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Coal Township Mining

Some photos of the coal ruins in Coal Township. NOTE: Do Not attempt to locate abandon mines. I have had permission to enter many of these. Also, some photos make it seem like I am deep inside, when it's just camera tricks. **Stay out, stay alive.** To see what these places were like in their hey-day, go to the album called "Old Mining." NOTE: Do Not attempt to locate abandon mines. Stay out, stay alive.
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Mantrips- Here are two of several mantrips that once took miners and visitors of a tour through the Cameron mine.
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Mantrips- Here are two of several mantrips that once took miners and visitors of a tour through the Cameron mine.

  • Cameron Airshaft.
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  • An old "buffalo fan" at the shaft.
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  • A trained miner taking a peak at the entrance.
  • The main gangway of the Cameron Colliery.
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  • In a Shamokin News-Dispatch article dated Dec. 15, 1964, it was reported that a 30-day food supply for 9,000 persons was stored in the mine in conjunction with the Civilian Defense program. A virtual "underground supermarket" stocked to provide medical supplies, food and other essentials has been established "several hundred feet" below the surface in a rock tunnel of then Susquehanna Coal Company's Glen Burn Colliery...
  • ...Around 58,000 pounds of supplies were put there the week before in case of a nuclear attack on the U.S. An additional 29,000 pounds were expected to arrive. The items were packed in sealed containers to protect it from dampness. Glen Burn officials constructed, at their own expense, a special room 1 1/2 miles into the west drift...
  • ...Items in the containers included hard candy, crackers, biscuits, toilet paper and medical kits. There was also 1,100 water containers. Colliery officials said the space needed amounted to 9,621 cubic feet inside what is known as Tunnel 134, which leads off the main haulage to the Number 7 vein. The tunnel was sealed off with a concrete wall. Engineers chose the mine based on the "protection factor." The work was supervised by Joseph Parker, a colliery employee. Superintendent at the time was Michael Farrell.
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  • Mantrips- Here are two of several mantrips that once took miners and visitors of a tour through the Cameron mine.
  • One of these were hauled away in 2013 to the AOAA.
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  • The pump house across from Jack Williams is shown before demolition. Demo took place in 2008.
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