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Oral History: After the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company closed down its underground mines in 1954, two small companies leased mines and breakers and attempted to continue mining in the Panther Valley. They could not survive and in 1960 the Lanscoal Company began…

Image: Mike "Tarzan" Lukas

Image: John "Cooney" Lazar

Image: Mike "Crow" Sabron

Image: John "Long John" Matyka

Image: Ed "popeye" Zuzu

Image: Mike Sabron, waving goodbye to No. 9 mine

Image: Last of the coal mined in No. 9 mine, June 22, 1972

Image: Mike Sabron and buddies, drinking beer after work, No. 9 mine

Image: Group of miners singing after work

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Image: Miners relaxing in carved-out shanty in gangway of No.9 mine

Image: Mike Sabron loading coal into mine cars from chute

Image: Paul Petrash drilling hole in rock to remove blockage in chute

Image: Mike Sabron coming up chute from gangway

Image: Mike Lukas coming down chute

Image: Mike Sabron ascending chicken ladder into chute

Image: Mike "Tarzan" Lukas setting lattice work over timbers in gangway

Image: Setting timber in gangway

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Image: No. 9 mine entrance, with the passage of time

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Image: No. 9 mine entrance, recently blocked off

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Image: showing effects of deterioration after being sealed for more than twenty years

Image: No. 9 tunnel after reopening, 1995-showing effects of deterioration after being sealed for more than twenty years

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