Coal Mining Vocab 1-4

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Across
  1. 4. the expected amount of the coal the miner was to gather
  2. 7. pulled coal buggies to unload coal
  3. 10. an iron trough where culm was picked out from the coal
  4. 13. wire box like an elevator that dropped miners down the shaft
  5. 14. a coal mine
  6. 16. wore over the mouths to keep from inhaling coal dust
  7. 18. rock that is ten times harder than iron and difficult to drill
Down
  1. 1. building into which coal cars were tipped when they came from the mines
  2. 2. a miner's helper that was learning the craft of mining
  3. 3. a colorless, odorless, highly poisonous gas
  4. 5. narrow coal seams where the miner had to crawl on their hands and knees
  5. 6. a tall building where coal was broken and sorted for market
  6. 8. a fine grained rock that spits into then, smooth surfaced layers
  7. 9. pulled cars loaded with coal
  8. 11. boys who controlled the speed of mine cars with long pieces of wood called sprags
  9. 12. door tender who opened and closed heavy wooden doors across gangways
  10. 15. main road in the coal mine
  11. 17. refuse, like rock or slate