1968

1968
District 1
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Operation Name	Number	Type	Opening	District	City	County	Company Name	Railroad Shipments (tons)	Railroad to Mine	Truck Shipments (tons)	Total Production (tons)	Days Worked	Employees	Notes
Airport		Stripping		1	Wilkes-Barre	Lackawanna	Gasperini Construction Co.	2		160	251	0	0	Coal prepared at Ace Breaker and O'Toole Cleaning Plant. Construction grading at airport.
Baltimore	135-2	Stripping		1	Wilkes-Barre	Luzerne	Glen Nan Coal Co., Inc.	2,773		4,660	8,320	63	0	Coal prepared at Glen Lyon Breaker. Workmen transferred to other operations at same company.
Baltimore	16-2R4	Stripping		1	Wilkes-Barre	Luzerne	Lehigh Valley Anthracite, Inc.	58,552		52,897	143,262	359	72	Coal prepared at Harry E. Breaker.
Birdseye	78-8	Stripping		1	Throop¹	Lackawanna	C. & S. Excavating Co.	4,863		6,124	22,516	280	8	Coal prepared at Raymond Breaker.
Bliss	35-3A2	Stripping		1	Mildred	Sullivan	Bliss Coal Co.	0	Truck¹	35,324	35,324	298	9	All coal prepared at Bliss Crushing Plant.
Bliss		Crushing Plant		1	Mildred	Sullivan	Bliss Coal Co.	0		0	0	298	2
Bliss	30-45	Stripping		1	Hanover Twp.¹	Luzerne	Blue Coal Corporation	899		516	2,316	27	0	Coal prepared at Huber Breaker.
Booth	10-1R4	Stripping		1		Sullivan	E. & B. Coal Sales	0		0	1,835	170	2
Booth		Cleaning Plant		1		Sullivan	E. & B. Coal Sales	0		0	0	72	2
Carbondale	No. 1	Cleaning Plant		1	Carbondale	Lackawanna	Carbondale Coal Co.	0		0	0	132	5
Carbondale	No. 2	Cleaning Plant		1	Carbondale	Lackawanna	Carbondale Coal Co.	0		0	0	244	7
Carbondale Mine Fire	64-1R5	Stripping		1	Carbondale	Lackawanna	Carbondale Coal Co.	47,568		59,624	219,247	306	116	Coal prepared at Huber, Taylor and Raymond breakers.
Cedar Ave Mine Fire		Cut		1	Scranton	Lackawanna	Coalbrook Sales Co., Inc.	3,879		12,270	23,295	0	0	Coal prepared at Ace Breaker. All coal purchased by U.S. Government.
Eddy Creek	64-R2	Stripping		1	Olyphant¹	Lackawanna	Carbondale Coal Co.	2,539		3,198	11,758	96	0	Coal prepared at Huber, Taylor and Raymond breakers.
Edgerton	81-6R	Stripping		1	Archbald	Lackawanna	Northwest Mining Co., Inc.	7,422		9,345	34,359	215	7	Coal prepared at Raymond Breaker.
Grassy Island	78-7	Stripping		1	Olyphant¹	Lackawanna	C. & S. Excavating Co.	115		145	532	22	0	Coal prepared at Raymond Breaker.
Gravity	81-3R4	Stripping		1	Archbald	Lackawanna	Northwest Mining Co., Inc.	3,666		4,617	16,973	304	10	Coal prepared at Raymond Breaker.
Greenfield Road	81-8	Stripping		1		Lackawanna	Northwest Mining Co., Inc.	0		0	0	11	5	New operation. No coal produced during 1968.
Huber	30-49A3	Stripping		1	Ashley	Luzerne	Blue Coal Corporation	10,204		5,860	26,319	216	8	Coal prepared at Huber Breaker.
Huber	30-40A5	Stripping		1	Ashley	Luzerne	Blue Coal Corporation	1,692		972	4,366	145	8	Coal prepared at Huber Breaker.
Loree	30-51	Stripping		1	Larksville	Luzerne	Blue Coal Corporation	12,764		5,055	35,270	268	16	Coal prepared at Loree and Huber breakers.
Middle Road	30-52A	Stripping		1		Luzerne	Blue Coal Corporation	17,079		9,809	44,069	273	10	Coal prepared at Huber Breaker.
Ontario	21-1R5	Stripping		1	Peckville¹	Lackawanna	Pasternak Bros.	3,305		4,163	15,304	295	5	Coal prepared at Ace, Pompey, Kassa and Penbrook breakers.
Powderly	81-1R4	Stripping		1	Carbondale	Lackawanna	Northwest Mining Co., Inc.	579		729	2,679	113	4	Coal prepared at Raymond Breaker.
Powderly	81-7	Stripping		1	Carbondale	Lackawanna	Northwest Mining Co., Inc.	0		0	0	6	2	New operation. No coal produced during 1968.
Spruce St.		Bank		1	Scranton	Lackawanna	Penna. Dept of Highways	2,917		1,062	6,392	20	7	Coal prepared at Taylor and Ace breakers. All coal purchased by Pennsylvania Department of Highways.
Sugar Notch	30-48	Stripping		1	Sugar Notch¹	Luzerne	Blue Coal Corporation	35,038		20,124	90,390	280	12	Coal prepared at Huber Breaker.
Sugar Notch	30-55	Stripping		1	Sugar Notch¹	Luzerne	Blue Coal Corporation	857		492	2,213	39	0	Coal prepared at Huber Breaker.
Sugar Notch	30-50	Stripping		1	Sugar Notch¹	Luzerne	Blue Coal Corporation	2,591		1,488	6,686	280	5	Coal prepared at Huber Breaker.
Sugar Notch	30-53	Stripping		1	Sugar Notch¹	Luzerne	Blue Coal Corporation	1,143		656	2,950	96	0	Coal prepared at Huber Breaker.
Throop Mine Fire		Cut		1	Throop¹	Lackawanna	Empire Contracting Co.	3		222	278	0	0	Coal prepared at Ace Breaker.
Truesdale	No. 214 (30-38R2)	Stripping	Slope	1	Hanover Twp.¹	Luzerne	Blue Coal Corporation	1,932		1,109	4,984	75	0	Coal prepared at Huber Breaker.
Truesdale	No. 214 (30-54A)	Stripping	Slope	1	Hanover Twp.¹	Luzerne	Blue Coal Corporation	6,235		3,581	16,087	193	9	Coal prepared at Huber Breaker.
Truesdale	30-43A	Stripping		1	Hanover Twp.¹	Luzerne	Blue Coal Corporation	2,400		1,379	6,189	45	0	Coal prepared at Huber Breaker.
Twin	135-1	Stripping		1	Pittston	Luzerne	Glen Nan Coal Co., Inc.	2,052		3,316	5,855	56	0	Coal prepared at Glen Lyon Breaker. Workmen transferred to other operations at same company.
Wanamie	30-23R4	Stripping		1	Wanamie¹	Luzerne	Blue Coal Corporation	13,518		7,764	34,872	254	12	Coal prepared at Huber Breaker.
Wanamie	30-17	Stripping		1	Wanamie¹	Luzerne	Blue Coal Corporation	3,644		1,950	9,212	0	0	Stock coal mined in 1965. Prepared at Huber Breaker.
Wanamie	30-21R3	Stripping		1	Wanamie¹	Luzerne	Blue Coal Corporation	18,817		807	48,554	270	11	Coal prepared at Huber Breaker.
Wanamie	30-6R5	Stripping		1	Wanamie¹	Luzerne	Blue Coal Corporation	645		371	1,666	39	4	Coal prepared at Huber Breaker.
Wanamie	30-56	Stripping		1	Wanamie¹	Luzerne	Blue Coal Corporation	6,283		3,609	16,215	117	15	Coal prepared at Huber Breaker.
Wanamie	30-47A3	Stripping		1	Wanamie¹	Luzerne	Blue Coal Corporation	71,158		40,870	183,591	290	42	Coal prepared at Huber Breaker.
William A.	6-2R4	Stripping		1	Duryea	Luzerne	Scranton Excavating Co.	240		302	1,109	24	7	Coal prepared at Harry E. and Taylor breakers.

Note 1: Added, does not appear in the mine inspection report.