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Mine Scenery / Strippings 2 - Tresckow - Eckleysfp2/2/2004 |
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| A water filled old strip mine at the top of the Spring Mountain ridge on the country road between Beaver Meadows and St. Matthew's Church in Quakake Valley. The old strip mines fill to the level of the water table. They're good for unsupervised swimming. They're also deep, steep and dangerous. April 2002. | A long strip mine east of McAdoo, PA on the road to Tresckow. This coalhole is bisected narrowly by the Tresckow Road. These are old works and it is apparent that reforestation is in full swing. Note the 60 to 70 degree slope of the coal vein as indicated by the sheer, slanting face of the bottom rock in the right background. The bottom rock is the geological strata underlying the coal seam. August, 2003. |
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| A filled in (mostly) strip mine south of Eckley, PA off the road to Buck Mountain. Filling is done courtesy of the US Taxpayer. It was never the duty of the coal barons. |
Directly across the Buck Mountain road from the location shown in the left hand picture is an old, reforesting, sheer sided, partially water filled stripping. Here in January 2004 the water has turned to ice, plainly indicated by the bluish white color fifty feet down. Patches of white snow appear on the sharply angled bottom rock face at right. Not obvious on this photo is a noisy small stream at lower left tumbling down the northern rock face to contribute to the deep pool below. This is not a place to veer off the road on a dark night! |