Mine Index Number: 0095
Accessible description: Mine Name and Data Summary
| Company Name:
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Schaffer Brothers
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| Mine Name:
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Schaffer No. 4 Mine
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| Start Date:
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1898
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End Date:
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1928
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| Type of Mine:
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Underground
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| Total acres shown:
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None
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| Production Indicated Acres:
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General Area of mining acres shown:
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23
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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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| Shaft Type |
County |
Township-Range |
Section |
Part Section
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| Main slope
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Vermilion
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19N 11W
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7
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NW NW SW
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Geology
| Seam |
Depth (ft) |
Thickness Min |
Thickness max |
Thickness Ave. |
Mining Method
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| Danville
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20-360
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1.5
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9.0
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5.5-6.0
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RP
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Geological Problems Reported
The roof was generally very good, but when the rolls reduced the coal to less than 5 feet thick, the roof couldn’t be held up. Roof and floor rolls were present in the seam, the floor rolls were more common than those from the roof. The underclay floor contained coal lenses and heaved readily as soon as it got wet. This had only a minor effect on mining.
Production
| Company
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Mine Name
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Date
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Production (tons)
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| Company |
Mine Name |
Date |
Production (tons)
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| Total Production: 112,360
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Production Notes
Coal Report production (if available)
Sources of Data
| Source Map |
Map Date |
Original Scale |
Digitized Scale |
Map Type
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| ISGS mine notes
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Undated
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(text only)
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1:24000 [3]
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Undated
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| Bibliography
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| Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation, seam, depth.
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| Bibliography
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| Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (Vermilion County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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| Bibliography
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| Mine notes (Vermilion County) - Mine type, slope location, seam, depth, thickness, geologic problems.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
Photographs
Notes
- ↑ Reported closed or abandoned in the 1916 Coal Report; re-opened 1917
- ↑ Production not reported in 1922 for mines producing less than 10,000 tons; production higher than shown
- ↑ Point plotted onto 1:24,000 USGS topographic map and digitized.
