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ASHLEY – The new owners of an anthracite coal breaker in Luzerne County said they plan to dismantle the historic structure and selling hundreds of tons of steel for scrap. An attorney for Paselo ...
The future of a piece of coal mining history is in question. That's because workers are dismantling parts of the St. Nicholas coal breaker near Mahanoy City. It's unclear if part or all of the ...
DURYEA – Police charged a Dalton man with arson in connection with a Tuesday fire that damaged an abandoned coal breaker in Duryea.Zachary Sorak, 20, was arraigned Wednesday on felony counts of ...
From there the coal cars were moved by locomotive to the Old Forge breaker. Records show more than 5,260,855 tons of coal was mined at Sibley between 1873 and 1916. In 1901, 496 workers were ...