Anyone who has lived near a strip or mountaintop removal mine knows there is no such thing as clean coal. Anyone who has lived near a tipple for the sorting, washing and loading of coal on trains ...

A little more than a year ago, they introduced Sooty's Coal Tipple, and have now added an O gauge Sooty's Mine Shaft to the ...

"Coal Tipple" is a black-and-white photograph that exemplifies the Bechers’ signature ... Their black-and-white images served as visual case studies of what they called Anonymous Sculpture, referring ...

The women in the photo are “boney pickers” on the job in 1943 at the Reliance Tipple. Tipples were large structures used to sort and load coal. Coal was transported from the mines to the ...