Mine Stays Open While Others Bite Dust From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: February 7, 1995| Author: Frank Fisher | Copyright 1995 Chicago Sun-Times. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

GALATIA, Ill. Steve Rowland stares as a huge piece of machinery resembling the bottom half of an Army tank slides along the mine wall, gouging out tons of coal 560 feet underground.

"If this was 15 years ago, you wouldn't even be able to see your hand in front of your face," he yells, proud of how his longwall shear performs with a minimum of the dust that used to paint faces and choke lungs.

At Kerr-McGee Coal Corp.'s Galatia mine, where Rowland is general manager, the futu...

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