I stumbled upon this today and found it interesting “U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report # 92-568”
http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1992/0568/report.pdf
The Anthracite Basins of Eastern Pennsylvania
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I dunno,but when I opened the link,all I got was the face page for the report. The rest of the Doc pages where blank ! I'll do a little digging(no Coal Pun intended) and see where the rest of it is. Thanx,Gaw ! This is yet another fine example of what makes this place Rock ! Uh,Black Rocks,that is !
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HB - it took my PC over 3 minutes to open the 80 page 4 megabyte file and only a few seconds to download.Hambden Bob wrote:I dunno,but when I opened the link,all I got was the face page for the report. The rest of the Doc pages where blank ! I'll do a little digging(no Coal Pun intended) and see where the rest of it is. Thanx,Gaw ! This is yet another fine example of what makes this place Rock ! Uh,Black Rocks,that is !
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There goes any hopes of a late in life IT career ! Thanx,Vig !
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Did wait'n work for ya? Don't GIVE UP YETHambden Bob wrote:There goes any hopes of a late in life IT career ! Thanx,Vig !
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It opened for me in about a minute, thanks for posting the link Glen. Very interesting. I saved the file as well.
https://anthracitecoalregion.com/2015/01/09/photographer-of-the-mines-pottsvilles-george-bretz/
https://anthracitecoalregion.com/2015/01/09/photographer-of-the-mines-pottsvilles-george-bretz/