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Ohio Coal-Mining Moves Above Ground

The Columbus Dispatch


The new look of Ohio coal mines

By Patrick Cooley
The Columbus Dispatch

On a brisk October afternoon, Ed Spiker stood on a black surface in the middle of a quarry cut more than 100 feet into a hillside near Cadiz, Ohio, flanked on three sides by layers of stone and sediment mapping the region’s ancient history.

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