G-IV-A-068

Ashby Mine

Architectural Survey File

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Last Updated: 12-01-2003

-- G-IV-A-068 Ashby Mine Crellin Mine Road Crellin

The ruins of this mining complex lie about 1/2 mile south of the center of

the town of Crellin, south of Crellin Mine Road, north of Ashby Cemetery Road.

The Ashby Mine was a drift mine. A drift opening is a horizontal tunnel or

adit driven into the coal seam from the surface outcrop. This method was

employed in all of the basins wherever the coal outcropped. The openings

usually were supported by wooden mine props, consistent with the support

system in the mine workings. Many of these mine openings have collapsed and

eroded, leaving only traces of the mine entrance.

The complex also includes a tipple. A tipple (known in the anthracite and

other bituminous coal regions as a "breaker") is a structure in which coal from

the mine is processed for market and loaded into railroad cars or other transport

facilities. The tipple at the Ashby Mine was an end dump tipple, where the coal

was released from the mine car by tipping the mine car on end. Specifically, it

was a "half-tipple." With this type, the mine car was dumped when it struck

"horns" which tipped the car and discharged the coal. This is the simplest form

of tipple.

In addition to the mine opening itself, left on the site are a tram, hoist

house, tipple, and two mine cars.

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