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Letter to the Editor
September 2000 by Guest Writer
In the August 2000 issue of the Journal, the story of the "Quartszite Area" was most informative and accurate.Historic Mining at Mount Diablo, CA
Located in Contra Costa County in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, Mount Diablo was the site of the largest coal mining operation in the state in the last half of the nineteenth century. The northern foothills of the mountain produced nearly four million tons of coal.
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