The remaining structure of Banning Mine No. 4 reflecting off water.
Photo by: Rich Pantaleo/Flickr
The five-story structure looming over the Great Allegheny Passage (gaptrail.org) is the coal processing plant built by Republic Steel Corporation in 1962 on the site of its Banning No. 4 mine. It was the signature project in a six-year program to upgrade and modernize the company’s coal mining operations. A news report from the time claimed that the plant was “equipped with two American-made, heavy-media coal cleaning units” and would be able to “process 500 tons of coal per hour.” Processed coal was taken from the plant to Republic’s steel-making operations in Ohio. [1] Republic Steel Corporation closed the Banning No. 4 mine in the early 1980s.
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