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Monongah

Boom town, United States, founded 1891.

About Monongah

Town settlement in Marion County, West Virginia, United States of America.1

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Events

Led toMonongah mine explosionMonongah is part of this story: Monongah mine explosion.1Led toConsol No. 9 mine explosion at FarmingtonMonongah is part of this story: Consol No. 9 mine explosion at Farmington.1

Places

ExamplesCentraliaA Pennsylvania mine fire since 1962, and a West Virginia coal town in the 1907 disaster.2

Sources

  1. Wikidata item Q2731020 (Monongah)
  2. Wikidata item Q492386 (Centralia)

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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Cover photos from Wikimedia Commons: Super Pit, Kalgoorlie by Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0; Chuquicamata from the ISS by Alexander Gerst (ESA), CC BY-SA 2.0.