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    <abstract id="aspace_ca5c44ebf0e8760d3e80f09d43d88b2c">Okey Meadows wrote this history, entitled "Black Diamonds", which covers coal mining from ancient times to the present, describes cannel coal and its uses, and includes a prospectus for the Licking River Commerce Company of Kentucky. Other subjects dealt with are economic conditions of the early 1930s and the geology of oil shales.</abstract>
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    <subject source="local_LC">Cannel coal -- Coal mines and mining</subject>
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    <corpname source="local_LC">Licking River Commerce Company</corpname>
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