What Is a Tipple?

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Post by Chris Murley » Sat. Jan. 24, 2009 9:13 pm

a tipple is where the mine cars or gunboat would be hoisted up out of the mine and dumped into rr cars, trucks, or in our case on the ground. we then load it with a front end loader into triaxle trucks. theres still about a dozen active underground anthracite mines in pa however the bulk of anthracite comes from the strippins. heres a pic of our mine where 6 of us are mining 3 veins of anthracite, the 7 foot, the skidmore and the mammoth bottom split.

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