Coal Mine - Fushun, Manchuria

Coal Mine in Fushun, Manchuria. View 3 of a panorama of the Fushun Coal Mine, one of the largest open pit mines in the world. This mine was the foundation of a large industrial complex, since the over-burden consisted of shale which provided a cheap raw material for a shale oil industry. Included in the complex were a coal hydrogenation plant, an aluminum plant, and oil shale refinery and a large thermal power house connected into the power grid serving South Manchuria. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).