Mine Index 0049 Peabody Coal Company, Peabody No. 46 Mine

Mine Index Number: 0049

Company Name:	Peabody Coal Company
Mine Name:	Peabody No. 46 Mine
Start Date:	1905	End Date:	January 1927
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	399
Acres after map date:		General Area of mining acres shown:

Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)

Type	County	Township-Range	Section	Part Section

Main shaft (13x9)

Saline

8S 7E

34

SE SE NE

Escape/air shaft (10x10)

Saline

8S 7E

34

SE SE NE

Geology

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

Springfield

260-339

4.5

6.2

5.5

MRP

Geological Problems Reported

The 1909 Coal Report stated that the mine made considerable gas. Two explosions, one in 1909 and one in 1917, killed a total of 6 men. A southeast-northwest trending igneous dike was cut through the coal 800 feet east of the shaft. A northwest-southeast trending fault, shown on the source map, halted eastward expansion. The roof was 10 feet of black shale that contained numerous concretions (some ranging up to 4 feet in diameter). In some limited areas, the roof was lenticular gray shale pods up to 2 feet thick. The boundary between the coal and the roof was irregular. The coal was very hard and this made for difficulties in shooting off the solid. Concretions were also present in the seam, and the floor contained pyrite concretions. The floor tended to heave when wet.

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

National Mining Company (add)	National No. 1 (add)	1905-1907	37,735

Harrisburg Southern Coal Company (add)	Harrisburg Southern No. 1 (add)	1907-1912	502,259Production was not reported in 1910. Two deaths were reported in July, another in September, and two more deaths occurred in November of 1909, indicating that mining occurred throughout the fiscal year.

Big Creek Collieries Company (add)	Big Creek No. 1 (add)	1912-1913	143,331

Saline County Coal Company (add)	Saline County No. 6, Grayson (add)	1913-1919	1,120,224

Big Creek Coal Company (add)	Big Creek No. 6 (add)	1919-1921	233,619

Big Creek Coals, Inc. (add)	Big Creek No. 6 (add)	1921-1923Idle 1922	187,028

Saline County Coal Corporation (add)	Saline County No. 6 (add)	1923-1927	85,448

Saline County Coal Corporation (add)	Saline County No. 46 (add)	1928-1928Reported idle 1928 through 1939	none

Peabody Coal Company (add)	Peabody No. 46 (add)	1929-1939Reported idle 1928 through 1939	none

Total Production: 2,309,644

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

Microfilm, document 352844

4-1-1929

1:2400

1:4634

Final

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation, shaft sizes, depth, geologic problems.

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

Mine notes (Saline County) - Mine type, shaft location, seam, thickness, geologic problems.

Microfilm map, document 352844, reel 03140, frames 458, 459 - Shaft locations, mine outline, mining method, geologic problems.