Mine Index Number: 0003
| Company Name:
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La Salle County Carbon Coal Company
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| Mine Name:
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La Salle Mine
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| Start Date:
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1856
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End Date:
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January 1930
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| Type of Mine:
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Underground
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| Total acres shown:
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1,274[1]
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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 [2]
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La Salle
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33N 1E
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15
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NE SE SE
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Geology
| Colchester
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390-420
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2.5
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4.0
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3.5
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LW (old longwall)
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Geological Problems Reported
Very little timbering was needed for the gray shale roof. It arched well and the gob packs behind the advancing longwall provided adequate support. Black shale made up the roof locally, and ranged from 1 to 3 feet thick. This black shale came down easily and contained concretions. The coal was thinner under the black shale. The roof was poor near slips and rolls. The coal contained pyrite bands and balls as well as sheets of calcite and pyrite along cleavage planes. A persistent band of pyrite balls occurred 21 inches from the top of the seam.
Production
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Mine Name
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Date
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Production (tons)
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| Total Production: 4,780,179
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Production Notes
Coal Report production (if available)
Sources of Data
| Microfilm, document 352407
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1-3-1930
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1:2400
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1:4634
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Final
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Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)
| Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation, depth, thickness, mining method.
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| Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (La Salle County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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| Mine notes (La Salle County) - Mine type, shaft location, seam, depth, thickness, geologic problems.
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| Bedford, Willam T., 1911, Twentieth Anniversary Souvenir Edition; The La Salle Tribune 1891-1911, printed & published at LaSalle, Illinois , re-published by LaSalle County Genealogy Guild, 1996, 206p. - Ownership, years of operation.
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| Microfilm map, document 352407, reel 03139, frames 66-69 - Shaft locations, mine outline, mining method.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
Photographs
Notes
- ↑ The boundaries between the La Salle Mine, the Rockwell Mine (mine index 238), and the Kentucky Mine (mine index 5660) could not be distinguished. The area shown includes all three mines.
- ↑ An escape road was shown on the source map, connecting to the Jones Mine (mine index 273). Text on the source map also indicates the Rockwell Shaft (mine index 238) may have been kept open for escape purposes for the La Salle Mine as well.
- ↑ The 1882 Coal Report indicated 450 acres had been mined. Production before July 1881 is unknown.
