Joel Sartore Joel Sartore

National Geographic Photographer and Speaker

Photo: A mussel shows off coal fines, the sediments from Virginia's coal mines that wash into the rivers of Tennessee.

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A mussel shows off coal fines, the sediments from Virginia’s coal mines that wash into the rivers of Tennessee. It is thought that coal fines and the use of heavy industrial chemicals to clean coal in Viriginia are both major factors in the disappearance of rare Mussels in the Clinch and Powell Rivers, two of the last places where many rare mussels were found.

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