View of Arch Mineral Corporation's mountaintop removal and reclamation...
The Samples Mine was named for the St. Louis, Missouri-based company's executive, Eugene Samples. Though permit applications for mountaintop removal projects routinely attest to the absence of prime farmland in... More
Costain mountaintop removal mine, White Oak
Event: ATV tour of Mountaintop Removal and Reclamation on Clear Fork.
George Daugherty, the "Earl of Elkview," singing songs in protest of m...
Event: Mountaintop Removal Rally. Public domain photograph - performance, musical, dance, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
View of Arch Mineral Corporation's mountaintop removal and reclamation...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a miner, coal mine, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Reclamation of mountaintop removal site from the air
Following the rally in Cabin Creek, and a meeting of the Appalachian Voices board of directors, Hume Davenport, of Southwings in Tennessee, took board members and residents of the Coal River Valley on a series ... More
Variety of landform complexes on a mountaintop removal site from the a...
Following the rally in Cabin Creek, and a meeting of the Appalachian Voices board of directors, Hume Davenport, of Southwings in Tennessee, took board members and residents of the Coal River Valley on a series ... More
"Big John," the dragline, loading rocks and dirt into two rock trucks ...
Event: Aerial tour of mountaintop removal and reclamation. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Mountaintop removal site from the air
Following the rally in Cabin Creek, and a meeting of the Appalachian Voices board of directors, Hume Davenport, of Southwings in Tennessee, took board members and residents of the Coal River Valley on a series ... More
View of Arch Mineral Corporation's mountaintop removal and reclamation...
The Samples Mine was named for the St. Louis, Missouri-based company's executive, Eugene Samples. Though permit applications for mountaintop removal projects routinely attest to the absence of prime farmland in... More
Information about mountaintop removal and the role of Larry Gibson (on...
The Stanley Heirs Park was formed by descendants of 19th-century settlers who farmed and worked in the mines. The heirs own both minerals and surface rights to this part of Kayford Mountain, which overlooks an ... More
Reclamation on the Costain mountaintop removal site, White Oak
Event: ATV tour of Mountaintop Removal and Reclamation on Clear Fork.
"Field locust" planted at Costain's reclaimed mountaintop removal site...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington State, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Exposed seam of coal, Samples mountaintop removal site on Cabin Creek
Event: Aerial tour of mountaintop removal and reclamation. Though permit applications for mountaintop removal projects routinely attest to the absence of prime farmland in such sites, articles in 19th century i... More
Aerial view of Mountaintop removal and reclamation
Event: Helicopter tour of Mountaintop Removal and Reclamation on Big Coal River watershed. "To learn more about the cultural dimensions of "mountaintop removal and reclamation" and the new landform complexes th... More
Aerial view of mountaintop removal near Blair
Event: Coal River Mountain Watch flyover. Public domain photograph of quarry, mining industry, miners, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
"Big John," the dragline, shoveling coal at the Samples mountaintop re...
Event: Aerial tour of mountaintop removal and reclamation. The Samples mine covers eleven miles of the Cabin Creek Plateau. Writing in The Virginias, a 19th century industrial magazine, D.T. Ansted praised the ... More
On a tour of the Stanley Family cemetery, Larry Gibson identified this...
Event: Visit to Stanley Family Cemetery. Public domain photograph of a graveyard monument, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Closing circle of the Mountaintop Removal Summit
Event: Mountaintop Removal Summit. In August of 1999, Sam Cook, an anthropologist at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, organized a Mountaintop Removal Summit. The summit, held at the Appalachian South Folk... More
"Big John," the dragline, loading rocks and dirt into two rock trucks ...
Event: Aerial tour of mountaintop removal and reclamation. Public domain photograph of quarry, mining industry, miners, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Aerial view of Mountaintop removal and reclamation
Event: Helicopter tour of Mountaintop Removal and Reclamation on Big Coal River watershed. "To learn more about the cultural dimensions of "mountaintop removal and reclamation" and the new landform complexes th... More
Aerial view of Mountaintop Removal, approaching Racine
Event: Helicopter tour of Mountaintop Removal and Reclamation on Big Coal River watershed. "To better understand the method of mining known as "mountaintop removal and reclamation," Lyntha Eiler and I visited t... More
View of Arch Mineral Corporation's mountaintop removal and reclamation...
The Samples Mine was named for the St. Louis, Missouri-based company's executive, Eugene Samples. Though permit applications for mountaintop removal projects routinely attest to the absence of prime farmland in... More
Table of bumper stickers and t-shirts either protesting mountaintop re...
The Stanley Heirs Park was formed by descendants of 19th-century settlers who farmed and worked in the mines. The heirs own both minerals and surface rights to this part of Kayford Mountain, which overlooks an ... More
Presentation by Peter Lawson, Manager of Engineering and Environmental...
Event: 25th Annual West Virginia Mining Symposium. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
![[Four sightseers walking on the Great Wall of China as it descends from the mountaintop toward the valley on the left]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTAvMDEvZm91ci1zaWdodHNlZXJzLXdhbGtpbmctb24tdGhlLWdyZWF0LXdhbGwtb2YtY2hpbmEtYXMtaXQtZGVzY2VuZHMtZnJvbS10aGUtMGZiYzNhLTEwMjQuanBn/40/27/webp "[Four sightseers walking on the Great Wall of China as it descends from the mountaintop toward the valley on the left]")
[Four sightseers walking on the Great Wall of China as it descends fro...
Digital file provided by donor. Gift; Jean E. Norwood; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:207).
Aerial view of dust swirling around reclaimed mountaintop removal site
Event: Aerial tour of mountaintop removal and reclamation. Public domain photograph of mountain crater, caldera, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Aerial view of Catenary Coal's Samples Mine, a Mountaintop Removal pro...
Event: Helicopter tour of Coal River and Mountaintop Removal Sites. In the 1990s, mountaintop removal and reclamation became the mining method of choice for coal operators in central Appalachia. Mountaintop rem... More
Landform complexes produced at the Samples Mountaintop Removal Project...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a coal mine, mining, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Field locust growing on reclaimed mountaintop removal site, White Oak
Event: ATV tour of Mountaintop Removal and Reclamation on Clear Fork.
Sam Cook, displaying the backside of the t-shirt designed by Carol Jac...
Event: Mountaintop Removal Summit. In August of 1999, Sam Cook, an anthropologist at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, organized a Mountaintop Removal Summit. The summit, held at the Appalachian South Folk... More
"Big John," the dragline, loading rocks and dirt into two rock trucks ...
Event: Aerial tour of mountaintop removal and reclamation. Though permit applications for mountaintop removal projects routinely attest to the absence of prime farmland in such sites, articles in 19th century i... More
Costain mountaintop removal and reclamation site, White Oak
Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, excavation or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Reclamation on the Costain mountaintop removal site, White Oak
Event: ATV tour of Mountaintop Removal and Reclamation on Clear Fork.
Aerial view of reclaimed mountaintop removal site near Logan
Event: Coal River Mountain Watch flyover. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Aerial view of mountaintop removal near Blair
Event: Coal River Mountain Watch flyover. Public domain photograph of quarry, mining industry, miners, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
"Highland complex" on a mountaintop removal reclamation site
Event: Tour of Reclamation Sites in White Oak and Surrounding Area. "Stacy Edmunds conducted a tour of sites she'd been using in her field study for her master's thesis in ecology. As she went, she explained th... More
Aerial view of the Samples Mountaintop Removal Project on Cabin Creek
Event: Helicopter tour of Coal River and Mountaintop Removal Sites. In the 1990s, mountaintop removal and reclamation became the mining method of choice for coal operators in central Appalachia. Mountaintop rem... More
View of Arch Mineral Corporation's mountaintop removal and reclamation...
Event: Tour of Mountaintop Removal and Reclamation Sites from Seng Creek to White Oak. The Samples Mine was named for the St. Louis, Missouri-based company's executive, Eugene Samples.
Aerial view of Mountaintop removal and reclamation
Event: Helicopter tour of Mountaintop Removal and Reclamation on Big Coal River watershed. "To learn more about the cultural dimensions of "mountaintop removal and reclamation" and the new landform complexes th... More
Roosevelt Holstein, Larry Gibson, and Donald Pritt view the mountainto...
These men are officers in the Stanley Heirs Foundation: Roosevelt Holsten, vice president; Larry Gibson, president; and Donald Pritt, secretary. Event: Fourth of July celebration on Kayford Mountain.
Stacy Edmunds, Randy Sprouse, and Orie Loucks examining materials on m...
Event: Panel on Lifeways, Livelihoods, and the Commons, Lucy Braun Association Meeting.
Aerial view of mountaintop removal near Blair
Event: Coal River Mountain Watch flyover. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Diagram of mountaintop removal - Public domain document scan
This graphic illustration of mountaintop removal appears on page 25 of The Stripmining Handbook: A Coalfield Citizens' Guide to Using the Law to Fight Back Against the Ravages of Strip Mining and Underground Mi... More
Close-up of "field" locust on reclaimed mountaintop removal site, Whit...
Event: ATV tour of Mountaintop Removal and Reclamation on Clear Fork.
Aerial view of mountaintop removal site on Cabin Creek
Picryl description: Public domain image of a coal mine, mining, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
View of Arch Mineral Corporation's mountaintop removal and reclamation...
The Samples Mine was named for the St. Louis, Missouri-based company's executive, Eugene Samples. Though permit applications for mountaintop removal projects routinely attest to the absence of prime farmland in... More
View of Arch Mineral Corporation's mountaintop removal and reclamation...
The Samples Mine was named for the St. Louis, Missouri-based company's executive, Eugene Samples. Though permit applications for mountaintop removal projects routinely attest to the absence of prime farmland in... More
Information about mountaintop removal and the role of Larry Gibson (on...
The Stanley Heirs Park was formed by descendants of 19th-century settlers who farmed and worked in the mines. The heirs own both minerals and surface rights to this part of Kayford Mountain, which overlooks an ... More
Bird's eye view of a "valley fill" at the Samples mountaintop removal ...
Event: Aerial tour of mountaintop removal and reclamation. Valley fills serve as sites for dumping the excess rocks and dirt excavated in order to retrieve multiple seams of coal. This shot affords a view of th... More
View of Arch Mineral Corporation's mountaintop removal and reclamation...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, excavation or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
"Highland complex" on a mountaintop removal reclamation site
Event: Tour of Reclamation Sites in White Oak and Surrounding Area. "Stacy Edmunds conducted a tour of sites she'd been using in her field study for her master's thesis in ecology. As she went, she explained th... More
Aerial view of Catenary Coal's Samples Mine, a Mountaintop Removal pro...
Event: Helicopter tour of Coal River and Mountaintop Removal Sites. In the 1990s, mountaintop removal and reclamation became the mining method of choice for coal operators in central Appalachia. Mountaintop rem... More