1973 THE GEM OF EGYPT HANNA COAL CONSOL STRIP MINING OHIO VALLEY SMITHSONIAN MAG

Description: 1973 THE GEM OF EGYPT HANNA COAL CONSOL STRIP MINING OHIO VALLEY SMITHSONIAN MAG Click images to enlarge Description The February 1973 issue of Smithsonian magazine ran a dramatic shot of “The GEM of Egypt” in operation in the Egypt Valley of Ohio, just north of I-70, as the magazine featured a story on “the need for energy vs. strip mining.” Note size of the shovel’s bucket relative to the vehicles on the road below. Photo, Arthur Sirdofsky. There were three of the giant machines at issue: The Tiger, The Mountaineer, and The GEM of Egypt. All three were then in the service of the Hanna Coal Company, which by 1970, had been strip mining in Ohio for decades and was then a division of the much larger Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company, later known as “Consol,” itself then owned by Continental Oil. More on Hanna/Consol and the big machines in a moment, first some background on Ohio’s coal. “Giant Shovel on I-70” Ohio Strip Mine Fight: 1973 Colossal earth-moving machines became symbols in the 1960s-1970s environmental battles over surface coal mining, also known as “strip mining.” These machines – some capable of scooping two-to-three Greyhound bus-size equivalents of earth with each bite – laid waste to tens of thousands of acres as they uncovered near-surface coal to feed electric power plants. In 1972-73, a trio of these machines, then chewing through southeastern Ohio, became involved in a controversial proposal: to cross, and temporarily shut down, a major interstate highway to get to the coal on the other side. The event became a symbolic and actual “line-in-the-sand” confrontation between those opposed to strip mining and those who saw it as vital for energy, jobs, and local economies. 1973 FEBRUARY SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE, THERE ARE ALSO MANY OTHER INTERESTING ARTICLES, PHOTOGRAPHS AND ADS IN THIS MAGAZINE... THIS MAGAZINE HAS 88 PAGES. THIS MAGAZINE IS COMPLETE, CLEAN AND IN VERY GOOD + + NEAR FINE CONDITION..... PLEASE SEE PICTURES PLEASE VIEW MY OTHER EBAY LISTINGS..... Pictures sell! Auctiva offers Free Image Hosting and Editing.300+ Listing Templates! Auctiva gets you noticed! The complete eBay Selling Solution. Track Page Views WithAuctiva's Counter

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Location: Martins Ferry, Ohio

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