Mine Index Number: 0102
| Company Name:
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La Salle County Carbon Coal Company
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| Mine Name:
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Cedar Point Mine or La Salle County No. 5 Mine
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| Start Date:
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1906
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End Date:
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April 1924
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| Type of Mine:
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Underground
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| Total acres shown:
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361
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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 (12 x 16 ft)
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La Salle
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32N 1E
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4
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NE SW SW
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| Air shaft
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La Salle
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32N 1E
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4
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NE SW SW
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Geology
| Colchester
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544-550
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3.33
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3.8
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3.5
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LW (old longwall)
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Geological Problems Reported
The roof of the Colchester Coal was about 18 feet of soapstone separated from the coal by 1 to 2 inches of dark bony shale. The seam had local dips or swales with over 5 feet of relief that made haulage difficult. The Colchester Coal also had lenses, balls and facings of pyrite, as well as calcite and gypsum fracture fillings.
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: 2,246,731
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Production Notes
Coal Report production (if available)
Sources of Data
| Microfilm, document 352411
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3-1924
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1:2400
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1:4137
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Final
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Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)
| Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation, seam, depth.
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| Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (La Salle County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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| Mine notes (La Salle County) - Mine type, shaft location, seam, depth, thickness, geologic problems.
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| Microfilm map, document 352411, reel 03139, frames 78 and 79 - Shaft locations, mine outline, mining method.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
Photographs
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