On Friday, September 1st - the documentary "Hard Coal: Last of the Bootleg Miners" premiered in Mahanoy City - 10 miles north of Tamaqua PA.
The film tells the story of the last 12 surviving hard coal bootleg coal mines.
Although our country is running short of fuel - and Pennsylvania has a 400 year supply of Anthracite - efforts are being made to curtail mining it. Presently - a coal to oil industry is being developed in Schuylkill County. If properly done - coal could be the solution to our country's energy needs.
These pictures were taken from the production of that film. You can see a preview of the film by clicking on the title - Hard Coal - in the headline above.
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