STORIES: In and Out of the Dark: coal3

A worker cuts apart pieces of the Silver Spade at the Mahoning Valley Mine in New Athens, Ohio. A local organization formed in 1992 to save the Spade and make it a tourist attraction. Despite 15 years of planning, they were unsuccessful, and the Spade was sold for scrap metal. The huge machine, one of only two ever built, was the last of its kind.

A worker cuts apart pieces of the Silver Spade at the Mahoning Valley Mine in New Athens, Ohio. A local organization formed in 1992 to save the Spade and make it a tourist attraction. Despite 15 years of planning, they were unsuccessful, and the Spade was sold for scrap metal. The huge machine, one of only two ever built, was the last of its kind.