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Good question - I don’t have the knowledge of geology to answer; hopefully
someone does?

Dave Phelps

On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 11:52 AM NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List <
nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:

> On a further tangent, would these pockets of Anthracite have been
> (geologically) part of the same deposits found in northeastern PA? Both
> fields are on the eastern edge of the ridge and valley section of the
> Appalachians - so it seems plausible.
>
> A quick Wikipedia dive doesn’t confirm or deny this, other than brushing
> on various folding events along that margin - a process that creates the
> pressure needed to form anthracite.
>
> Matt Goodman
> Columbus, Ohio, US
>
>
> On Apr 4, 2020, at 11:24 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Apr 4, 2020, at 10:42 PM Frank wrote:
>
> Digging this up also led me to another fact.  The reasons for the VAC and
>> the camelback were a pocket of anthracite coal in Southwestern Virginia.
>> (Anthracite?).  There were at least two anthracite mines on the Virginian,
>> and at least one on the N&W.  On CoalCampUSA if you find Raleigh County,
>> Virginia, there's a picture of an anthracite breaker that, to my eye, looks
>> like it belongs in Eastern Pennsylvania.
>>
>
> The anthracite coal in Southwest Virginia is in Montgomery County and
> Pulaski County and there were multiple mines in both counties. It outcrops
> in Price Mountain south of Blacksburg and Brush Mountain north of
> Blacksburg, and Little Walker Mountain north of Pulaski. Merrimac Mine
> (which is why the Virginia Anthracite Coal & Railway Co. came into
> existence) is the most well-known. Big Vein was a mine in McCoy while there
> was another large mine across the river in Parrott. The Altoona Mine was
> north of Pulaski, served by a branch line that ran from downtown to the
> mine.
>
> Bruce in Blacksburg
>
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Regards, Dave
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