Progress on region’s first new coal breaker since ’97
KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL - The new Keystone Anthracite breaker, seen from the Frackville Little League field on April 13, 2025.
WEST MAHANOY TOWNSHIP – The first new coal breaker in the northern Schuylkill County this century is continuing to take shape just north of Mahanoy Plane.
The Sentinel broke the story in late 2023 and has been the only news source covering it.
Keystone Anthracite, of Girardville, is building the plant on Girard Estate land in West Mahanoy Township. It’s about a quarter mile north of Main Street in Gilberton borough, about a half mile south of William Penn, and 1.25 miles west of the North Schuylkill Transfer Station.
Construction on the breaker has been ongoing for well over a year and the frame is plainly visible from the Gold Star Highway and much of Frackville.
The structure can be seen towering over the surrounding mine lands from the Frackville Little League fields.
It’s the first new breaker in northern Schuylkill County since the breaker near Connerton, off Route 54, was built in 1997 by the Girard Estate. That breaker was acquired by Reading Anthracite in 2003.
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