County: Cherokee

Date: Pre 2010

Photographer: John Charlton/KGS

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Short description: During strip-mining operations, overlying soil and rock is stripped away using power shovels to expose coal beds too thin to be mined underground. Before widespread land reclamation was required in 1969, abandoned strip-mined trenches filled with water.

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