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==Mining in the Streator South Quadrangle==
The earliest commercial mining in the Streator South Quadrangle took place along the banks of the
Vermilion River with some early drift mines (mine index [[5907]]) and Francis Murphy’s mine (mine index
[[2346]]) in 1851. By 1876, several mines were established in the south half of Streator, with the Chicago,
Wilmington & Vermilion No. 2 Mine (mine index [[2608]]). According to Paula Angle in Biography in Black, a
History of Streator, Illinois, most of the town of Streator was undermined by 1900. Coal mine operators
continued to mine the Herrin Coal near town and in some instances, extended the shaft deeper to mine
the Colchester Coal. Mining continued in the Streator South Quadrangle until the Streator Clay Pipe Mine
(mine index [[2727]]) closed in 1961.

The Herrin Coal was generally between 4.5 and 5.5 feet thick. The Colchester Coal was thinner, between
2.5 and 3 feet, and this coal was mined with the longwall method. The Coal Reports indicated that some
of the mines included in this report did mine the Colchester for up to two years, but no maps of workings in
the Colchester Coal have survived. The areas of these mines fit the size of the polygons shown on the
accompanying map. Therefore, the accuracy of the seam designation in the Coal Reports is uncertain,
since the cost of extending a shaft more than 100 feet further down would have been significant at any
time and mining that coal should have proceeded for more than a couple of years to justify that cost. One
possibility is that slopes or shafts were lowered to the level of the Colchester Coal, but the associated
underclay was the desired product and not the coal.

==Map and Directory PDF Download==
[https://wikiimage.isgs.illinois.edu/ilmines/webfiles/topo-mines/Streator-South.pdf Coal Mines In Illinois Streator South Quadrangle]</br>

==Mines that Appear on the Streator South Quadrangle==
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==Unlocated Mines==
===Livingston County===
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===La Salle County===
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