Briquette
Building
Bankhead coal was very brittle
and up to fifty percent of the coal
extracted from the mines had to be
processed into briquettes. Here, in
the briquette building, the fine, brittle
coal was combined with pitch from
Pennsylvania which served as a
"binder". Then, under great heat and
pressure, briquettes were produced
for heating homes and providing
fuel for locomotive engines. Five
hundred tons of briquettes could
be produced daily, but the cost of
production was too great to bring
in any respectable profits.
