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	State's 'bootleg' miners struggling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Monday morning, Dale Russell Reightler, 43, of Donaldson, was killed while mining anthracite in the Buck Mountain Slope Mine in Tremont, not far from Hegins in Schuylkill County.
		According to DEP spokesman Tom Rathbun, they interviewed the six miners who were in the mine at the time of the blast, then took the rest of the day off to attend the funeral for Mr.
		The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration, he said, seems to be trying to regulate "bootleg mining" right out of existence.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/06300/733430-357.stm (1391 words)

	Bootleg mining - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Generally, a bootleg mine (sometimes called a Bootleg Pit) is a small mine dug by a handful of men.
		Bootleg mines in China are very common, as are the fatalities resulting from unregulated mining.
		Bootleg mines cause additional ramifications when fighting mine fires.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bootleg_mining (173 words)

	The Great "Bootleg" Coal Industry
		The total number of trucks hauling bootleg coal from the holes to the consumers is between 3,500 and 5,O00, and from two to three men earn their living on each vehicle.
		Bootleg coal, in fact, is the chief basis of economic life not only in Centralia, which I have mentioned, but to a lesser extent also in Shamokin, Mount Carmel, Shenandoah, Girardville, Mahonoy City, Tremont, and at least a dozen other communities.
		The bootleg towns are preponderantly Catholic; so, feigning concern for the Eighth Commandment, I approached several parish priests, some of whom, I had heard, were accepting church dues in the form of bootleg coal and were using it to heat their churches, parochial schools, and parish houses.
	newdeal.feri.org /nation/na3446.htm (2877 words)

	Citizens Against Strip Mining - Letters & Editorials
		Bootleg mines were small operations done by hand and had little impact on the ecosystem.
		The situation with old bootleg mines and crop pits is not even close to the scale that he frantically describes.
		It is the government's role to ensure that the mining does not impact in a negative way upon the lifestyles and well-being of citizens in close proximity or on others whose health is threatened by the burning of lowgrade coal in electrical generating stations.
	www.c-a-s-m.org /letters.htm (9090 words)

	Pennsylvania Coal Mine History
		If the mine officials thought that he couldn't make the trip up to Ashland, he would be taken to his home for his wife to make him as comfortable as she possibly could for the short remainder of his life.
		Many mines used canaries to detect Carbon Monoxide and not Methane because their heart rate is so high they die or pass-out very quickly before a man could accumulate the gas in his blood stream to any harmful degree.
		The mine inspector must have been so touched by what happened that instead of calling him a boy, he used the words, " young man." Young Cannon's life was very short, for he seems to have graduated from a boy to man in seven short years.
	www.tccweb.org /penncoal.htm (21487 words)

	Legacy of area's coal mining - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
		But the legacies of coal mining are impossible to forget when a dip in the road mysteriously and suddenly appears, the cracks in basement walls become bigger, and an entire house sinks 4 feet into the ground.
		In some cases, the culprits are long-abandoned deep mines; in others, it's the disruptive aftershocks of a contemporary procedure known as longwall mining.
		Environmental reclamation projects are funded, in part, by the mining companies themselves, which pay a federal tax of 15 cents per ton for underground coal and 35 cents per ton for surface coal.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/pittsburghtrib/s_200775.html (1770 words)

	State's 'bootleg' miners struggling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Monday morning, Dale Russell Reightler, 43, of Donaldson, was killed while mining anthracite in the Buck Mountain Slope Mine in Tremont, not far from Hegins in Schuylkill County.
		According to DEP spokesman Tom Rathbun, they interviewed the six miners who were in the mine at the time of the blast, then took the rest of the day off to attend the funeral for Mr.
		The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration, he said, seems to be trying to regulate "bootleg mining" right out of existence.
	post-gazette.com /pg/06300/733430-357.stm (1391 words)

	Coal Mining and Colleries in and around Saint Clair - Part I
		This vein allowed mining at Crow Hollow; by the High German Mine on Mt. Hope; by Miles Haywood and Snyder's mine at Pine Forest and another mine on the gun Club Hill.
		During the 1930's and 40's it was the scene of "bootleg" coal operations.
		Today the open pit mine in Wadesville has expanded so much many of the homes and churches were torn down to mine the coal underneath.
	www.fortunecity.com /victorian/mill/1215/colleries.htm (1513 words)

	Minecountry - AHJ - Bootleg Coal Mining
		The causes for bootlegging and the reasons for it occurring where it did are rooted in long standing traditions of coal mining, the geology and geography of the anthracite region, and the unemployment situation in that area.
		Unlike the broader, flatter, Northern Field, the coal seams of the Southern and Western Middle fields of Schuylkill and Northumberland Counties are steeply pitched and folded.
		Coal mining was really all there was; while in the Northern field about one-fourth of the workers were employed in the anthracite industry When unemployment shot upwards (as it did in the coal industry long before 1929), it was more keenly felt in the Southern and Western Middle fields.
	www.minecountry.com /homeMine/dispart.cfm?id=6 (1148 words)

	List of Coal-mining Links
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		The South Wales Coal Field Collection essentialy an archive of all of the information about coal mining in Glamorgan and surrounding counties.
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	www.coolguitars.com /coalinks.html (828 words)

	Tribute to the Anthracite Miners of Pennsylvania
		My father and grandfathers were involved in mining almost all of their lives, and when not actually working deep inside the mine itself, they were involved in other jobs which were directly related to coal.
		The miners or mine workers who have the disease are supposed to be entitled to a benefits program, but you have to pass several stringent "tests" before you are awarded benefits.
		Historical Coal Mine Disasters in the Anthracite Region - From the U.S. Department of Labor, this chart shows dates, location and name of mine, number of workers killed and the cause of the disaster.
	www.shulersnet.com /coalcracker (1324 words)

	Citizens Against Strip Mining - Documents
		Mining on the northwest portion of the block should be less disruptive, however sea water intrusion into the excavation may be a concern.
		Unsaturated mine workings are known to occur in the vicinity of the power plant in the northwest areas.
		The mine closure marked the end of a long continuous history of underground coal mining in Nova Scotia reaching back to the early 1700s, and the end to coal mining operations by the Cape Breton Development Corporation.
	www.c-a-s-m.org /documents.htm (11975 words)

	Mount Carmel history
		First anthracite coal is shipped to market from Mount Carmel by John Thompson, age 15, who mined a two-horse load from the bed of a stream and sold it to a shoemaker in Sunbury for five dollars.
		Population soars to 15,000, with 15 coal mines in a five-mile radius.
		Born in New York to an unwed Irish immigrant, James Gavin was adopted by the Mount Carmel mining family of Martin and Mary Gavin.
	www.magpage.com /vigolo/p-mtchx.htm (1535 words)

	Immigrants in Coal Country: Activities Overview : Historical Society of Pennsylvania
		By using primary sources (first person, journalistic accounts, drawings and photographs), this activity introduces students to the mining industry, and to the economic and cultural landscape of the colliery and the patch village.
		Students ask critical questions about the interrelationship of labor and ethnicity in the region and how the successive waves of immigrant workers with their own distinct cultural histories and ethnic identifications contributed to and changed the economy, politics, and culture of the region.
		They will consider how mine subsidence, accidents, and disasters affected the workers, their families, and the entire community.Â These factors alsoÂ shaped the environment of the people who lived in the patch villages.
	www.hsp.org /default.aspx?id=141 (420 words)

	Never Yet Melted » Regulation
		Kimberly Strassel talks to coal mine operator Robert E. Murray about the impact on the US economy of carbon caps, and why some big corporations are allying with environmental activists to get them passed.
		If they were careless, too greedy, or merely unlucky, as in the case of three bootleg coal miners near Shepton in the early 1970s, they could wind up buried by a cave-in.
		Marc Brodzic, a native of New Jersey (probably having roots in the Region), has made a documentary titled: Hard Coal: Last of the Bootleg Miners about the near-pending extinction of the last dozen surviving bootleg mining operations.
	neveryetmelted.com /?cat=150 (9008 words)

	Digging in a Dog Hole: Independent Anthracite Mining in the 20th Century : Historical Society of Pennsylvania
		Digging in a Dog Hole: Independent Anthracite Mining in the 20th Century
		Taking a big, though logical, next step, the unemployed miners of the region began to dig small amounts of coal from their own unlicensed mines, called âdog holes,â in remote locations on coal company property.
		Image:Â "A Coal Mine Explosion." William Ralston Balch, The Mines, Miners and Mining Interests of the United States in 1882 (Philadelphia: Mining Industrial Publishing Bureau, 1882).
	www.hsp.org /default.aspx?id=508 (122 words)

	Bootleg Releases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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	extra.muzcatalog.cjb.cc /bootleg/bootleg3.html (197 words)

	Bootleg - Essential Culture: Clemson's Only Alternative Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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	www.bootlegontheweb.com /things/020107things3.html (465 words)

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