Mine Index 0090 Pinckneyville Mining Company, Pinckneyville No. 5 Mine

Mine Index Number: 0090

Company Name:	Pinckneyville Mining Company
Mine Name:	Pinckneyville No. 5 Mine
Start Date:	1909	End Date:	November 1951
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	598
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 shaftThe 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.

Perry

5S 3W

23

SE NW NE

Air shaft

Perry

5S 3W

23

SE NW NE

Geology

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

Herrin

135-149

6.5

8.5

7.0

MRP

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

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

Ritchey Coal Company (add)	Ritchey (add)	1909-1920	1,457,475

Southern Gem Coal Corporation (add)	Southern Gem No. 5 (add)	1920-1926	750,107

Brewerton Coal Company Also known as Interstate Coal Company, for at least some of the years when production was reported under Brewerton Coal Company. (add)	Brewerton No. 45 (add)	1927-1933	432,750

Briar Hill Coal Mining Company (add)	Brewerton No. 45 (add)	1934-1936	103,662

Pinckneyville Mining Company (add)	Pinckneyville No. 5 (add)	1937-1951	997,377

Total Production: 3,741,371

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

Microfilm, document 352107

2-28-1953

1:2400

1:5131

Final

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation.

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

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

Microfilm map, document 352107, reel 03138, frames 97 and 98 - Shaft locations, mine outline, mining method.

Microfilm map, document 352127, reel 03138, frames 133 and 134 - Geologic problems.