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Sep 20 2018 · "The breaker boy of the anthracite coal regions is in a class by himself " wrote a reporter for The Times of Philadelphia on July 28 1902 in a story entitled "Boy Life in the Coal Mines." "In no other part of the world are there found boys at work at so tender an age earning so much or laboring so hard as they do in the great black dust-clouded breakers."
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A breaker boy was a young coal mining worker whose job was to detach impurities from coal. They would separate slate rocks and other debris from coal by hand. These boys were usually between the ages of 8 to 12 but sometimes were as young as 5 or 6. In 1885 Pennsylvania State law required a coal breaker to be at least 12 years old. (2) (3) (5)
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This led to a great deal of waste and eventually coal breakers were built on the surface to separate coal from rock. Young "breaker boys" were used to pick slate and other impurities from the coal which was then crushed and screened to size. The first breaker was built in 1852 at the Diamond Mine near Scranton.
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Until March 15 the St. Nicholas Breaker was the only relic of the historic era of anthracite mining that remained standing. After being shuttered for more than 50 years the old breaker
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Breast In a coal mine a chamber driven in the seam from the gangway for the extraction of coal the face of a working. Butt A conspicuous hill or small mountain with relatively steep slopes or precipitous cliffs often capped with a resistant layer of rock and representing an erosion remnant carved from flat-lying rocks.
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Oct 22 2016 · Culm which is short for culmination is the rock that remained after sorting out the coal in a breaker like the one that used to stand in Highland but separation never was complete.
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The air he breathes is saturated with the coal dust and as a rule the breaker is fiercely hot in summer and intensely cold in winter. In many of the modern breakers to be sure steam heating pipes have been introduced into the screen rooms and fans have been placed in some breakers to carry away the dust.
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The breakers gradually disappeared as anthracite production began a long steady decline after World War I. Invented in the 1840s breakers transformed large hard-to-ignite chunks of raw anthracite into a variety of smaller sizes suitable for smelting iron propelling a locomotive running a machine or heating a
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"Breaker Boys" were used in the anthracite coal mines to separate slate rock from the coal after it had been brought out of the shaft. They often worked 14 to 16 hours a day. Check out historical books and novels by Donna R. Causey
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Meanwhile owners of mine properties are now discovering new profits from processing for electricity their old abandoned "bony piles " black mountains of left-over slate rock and bits of coal from the breaker which for decades have polluted local waters with toxic run-off.
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Jan 02 2014 · Video footage I took of the Blaschak coal breaker in Mahanoy City PA in June 2008. My grandfather worked here for 37 years before he retired in July 1989.
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This led to a great deal of waste and eventually coal breakers were built on the surface to separate coal from rock. Young "breaker boys" were used to pick slate and other impurities from the coal which was then crushed and screened to size. The first breaker was built in 1852 at the Diamond Mine near Scranton.
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In 1954 the breaker remained closed but the Village Slope Coal Co. took over operation of the Rock Slope using it to haul coal. The breaker would remain closed but its coal bins were used as retail pockets to hold the coal for shipping. The coal was transported by rail to the Pompey Waddell and Moosic Mountain breakers for processing.
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Oct 29 2016 · Culm which is short for culmination is the rock that remained after sorting out the coal in a breaker like the one that used to stand in Highland but separation never was complete.
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A breaker boy was a young coal mining worker whose job was to detach impurities from coal. They would separate slate rocks and other debris from coal by hand. These boys were usually between the ages of 8 to 12 but sometimes were as young as 5 or 6. In 1885 Pennsylvania State law required a coal breaker to be at least 12 years old. (2) (3) (5)
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