Nuttallburg's tipple was a large metal structure where coal was sorted, stored, loaded into rail cars, or transferred to the site's coke ovens. Its name came from the practice in some mines of tipping ore cars to unload them. The Fordson Coal Company, which leased the Nuttallburg Mine in the 1920s, built this third tipple on the site in 1923-24. In New River Gorge, mining was complicated because the coal seam lay half-way up the gorge slope, so coal had to be moved from the headhouse at the mine entrance down a conveyor to the tipple at the gorge bottom. The tipple was the centerpiece of the operation, connected to rail sidings from the C&O main line, and Nuttallburg's siding had three tracks passing beneath it. Its system included a conveyor carrying coal from the mine, a Marcus picking table screen for cleaning and sorting, a loading boom that gently lowered coal into rail cars, separate tracks for slack coal, intermediate grades, and larger lump coal, a house coal hopper for residents' cooking and heating, silo storage that allowed mining to continue when no railroad cars were available, and a Roberts and Schaefer shaker screen for sorting coal arriving from the silo.