Mine Index Number: 0090
| Company Name:
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Pinckneyville Mining Company
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| Mine Name:
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Pinckneyville No. 5 Mine
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| Start Date:
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1909
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End Date:
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November 1951
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| Type of Mine:
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Underground
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| Total acres shown:
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598
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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[1]
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Perry
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5S 3W
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23
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SE NW NE
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| Air shaft
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Perry
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5S 3W
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23
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SE NW NE
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Geology
| Herrin
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135-149
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6.5
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8.5
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7.0
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MRP
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Geological Problems Reported
Slips and rolls contributed to bad roof conditions. Top coal was left to support the roof only near the shaft. The mine roof was about half black shale and half white top and gray shale. A microfilm source map (document 352127) showed areas of bad roof, particularly in the southern part of the mine and in 23-T5S-R3W. These areas were labeled “bad top” on the source map, but similar areas were also unmined in the northern part of the mine, without the label. Other poor geologic conditions may have existed. The seam contained considerable bone coal and shale layers. Pyrite was present in the shale layers as well as in lenses and nodules in the coal seam.
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: 3,741,371
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Production Notes
Coal Report production (if available)
Sources of Data
| Microfilm, document 352107
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2-28-1953
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1:2400
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1:5131
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Final
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Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)
| Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation.
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| Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (Perry County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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| Mine notes (Perry County) - Mine type, shaft location, seam, depth, thickness, geologic problems.
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| Microfilm map, document 352107, reel 03138, frames 97 and 98 - Shaft locations, mine outline, mining method.
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| Microfilm map, document 352127, reel 03138, frames 133 and 134 - Geologic problems.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
Photographs
Notes
- ↑ The workings of Pinckneyville No. 5 were connected underground to the workings of the Service No. 6 Mine (mine index 634) and the boundary between the two mines is unclear.
- ↑ Also known as Interstate Coal Company, for at least some of the years when production was reported under Brewerton Coal Company.
