THE MINERAL INDUSTRY OF PENNSYLVANIA 
 
 
Table 5.—Coal (bituminous) production, by counties 
679 
County ——  Under-  ground 
 
Numbe 
r of mines 
 
 Production, thousand 
 tons 
Average 
price 
per ton 
 
 
Strip 
— Auger 
Total 
 
 
Allegheny                       
12 
15 
1 
28 
5,028 
~5.28 
Armstrong                       
Blair                           
31 
1 
45 
1 
 11 
~ 
87 
2 
5,899 
5 
4.24 
5.51 
ButIer_.~                        
Cambria                        
Centre                         
8 
57 
3 
32 
22 
12 
5 
6 
2 
45 
85 
17 
2,023 
7,718 
 786 
3.82 
5.98 
3.93 
Clarion                          
Clearfield                        
Clinton                               
1 
25 
60 
57 
12 
9 
  
61 
91 
12 
2,828 
6,910 
929 
3.91 
3.73 
3,, 77 
Elk                             
4 
9 
4 
17 
320 
3.90 
Fayette                         
Greene                          
Huntingdon                      
Indiana                         
Jefferson                         
Lawrence                             
7 
19 
2 
45 
18 
24 
3 
2 
30 
41 
19 
1 
7 
12 
  
31 
22 
5 
82 
71 
19 
527 
11,898 
44 
7,669 
1,771 
925 
5.42 
6.89 
2.69 
4.50 
4O1 
3.88 
Lycoming                            Mercer                              

 
5 
6 
 
5 
6 
113 
305 
3.26 
3.73 
Somerset                        
Tioga                                
Venango                              
Washington                      
Westmoreland                    
Other counties I                   
 
Total                      
41 
 
 
16 
16 
6 
60 
7 
13 
15 
22 
5 
2 
  
  
1 
1 
  
103 
7 
13 
32 
39 
11 
4,061 
715 
517 
14,776 
3,333 
313 
4.16 
428 
3.26 
6.55 
5.53 
3,69 
 
312 
517 
62 
891 
279,412 
528 
 1 Includes data for Beaver and Bedford Counties. 
 2 Data do not add to total shown because of independent rounding. 
 
loaders. Strip pits (the largest segment of the industry) supplied 4.7 million
tons, cuim banks 3.6 million tons, and river dredging 631,600 tons. Production
of freshmined coal (underground and strip mines) continued to decrease, a
1.3-million-ton loss from that of 1966. 
 Daily employment in the anthracite industry averaged 7,750 men (1,542 less
than in 1966). Productivity from all operations except dredges averaged 6.9
tons per manday, while dredge operations reported 34.2 tons per man-day for
an overall average of 7.21 tons per man-day (0.3 ton better than in 1966).

 Luzerne County continued to be the leading producer with 4.3 million tons,
followed by Schuylkill County with 4.2 million tons, and Northumberland with
1.5 million tons. 
 Retail dealer deliveries for the year increased by 200,000 tons while industrial
consumption by electric utilities and coke plants remained virtually unchanged.

 Nine deaths were reported in the anthracite industry for a frequency rate
of 0.74 per million man.hours exposure, an increase of three deaths from
1966. Three of the fatalities occurred at a mine employing fewer than 15
persons underground, five at mines employing 15 or 
more persons underground, and one at a strip mine. There were 609 nonfatal
lost-time injuries, a frequency rate of 50.00 per million man-hours. 
 
 Coal (Bituminous) .—Bituminous coal production totaled 79.4 million
tons at an average of $5.28 per ton. The 48.7 million tons sold in the open
market averaged $4.30 per ton, and the 30.7 million tons not sold in the
open market averaged $6.84 per ton. Of the total output, 62 million tons
was shipped by rail or water, 15.1 million tons by truck, and 2.3 million
tons by other means. 
 There were 891 mines, including 312 underground mines producing 56.5 million
tons, 517 strip mines producing 22.0 million tons, and 62 auger mines producing
938,000 tons. 
 Pennsylvania is divided into two bituminous coal-producing districts. District
1 consists of Bedford, Blair, Bradford, Cambria, Cameron, Centre, Clarion,
Clearfield, Clinton, Elk, Forest, Fulton, Huntington, Jefferson, Lycoming,
McKean, Muffin, Potter, Somerset, and Tioga Counties; that part of Armstrong
County including mines served by the P. & S. R.R. on the west bank of
the Allegheny River, and north of the Conemaugh di-