Muskingum Electric Railroad, and the service center was held on May 22, 1969, but public events continued throughout the week afterward. The visitors center was named Prentice. Shown is the 1920 Baldwin 0-6-0 No. 3 engine kept at the visitors center. Ohio State Geologist Horace R. Collins visited the area being mined by the Big Muskie dragline with Russian geologist Petr...
Russian geologist Petr Petrovich Timofeev (Timofeyev) with Horace R. Collins, Ohio State Geologist, looking into the cab of the Baltimore 0-6-0 at the Ohio Power Company's visitors center along Ohio State Route 83, south of Cumberland, Guernsey County, Ohio. Passenger cars were brought in by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway/Baltimore and Ohio Railroad for press and other guests during the formal opening of the Muskingum Electric Railroad in May 1969. The dedication event for the Big Muskie, Muskingum Electric Railroad, and the service center was held on May 22, 1969, but public events continued throughout the week afterward. The visitors center was named Prentice. A 1920 Baldwin 0-6-0 No. 3 engine was kept at the...
The Big Muskie was a coal mining Bucyrus-Erie dragline owned and operated by the Central Ohio Coal Company. Big Muskie was powered by electricity supplied by a trailing cable. This image shows the coiling unit transporter for the cable. The Big Muskie was officially dedicated during a ceremony on May 22, 1969. This picture was taken on May 24, 1969, during the opening week of public tours. The location given is approximate to the Central Ohio Coal Company's mining area south of Renrock, but in northern Morgan County as per location given in
Horace R. Collins hosting members of the Pechiney company for a field trip to the Waterloo Coal Company's Oak Hill operation in Jackson County, Ohio. The image was taken May 29, 1967. The location is approximate to the township.
A miner in a subsurface Jensie Coal Mine on September 22, 1967. The location given is approximate to the center of the township.
Big Muskie dragline removing overburden at a coal strip mine operation in Muskingum County, Ohio. The image was taken by Michael C. Hansen in March 1975. Big Muskie was dedicated on May 22, 1969, at a ceremony held in northern Morgan County near Renrock, Ohio. At the time, it was described as the world's largest mobile land machine and the biggest walking dragline ever built. It could remove 325 tons of earth and rock a minute. Big Muskie was operated by the Ohio Power Company and its parent firm American Electric Power Company. It operated in Ohio from 1969 to 1991.
Big Muskie dragline removing overburden at a coal strip mine operation in Muskingum County, Ohio. The image was taken by Michael C. Hansen in March 1978. Big Muskie was dedicated on May 22, 1969, at a ceremony held in northern Morgan County near Renrock, Ohio. At the time, it was described as the world's largest mobile land machine and the biggest walking dragline ever built. It could remove 325 tons of earth and rock a minute. Big Muskie was operated by the Ohio Power Company and its parent firm American Electric Power Company. It operated in Ohio from 1969 to 1991.
The Silver Spade power shovel removing overburden in coal strip mine in Harrison County, Ohio. Location approximate to township.
A view of land reclaimed from surface mining operation in Scipio Township, Meigs County, Ohio. This image received fourth place in the 1982 Ohio Geology Slide Contest.
The highwall in a strip mine in Ross Township, Jefferson County, Ohio. The mine was visited as part of the coal sampling program. The image was made in September 1980.
The coal bed in a strip mine near Cadiz, Harrison County, Ohio. The mine was visited as part of the coal sampling program. The image was made circa 1979 to the early 1980s. The location approximate to the township.
The Waterloo Coal Company strip mining operation in Jackson County, Ohio. The image was taken during a teachers workshop field trip in July 1995.
The Waterloo Coal Company strip mining operation in Jackson County, Ohio. The image was taken during a teachers workshop field trip.
The Celotex Company gypsum mine at Gypsum in Portage Township, Ottawa County, Ohio. Commercial gypsum production in Ohio is from the F unit of the Salina Group where the gypsum occurs as nodules, lenses, and massive beds. Bedrock is from the Silurian Geologic Period. The image was taken in 1952 probably by John H. Melvin.
A conveyor belt carrying salt inside the Morton Salt, Inc., operation. The Morton Salt, Inc., facilities are at Fairport Harbor on the Grand River in Lake County, Ohio. Ohio's rock-salt deposits are confined to the Salina Group of the Silurian Geologic Period. The F unit of the Salina Group is the principal salt-bearing unit in Ohio and is further subdivided into four units. The F1 unit is mined at Fairport Harbor by Morton Salt, Inc. The underground mine is operated on a room and pillar system that leaves central pillars of salt to hold up the structure. The image was taken by Ralph J. Berhagen in 1961.
Undercutting machine at the working face of a salt wall inside the International Salt Company's mine operation site at Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. The darker veins are anhydrite. Ohio's rock-salt deposits are confined to the Salina Group of the Silurian Geologic Period. The F unit of the Salina Group is the principal salt-bearing unit in Ohio and is further subdivided into four units. The F2 unit is mined by the International Salt Company at the Cleveland Mine. The underground mine is operated on a room and pillar system that leaves central pillars of salt to hold up the structure. The image was made by Michael C. Hansen in 1985.
map background search result map search result map Muskingum Electric Railroad Visitors Center in Guernsey County, Ohio, 1969 Muskingum Electric Railroad Visitors Center in Guernsey County, Ohio, 1969 Big Muskie in Morgan County, Ohio, 1969 Industrial Minerals in Jackson County, Ohio, 1967 Industrial Minerals in Jefferson County, Ohio, 1967 Industrial Minerals in Columbiana County, Ohio, 1969 Industrial Minerals in Muskingum County, Ohio, 1975 Industrial Minerals in Muskingum County, Ohio, 1978 Industrial Minerals in Harrison County, Ohio Industrial Minerals in Hocking County, Ohio, 1970 Industrial Minerals in Meigs County, Ohio, 1982 Industrial Minerals in Vinton County, Ohio, 1971 Industrial Minerals in Belmont County, Ohio, 1977 Industrial Minerals in Jefferson County, Ohio, 1980 Industrial Minerals in Harrison County, Ohio Industrial Minerals in Jackson County, Ohio, 1995 Industrial Minerals in Jackson County, Ohio Morton Salt Operations at Fairport Harbor, Lake County, Ohio, 1961 International Salt Company Mine at Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, 1985 The Celotex Company in Ottawa County, Ohio, 1952