Mines Of The Past: Gold and Coal
Season 13 Episode 7 | 27m 37sVideo has Closed Captions
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.
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Exploring North Carolina is a local public television program presented by PBS NC
UNC-TV, Natural World Productions, LLC, WRAL-TV and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
Mines Of The Past: Gold and Coal
Season 13 Episode 7 | 27m 37sVideo has Closed Captions
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.
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