The Huber Breaker was a coal breaker and landmark located in the borough of Ashley, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
A disused Huber coal breaker in Ashley, Pennsylvania, September 2003
A coal breaker is a coal processing plant which breaks coal into various useful sizes. Coal breakers also remove impurities from the coal and deposit them into a culm dump. The coal breaker is a forerunner of the modern coal preparation plant.
A coal breaking plant, depicted on a postcard in 1907.
Coal breaker at an anthracite coal mine near Scranton, Pennsylvania, 1905
Breaker boys sort coal at an anthracite coal breaker near South Pittston, Pennsylvania, 1911
Coal being sorted by size and impurities removed on a dry screen at the Saint Nicholas breaker near Gilberton, Pennsylvania, 1938