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Aerial views of coal mining & coal moving via rail

Aerial views of coal mining & coal moving via rail

(L) Image – Aerial view of Alpha Natural Resources Deep Mine #41’s coal processing facility. The coal is mined underground, moved out via conveyor and then taken to the top of the hills in the background. From there it moves slowly downhill as it’s processed, finally ending in the pile.(R) image- overview of one of 5 daily 200 rail car trains leaving Deep Mine 41.

A coal miner holding a handful of freshly processed coal.

Map of an Alpha Natural Resources mining area.

Bradley Clevinger, Rogers Salyers and Johnny Osborn.

Caterpillar 785B loader rumbling through the Virginia landscape.

An Alpha Natural Resources miner stands atop a mining machine.

An Alpha Natural Resources miner with his Caterpillar D10.

Alpha Natural Resources Miner with his Caterpillar 998H Loader

Coal miner Mr. Teddy Clevinger with his Caterpillar 785B Loader

Alpha Natural Resources miner Rogers Salyers @ the loading area

Aerial views of coal mining & coal moving via rail

Aerial view of a reclaimed mining site, SW VA.

Unloading shed @ Dominion Power’s Halifax generating station.

DTA coal washing station.

Coal being unloaded and sent to the furnaces

Anthony Farrior of Dominion Power & his Caterpillar D11.

The 'skeloton & circulatory system' of a power station

(R) – Mark Fisher’s heat mask allows him to look inside.

Inside Dominion Power’s Halifax generating station.

Dominion Power’s Halifax, VA coal power generating station.