Mine Index 0084 Southern Coal, Coke and Mining Company, Southern Mine No. 9

Mine Index Number: 0084

Company Name:	Southern Coal, Coke and Mining Company
Mine Name:	Southern Mine No. 9
Start Date:	1899	End Date:	March 1938
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	1,291
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 (9'x18')

Clinton

1N 5W

17

50 FNL, 200 FWL SW

Air shaft (6'x9')

Clinton

1N 5W

17

NW NW SW

Geology

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

Herrin

319-326

6.5

9.0

7.5-8.3

MRP

Geological Problems Reported

The mine is crossed by a number of faults trending WNW-ESE in which the offset is about the thickness of the seam, upthrown on the south side. Limestone forms the immediate roof over most of the mine, black shale is the roof over the remainder. Black shale is very poor roof and must be heavily timbered. Sometimes coal is left with the black slate as a good clean parting occurs there. The floor clay heaves very badly when wet or if pillars are robbed. The source map shows areas of squeeze in the north central part of the mine, some rooms labeled “caved” in the north part of the mine, and several offsets in the mining pattern (throughout the mine) due to faults.

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

Muren Coal and Ice Company (add)	Muren No. 1 and 2 (add)	1899-1905	918,829

Southern Coal and Mining Company (add)	Southern No. 9 (add)	1905-1912	1,842,303

Southern Coal, Coke and Mining Company (add)	Southern No. 9, New Baden (add)	1912-1938	7,138,850

Total Production: 9,899,982

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

Microfilm, document 351119

4-24-1939

1:2400

1:4303

Final

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation, seam, depth, thickness, geologic problems.

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

Mine notes (Clinton County) - Mine type, shaft locations, seam, depth, thickness, geologic problems.

Microfilm map, document 351119, reel 03134, frames 248-251 - Shaft locations, mine outline, mining method, geologic problems.

Company map, state archive, IL_53_03 (same as microfilm) - Shaft locations, mine outline, mining method.