Mine Index Number: 0049
| Company Name:
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Peabody Coal Company
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| Mine Name:
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Peabody No. 46 Mine
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| Start Date:
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1905
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End Date:
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January 1927
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| Type of Mine:
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Underground
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| Total acres shown:
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399
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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 (13x9)
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Saline
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8S 7E
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34
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SE SE NE
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| Escape/air shaft (10x10)
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Saline
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8S 7E
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34
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SE SE NE
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Geology
| Springfield
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260-339
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4.5
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6.2
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5.5
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MRP
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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
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Mine Name
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Date
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Production (tons)
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| Total Production: 2,309,644
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Production Notes
Coal Report production (if available)
Sources of Data
| Microfilm, document 352844
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4-1-1929
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1:2400
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1:4634
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Final
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Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)
| Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation, shaft sizes, depth, geologic problems.
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| Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (Saline County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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| Mine notes (Saline County) - Mine type, shaft location, seam, thickness, geologic problems.
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| Microfilm map, document 352844, reel 03140, frames 458, 459 - Shaft locations, mine outline, mining method, geologic problems.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
Photographs
Notes
- ↑ Production 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.
- ↑ Idle 1922
- ↑ Reported idle 1928 through 1939
- ↑ Reported idle 1928 through 1939
