Mine Index Number: 0865
| Company Name:
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Amax Coal Company
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| Mine Name:
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Sun Spot Mine
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| Start Date:
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1962
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End Date:
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December 1983
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| Type of Mine:
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Surface
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| Total acres shown:
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8,883 The area shown on the accompanying map is larger than expected for the reported production.
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| Production Indicated Acres:
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4,700
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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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| Tipple
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Fulton
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3N1 E
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4
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SW NE NE
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Geology
| Springfield
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22
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4.65
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Surface
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| Colchester
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40-70
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2.0-2.43
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Surface
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Geological Problems Reported
The Colchester Coal had occasional pyrite lenses and numerous nodules. The nodules were flattened ovals, up to 3 inches across. Pyrite and calcite were present on vertical facings. Clay dikes were present, some as small as 0.1 inch wide, while others were several inches to a foot wide.
Production
| Company
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Mine Name
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Date
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Production (tons)
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| Total Production: 17,586,613
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Production Notes
Coal Report production (if available)
Sources of Data
| NAIP digital ortho-photo quadrangle
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2015
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1:6000
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1:6000
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Secondary source
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Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)
| Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation.
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| Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (Fulton County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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| Mine notes (Fulton County) - Mine type, mine location, seam, depth, thickness, geologic problems.
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| National Agriculture Imagery Program map, digital ortho-photo quadrangle map, Ipava Quadrangle, 2015 - Mine outlines.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
Photographs
