ANTHRACITE COAL MINES AND MINING. | eHISTORY
ANTHRACITE COAL MINES AND MINING. BY ROSAMOND D. RHONE. ... and the tools are of the rudest. They are pick and shovel, bar, hand and machine drills,—the latter an auger, turned by a crank,—and powder and squibs. The coal is loosened or "cut " from the face by blasting; the pick is only used to knock down loosened pieces from the roof and ...