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Coal and the Coal Mines

by Homer Greene

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  1. 1Dedication
  2. 2Preface
  3. 3Chapter I — In the Beginning
  4. 4Chapter II — The Composition of Coal
  5. 5Chapter III — When Coal was Formed
  6. 6Chapter IV — How the Coal Beds Lie
  7. 7Chapter V — The Discovery of Coal
  8. 8Chapter VI — The Introduction of Coal into Use
  9. 9Chapter VII — The Way into the Mines
  10. 10Chapter VIII — A Plan of a Coal Mine
  11. 11Chapter IX — The Miner at Work
  12. 12Chapter X — When the Mine Roof Falls
  13. 13Chapter XI — Air and Water in the Mines
  14. 14Chapter XII — The Dangerous Gases
  15. 15Chapter XIII — The Anthracite Coal Breaker
  16. 16Chapter XIV — In the Bituminous Coal Mines
  17. 17Chapter XV — The Boy Workers at the Mines
  18. 18Chapter XVI — Miners and their Wages
  19. 19Glossary of Mining Terms

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