Mine Index 3638 Dering Coal Company, B and B Mine

Mine Index Number: 3638

Company Name:	Dering Coal Company
Mine Name:	B and B Mine
Start Date:	1895	End Date:	1904
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	None
Production Indicated Acres:	9	General Area of mining acres shown:

Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)

Type	County	Township-Range	Section	Part Section

Main shaft

Tazewell

25N 4W

7

NE SW NW

Geology

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

Springfield

50-80

4.0-4.5

RP

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

Dering and Bart (add)	Dering and Bart (add)	1895-1896	800

W. F. Deering & Company (add)	Deering (add)	1896-1897	729

Groveland Coal Company (add)	Groveland (add)	1897-1899	7,108

William F. Doering (add)	Doering (add)	1899-1902	12,251

B. and B. Coal Company (add)	B. and B. (add)	1902-1903	5,589

Dering Coal Company (add)	B. and B. (add)	1903-1904	6,480

Total Production: 32,957

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

Coal Section mine database

Undated

(text only)

1:24000The mine location was plotted on a 1:24000 USGS topographic map from the mine location digitized.

Secondary source

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation, seam, depth, thickness, mining method.

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