Iron County Record | 1937-01-07 | Page 4 | Electric 'Prospector' Finds Coal Veins in Pennsylvania

Electric Finds Coal Veins in Pennsylvania I NEW The same technique of using using electrical I prospecting methods often likened to electrical divining rods which rods has worked so successfully in discovering oil gold and other minerals is now being used to find deposits of coal coul In Pennsylvania Scientists told the meeting of the American Institute of or Mining J and Metallurgical I engineers here that the new electrical methods based on 00 how bow well a seam of ot coal cOlli conducts electricity were successful In the tho Mahanoy coal cOlli fields Dellis which already have been worked for tor 70 10 Locating Anthracite Pits Pit Most MOlt of ot the coal seams Dr Maurice Mau rice A. A I Crary Crory J. J V. W. Peoples leo Peo ples and J. J A Peoples Jr In their report were worked near the surface la III the past but since the workings were never completely or accurately mapped complete extraction ex ex- traction of the coal from older pits was wal not cot obtained In consequence they point out of ot coal not heretofore known ire yet et to be found