Mine Index 0967 Consolidation Coal Company, Burning Star No. 5 Mine

Mine Index Number: 0967

Accessible description: Mine Name and Data Summary

Company Name:	Consolidation Coal Company
Mine Name:	Burning Star No. 5 Mine
Start Date:	1976	End Date:	1989
Type of Mine:	Surface
Total acres shown:	2,379
Acres after map date:		General Area of mining acres shown:

Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)

Type	County	Township-Range	Section	Part Section

Shaft Type	County	Township-Range	Section	Part Section
Pit	Jackson	8S 1E	6	NW

Shaft Type	County	Township-Range	Section	Part Section
Pit	Jackson	8S 1W	1, 11 and 12

Shaft Type	County	Township-Range	Section	Part Section
Pit	Jackson	7S 1W	21, 22 ,24, 28, 33, 34

Geology

		Thickness (ft)
Seam	Depth (ft)	Min	Max	Ave	Mining Method

Seam	Depth (ft)	Thickness Min	Thickness max	Thickness Ave.	Mining Method
Herrin	50	5.0	10.0	9.5	Surface

Seam	Depth (ft)	Thickness Min	Thickness max	Thickness Ave.	Mining Method
Springfield (1978 & 1979)	75-80			3.5	Surface

Geological Problems Reported

The east-west pit (11 & 12-T8S-R1W) north of the De Soto-Hurst blacktop (state route 149) mined only the Herrin Coal, which had no splits. The plan was to open a new pit south of that blacktop when the dragline was completed (expected Feb/Mar 1978), to mine both Herrin & Springfield Coals. That coal was projected to be mined out by Aug/Dec 1979, then the big dragline was to move west of the prep plant where the Herrin Coal was split into several benches. The pit in 11 & 12-T8S-R1W had an erosional channel (up to 25 feet thick or more) filled with sandstone above the coal through a part of the pit. This sandstone discharged some water into the pit. These were Walshville Channel sediments, sometimes replacing the upper part of the coal and sometimes eroding part of the coal. Another part of that pit showed the strongly undulating coal surface. Methane gas bubbled out of the coal into the water in the pit. The shale above the coal in this pit was gray or dark gray. Pyrite was present as fracture facings, but no bands were noted. The Herrin Coal was present in both low sulfur and high sulfur qualities, depending on the depositional history of the area of the pit. Calcite veins and pyrite veins were present near a fault in the Herrin Coal (SE 2-T8S-R1W). (Displacement on the fault was not noted, and may have been small.) In the eastern pits, the Herrin Coal was split into two benches. The Energy Shale was 12 to 15 feet thick over 1 to 1.5 feet of coal in the upper bench. The interburden was 12 to 15 feet of gray silty shale above the 6 feet thick lower bench of the Herrin Coal.

Production

Company	Mine Name	Date	Production (tons)

Company	Mine Name	Date	Production (tons)
Consolidation Coal Company (add)	Burning Star No. 5 (add)	1976-1989	30,081,746

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map	Map Date	Original Scale	Digitized Scale	Map Type

Source Map	Map Date	Original Scale	Digitized Scale	Map Type
Company, 4103.J31 i5.1-38	12-31-1990	1:12000	1:12000	Final

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

Bibliography
Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation, thickness.

Bibliography
Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (Jackson County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.

Bibliography
Mine notes (Jackson County) - Mine type, seams, depth, thickness, geologic problems.

Bibliography
Company map, ISGS map library, 4103.J31 i5.1-38 - Mine outline, mining method.