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Thanks for explaining all this My dad was a certified miner before he bought his truck and started delivering to houses and businesses He had a nickname of SIX CAR EDDIE He only briefly told stories about mining and never got into details like you guys He did say that the South Wilkes Barre mine scared him and only once mined there Back when he was mining he was given a section to mine and no other miner worked it He said the purest coal came out of the Westmorland in West Wyoming

Make a garage and house out of that

I’m from Scranton… what ever became of this project and are there any abandoned or ghost towns near Wilkes Barre Scranton area - somewhere to … ah camp , ya camp I live right on the site of Knox mine disaster , I’m thinking about taking over the old Pittston hospital- it’s got a boiler / generator Vandals got too it last year It was in good condition Vandalism sucks . I’m thinking there should be at least 2 miles underground of 7-10 layer stories of mines that go about 20-30 mines under this place- should be enough space to store some old cars and tap into natural gas for energy. Know if any oil wells or deposits in pa ? I need sweet crude oil for refining purposes Thanks

Would've been nice to see some of the fossils you were noting...

Thank you for the fascinating perspective!! I’m now a little more aware of deep anthracite coal mining!!

Ganz schön schräg.

I am currently doing a research on this. Please how old is this video? Also, I have not seen cuurent data on active coal mine sites in PA. the latest Ive seen is 2022. Do you know of the most curent or where i can get them? Thanks

Superb effort guys 👍

I like the portable hoist house but might be a tad slow for a hi output application

To think that was originally all done with no power tools

I could see working in the hoist shed but that would be about all

I have followed the UGM since 2006 or so, back when, IIRC, the original Iron Miners site appeared. I recall you guys would chase subsidence. Where there pics from the air as well? Chris was/is a pilot and worked as an aircraft mechanic?

I’ve watched a lot of videos of abandoned mines but this actually shows how it all went down. Silly question but where is the water that is coming out of those ore passes coming from?

We loved the tour last Saturday, well done!

Respect💪💪

awesome video, looks like a trip back to the 1920's How many tons of coal do they produce in a day? How deep is the mine?

Incredible to see the draglines working 😍 ⛏️👊🏼

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Loved it!! Something so fascinating about underground mining!!

I wont be complaining about my working conditions for a while. Well done lads

This was great! No goofy music, no silly commentary, just guys showing what it takes to get the job done. Thank You!

a quite excellent upload and im grateful for it, for it shows the conditions that 99% of workmen would run from given the chance. Miners the world over are a special breed of human beings, they have courage by the spadeful and then some.... following link is my modest tribute to miners everywhere regardless of continent, it started as a Modest Mememorial to a Scottish mining disaster, but is dedicated to dg miners everywhere , Hero's all th-cam.com/video/sY_u6O_afGc/w-d-xo.html

Living the dream, Ug mining at his best, My biggest wishes to go back work underground!

Special lil slice of hell right there!

Is this joke been a coal miner for many years… no m20 cans attached to there belts no scscr’s or whatever they use escape breath apparatus around, no formal examination, no life line to escape… MSHA WOULD be right there babysitting this coat hanger abortion before these clowns get killed… or lost RIDICULOUS!!!

From a former bituminous miner in southwest PA, my hard hat goes off to you anthracite boys. Everything about your job is miserable. Only part of my job was.

I was a miner in my youth, but mostly lead, zinc, copper, gold and silver. But I worked for a short time in a coal mine. The film is amazingly good, I worked with the same machines as you. I actually miss the hard but inspired life.

Great to see a 'low tech' pit still operating in the USA. Especially interesting to see how you work in a steep seam, ours is totally flat.

good stuff. Very interesting.

Good old American made muscle there.

Good to see this one working.

No dust masks ? How good in the air ventilation?

I love locomotives, but you guys need to change how you handle equipment, walking over and between a truck bed, and two locomotives to connect up. then stepping over a winch rope under tension. operator of loco. not inside the cab. one mistake could have been tragic, also not a good example to show on a video. just my opinion of being an underground manager for 42 years.

Will you be taking coal out or just opening it for tours

fascinating video. you never get to see it done like this anymore. glad someone got to document it.

soo is this an official mine or one of the, what you would consider "independent"

I’m a bituminous coal miner in Kentucky. Is there any anthracite coal mines near me still in operation. Think it would be interesting to work one

That's "special coal"! Excellent informative video! That operation seems like a great deal of hard work in very confined spaces!!

The numbers of various tools and techniques we have developed to extract semi-spicy rocks from underground is… interesting to say the least.

Great video ⛏️⚒️

I know where this is. I got lost riding and stumbled across it. Turned around and went right away.

This footage is absolutely outstanding! Thank you very much. It brings back sweet memories. In 1992 I came to the Schuylkill area (from Germany) to visit and document the anthracite mines. There were still dozens of active ones. It was just amazing to see the tiny family run operations. One of the miners even invited me to an underground tour. The pit was very similar to the one shown in this video. Wonderful!

Amazing Video. I thought this mine was closed up by UGM about a year ago in a previous video. How deep is this mine?

Brilliant footage! Well worth watching as all of your videos are. So everything now is electric and pneumatically powered when underground? Been through Minersville hundreds of times over the years. Just curious, but where are the other 3 active Anthracite deep slopes located? Anything still left in the Northern Field?

nice vid XD Im happy to see theres mining being done in northumberland.

Pretty cool to see. Thanks for the video.

Great video showing the entire process! What’s that pulley plow contraption called? Never seen that before.

How much is an ore cart of coal worth?

because of rules and regulations that why theres only 4 left

What do you mean 1 of 4 left? I was under the impression there was many of them at one time?.....