Above, a crew from Brayer’s Auto Service and Towing finishes moving an anthracite coal washer called a Menzies Cone onto a flatbed truck Thursday from the site of the former Moffat Breaker in Taylor.

It's about scrap, and scrap coal at that, but technology developed by Illinois State Geological Survey and University of Illinois researchers is making Mark Kaczor late for dinner nonetheless. ?Of all ...