Nemacolin Mine of the Buckeye Coal Company

On the west bank of the Monongahela river, about 80 miles from Pittsburgh, the Buckeye Coal Company, the fuel producing organization of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., is developing 800 acres of the Pittsburgh seam of by-product coking coal.

The mine is located three miles from the historic town of Carmichaels and is one of the first mines to be developed in the Greene county field, the largest undeveloped block of Pittsburgh coal in existence. The Company secured a preferred location as the Monongahela river offers unlimited opportunities for transportation and the railroad is being extended from Crucible to Nemacolin.

(March 1920; P. 128; Nemacolin Mine of the Buckeye Coal Co.; One of the Most Modern Mines in Western Pennsylvania Being Developed in the Largest Undeveloped Field of Pittsburgh Coal in Existence-An Example of Mining and Mechanical Engineering; By J. O. DURKEE.)

Coal - Nemacolin Mine of Buckeye Coal Co.
The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers
A. W. Hesse
Organization: The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers
Pages: 20
Publication Date: Jan 1, 1927
Abstract
The trend of American construction toward permanence and longevity is noticeable in the more recent coal plant installations; also, the policy of many coal operators has changed from seeking to obtain the desired tonnage from several plants of small capacities to designing a single installation to produce the whole amount. The mine openings and plant of the Nemacolin mine of The Buckeye Coal Co., are located on the Greene County side of the Monongahela River, 73 miles south of Pittsburgh.
The map (Fig. 1) shows the general location, also the Lambert syncline. This syncline partly accounts for the selection of the site; the other reasons were the possibilities of rail and river shipments. Two shafts and a slope were sunk to the coal, work starting on all three in the second half of the year 1917. The air shaft was sunk to a depth of 243 ft. and completed in February, 1918; the slope was completed in November, and the skip shaft was stopped at a depth of 21 ft. below the coal, then the concrete lining was stopped 8 ft. above the coal August, 1918. Work on the skip shaft was resumed May, 1923, and sunk to a depth of 60 ft. below the coal by September, but it was not until May, 1924, that the lining was poured.

The surface plan shows the relative positions of the openings. Coal was first hoisted from the air shaft May 7, 1918, and entry driving was continued; but the coal had to be stored, as the railroad had not been extended from Crucible to Nemacolin. As soon as the slope was driven to the coal and the linings concreted, the entries were driven along projected lines to connect with those advancing from the air shaft, and skip shaft. As soon as the underground connections had been made between the two shafts, the hoisting by buckets was inaugurated at the skip shaft and construction on the fan at the air shaft started.

Citation APA: A. W. Hesse (1927) Coal - Nemacolin Mine of Buckeye Coal Co.
MLA: A. W. Hesse Coal - Nemacolin Mine of Buckeye Coal Co.. The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, 1927.

Mine Preparation Plant

Mine Shop

Nemacolin Mine of Buckeye Coal Co. 1950

the Slate Dump

Larry Grayson Crew 1978-1980

Tipple at Nemacolin mine

Gibraltar on the Monongahela

Old Dispatcher's Underground Office at Nemacolin Mine

Coal leaving slope portal

1930 Nemacolin Miners Census