Mine Index Number: 3740
Company Name:
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Bunsen Coal Company
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Mine Name:
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Kelly No. 5 Mine
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Start Date:
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1902
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End Date:
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1911
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Type of Mine:
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Underground
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Total acres shown:
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263
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Acres after map date:
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General Area of mining acres shown:
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Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)
Type
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County
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Township-Range
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Section
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Part Section
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Main shaft
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Vermilion
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19N 11W
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32
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NE SW NE
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Air shaft
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Vermilion
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19N 11W
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32
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SE NW NE
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Geology
Geological Problems Reported
Production
Company
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Mine Name
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Date
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Production (tons)
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Kelly Coal Company
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Kelly No. 45
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1906-1909 Idle 1909. The title block for the 1909 source map indicates the mine was owned by Hammond Coal Company, and was known as the No. 45 Mine. A handwritten note on the map blueline print states the mine was operated by Brazil Block Coal Company. Production was not reported under either name.
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308,135
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Production Notes
Coal Report production (if available)
Sources of Data
ISGS map library, 4103.V4 i5.1-135 The map is incomplete in the northwestern part of the mine.
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7-1-1947
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1:42240
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1:42240
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Secondary source
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State Archive, MSHA_1050_01
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4-11-1909
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1:2400
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1:2400
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Not final
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Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)
Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation, depth, thickness.
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Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (Vermilion County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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Mine notes (Vermilion County) - Mine type, shaft location, seam, thickness.
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ISGS map library, 4103.V4 i5.1-135, property map of U.S. Coal & Coke - Mine location, mine outline.
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ISGS map library, 4103.V4 i5.1-124, map of Kelly No. 4 (mine index 3660) - Mine outline, mine location, mining method.
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Company map, State Archive, MSHA_1050_01, courtesy Robert Gibson, DNR - Mine outline, shaft locations, mining method.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
Company: MSHA_1050
Map Date: 4-11-1909
Coal Co.: Bunsen Coal Company
Mine Name: Kelly No. 5 Mine
Image Credit: Illinois Department of Natural Resources - Office of Mines and Minerals
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Photographs
Caption: Brick house near Danville abandoned on account of danger by room-and-pillar mining of a 6-foot coal at a depth of about 200 feet.
Credit: Illinois State Geological Survey
Date: Pre-1914
Publication: Fig. 42 Cooperative Bulletin 17 – Subsidence in Illinois
Library No.: M-1007
Caption: Brick house near Danville abandoned on account of danger by room-and-pillar mining of a 6-foot coal at a depth of about 200 feet.
Credit: Illinois State Geological Survey
Date: Pre-1914
Library No.: M-1008
Caption: Brick house near Danville abandoned on account of danger by room-and-pillar mining of a 6-foot coal at a depth of about 200 feet.
Credit: Illinois State Geological Survey
Date: Pre-1914
Library No.: M-1009
Caption: Brick house near Danville abandoned on account of danger by room-and-pillar mining of a 6-foot coal at a depth of about 200 feet.
Credit: Illinois State Geological Survey
Date: Pre-1914
Library No.: M-1010
Caption: Brick house near Danville abandoned on account of danger by room-and-pillar mining of a 6-foot coal at a depth of about 200 feet.
Credit: Illinois State Geological Survey
Date: Pre-1914
Library No.: M-1011
Caption: Subsidence Kelly No 5 Mine
(Mine Index:3740)
Credit: Illinois State Geological Survey
Date: Pre-1914
Library No.: M-929