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Preview: Mines Of The Past: Gold and Coal

This is the story of NC’s forgotten mining past.

11/08/2018

Exploring North Carolina

Preview: Mines Of The Past: Gold and Coal

Preview: Season 13 | 30s

This is the story of NC’s forgotten mining past.

ENC will examine two forgotten chapters in our economic and geological past, which are both exciting and painful. NC was a gold mining state, and in the first quarter of the 1800s produced some of the largest gold nuggets ever found in the continental U.S. Coal mining was a very dangerous occupation and in the mid-1920s over 50 miners lost their lives in a single mining accident.

11/08/2018

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