The function of a coal breaker is to break coal into pieces and sort them into categories of nearly uniform size The second function is to remove as many impurities as economically desirable and feasible Then the coal was graded based on the percent of impurities remaining The breaker boys would work a labor intensive 10 hours a day, 6 days ....
The St Nicholas Breaker was located between Mahanoy City and Shenandoah in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, in the southern part of the Coal Region The breaker was once the world s largest coal breaker, being the size of a city block and capable of processing 12,500 tons of coal per day It has been described as having a hulking, asymmetrical facade...
THE BOYS IN THE BREAKERS One of our superintendents said that the boys in the anthracite coal fields graduate from the breakers and the min It is appropriate then to add the breaker as a school where our boys are trained Letourneau said that the Targui women knew how to read and write in greater numbers than the men...
A coal breaker is the coal preparation plant Thus said, it should be noted that all collieries did not have coal breakers, but all coal breakers were associated with one or more collieri Not every single mine opening had its own breaker and not all breakers had washeries to clean the coal...
Jan 02, 2014 0183 32 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...
