I have received the following from the USA. Coal mining is not my
thing so can anyone else help?
Michael Messenger
I'm an American citizen of Welsh and Irish decent, and my family is
deeply intertwined with coal mining, both in Wales and the coal
fields of Scranton, PA. I am trying to track down anybody who has
good, archeological knowledge of coal mining in
mid-nineteenth-century Wales (specifically 1830-40). It has been an
arduous, and thus far, unsuccessful attempt to find out some
fundamental facts about coal mining/processing practices during this
pre-steam era.
I think I've been able to get a fairly clear picture of mining
practices themselves during this period, but I'm at a loss to
discover anything about the methods of processing coal once it was
brought above ground. For instance, how coal was broken up and
sized, before the advent of steam-powered tipples and the building of
breakers, remains a mystery to me.
Do you know if any of the members of the Mining History Network could
help me answer questions of this nature?
Sincerely,
Mac McDermott
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