Reports of the Inspectors of Mines of the anthracite coal regions of ...

INSPECTORS OF MINES. 5T
To consider the immense amount of waste coal that is handled and destroj^ed
in preparing our anthracite coal for market it must prove a great
loss in the item of domestic fuel, for not less than one-third of the whole
product of the mines is a total loss, or say $454,819,378 worth of fuel has.
been wasted, while the bituminous coals of Great Britain can be all utilized.
Our very best anthracite coal is wasted by the system of its preparation.
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