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Title

A special report to the Legislature upon the causes, kinds, and amount of waste in mining anthracite. By Franklin Platt. With a chapter on the methods of mining. By John Price Wetherill. Illustrated by 35 figures of mining operations; a plan of an anthracite breaker; and a specimen sheet of the work of the Geological survey in the anthracite coal fields.

Author

Platt, Franklin, 1844-1900.

Publication

Harrisburg, Pub. by the Board of commissioners for the Second geological survey, 1881.

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Additional Authors

• Wetherill, John Price.
• Pennsylvania. Bureau of Topographic and Geologic Survey (2nd)

Description

A2 xiii, 134 A2 p. front. (map) 19 pl. (part fold.) fold. map (in pocket) fold. plan.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Pennsylvania. Geological survey, 2d. Report of progress A2

Subjects

• Anthracite coal > Pennsylvania
• Coal mines and mining > Pennsylvania

Call Number

VHW (Platt, F. Special report to the Legislature upon the causes, kinds, and amount of waste in mining anthracite)

LCCN

06023201

OCLC

3051253

Author

Platt, Franklin, 1844-1900.

Title

A special report to the Legislature upon the causes, kinds, and amount of waste in mining anthracite. By Franklin Platt. With a chapter on the methods of mining. By John Price Wetherill. Illustrated by 35 figures of mining operations; a plan of an anthracite breaker; and a specimen sheet of the work of the Geological survey in the anthracite coal fields.

Imprint

Harrisburg, Pub. by the Board of commissioners for the Second geological survey, 1881.

Series

Pennsylvania. Geological survey, 2d. Report of progress A2

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Added Author

Wetherill, John Price.

Pennsylvania. Bureau of Topographic and Geologic Survey (2nd)

Research Call Number

VHW (Platt, F. Special report to the Legislature upon the causes, kinds, and amount of waste in mining anthracite)