Bituminous coal deposit - Thurber Texas
N 32° 30.478 W 098° 24.961
14S E 554854 N 3596892
The largest Bituminous coal mine in Texas, is located beneath Thurber, Texas.
Waymark Code: WM8NE2
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 04/23/2010
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Thurber is a coal-mining ghost town in Erath County, Texas, United States, located 75 miles west of Fort Worth. It currently has an overall population of about twenty five.
Coal mining operations began in Thurber in 1886 and reached a peak around 1918-1920, with a population of approximately 8,000 to 10,000. At the peak, Thurber was one of the largest bituminous coal-mining towns in Texas. Established as a company town, the mining operations in Thurber were unionized in 1903 and Thurber became the first totally closed shop town in the country. By 1920, conversion of locomotives from coal to oil reduced demand and lowered prices and miners left the area through the 1920s. By 1935, Thurber was essentially a ghost town.
Much North American coal was created when swamps created organic material faster than it could decay, before the orogenies that created the Appalachian Mountains during the Carboniferous period, which is subdivided in American literature into the Mississippian and Pennsylvanian subperiods after the two main coal-bearing time periods.
Bituminous coal is mined in the Appalachian region, primarily for power generation. Mining is done via both surface and underground mines. Pocahontas bituminous coal at one time fueled half the world's navies and today stokes steel mills and power plants all over the globe.
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