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.)
Mine Preparation Plant
Mine Shop
Nemacolin Mine of Buckeye Coal Co. 1950
the Slate Dump
"At mile 76.5 on the Monongahela River is a small man-made mountain. It is comprised of debris from the former deep coal mine - Buckeye Coal Company. This is the 187-acre refuse pile located near the village of Nemacolin in Greene County, Pennsylvania. The pile was also the site of a former coal preparation facility with a slurry pond. Here coal was washed before being sent on to market. Water percolating through the pile material causes an acidic mine pollution to seep from the pile's base. To keep this polluted water from entering the Monongahela, some 300,000 gallons are collected and treated daily. A portion of the pile has been on fire for years as it burns residual coal. The fire causes air pollution and destabilizes the pile's steep banks. Portions of the Nemacolin pile are relatively rich in residual coal, especially the slurry ponds. Reclaiming this pile while harvesting the residual coal is a realistic possibility. The sheer size of the pile suggests this would take years."
Larry Grayson Crew 1978-1980
Tipple at Nemacolin mine
Gibraltar on the Monongahela
Old Dispatcher's Underground Office at Nemacolin Mine
