Mine Index Number: 0008
| Company Name:
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Marquette Third Vein Coal Company
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| Mine Name:
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Marquette Mine
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| Start Date:
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Pre 1881
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End Date:
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1914
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| Type of Mine:
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Underground
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| Total acres shown:
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561
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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
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Bureau
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16N 11E
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31
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SW NW SE
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Geology
| Colchester
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280
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3.0
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3.67
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3.5
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LW
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Geological Problems Reported
The immediate roof was 5 to 10 feet of gray shale soapstone with a black shale above. The mine notes contain the statement that the roof was not very good, and “the roof settles heavily so that the gob is pressed solid”. Breaks leading to surface subsidence were usually at an angle of 74 degrees up to the vertical. Occasional slips and rolls were small and infrequent. The coal had a clay parting ½ to 1 inch thick that included pyrite streaks. Pyrite was also present as lenses and balls in other parts of the seam. The underclay averaged 8 inches thick, but ranged up to 2 feet thick.
Production
| Company
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Mine Name
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Date
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Production (tons)
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| George H. Locey
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Locey
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pre1881-1887 Production and years of operation before 1881 are not known. The 1882 Coal Report indicated 10 acres were mined.
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193,366 Production and years of operation before 1881 are not known. The 1882 Coal Report indicated 10 acres were mined.
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| Total Production: 3,671,355
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Production Notes
Coal Report production (if available)
Sources of Data
| ISGS map library, 4103.B8 i5.1-5, sheet 5
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1935
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1:31680
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1:31680
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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, seam.
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| Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (Bureau County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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| Mine notes (Bureau County) - Mine type, shaft location, depth, thickness, mining method, geologic problems.
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| ISGS map library, 4103.B8 i5.1-5, sheet 5, work map of Federal Land Bank Report - Shaft location, mine outline.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
Photographs
