Mine Index 0124 Peabody Coal Company, Peabody No. 47 Mine

Mine Index Number: 0124

Company Name:	Peabody Coal Company
Mine Name:	Peabody No. 47 Mine
Start Date:	1916	End Date:	April 1951
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	4,595
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

Saline

8S 5E

27

SE SE SW

Air shaft

Saline

8S 5E

27

NE SE SW

Geology

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

Springfield

416-420

4.5

8.0

4.67-6.0

RPP

Geological Problems Reported

A 1921 gas explosion killed 12 miners, and a 1920 gas explosion killed 1 man. Faults were present throughout the mine, most trending northwest-southeast. Some halted mine expansion. Others were mined through, but the amounts of displacement were not noted on the source map. Above the coal was a shale that made a competent roof, except during humid summer when the shale “sweated” and slabbed off, producing many falls. The northernmost part of the mine had several areas identified as bad top. This same area was also shown on the source map to have a two-foot split of rock in the middle of the coal. In the southern part of the mine, an area was labeled ‘squeeze’. Some pyrite concretions and lenses were found in the coal. The floor, which was 2 to 3 feet of shale, heaved some, but was underlain by hard limestone.

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

Harrisburg Colliery Company (add)	Harco (add)	1916-1923Idle 1921	2,256,378

Saline County Coal Corporation (add)	Saline County No. 7 (add)	1923-1927	2,865,728

Saline County Coal Corporation (add)	Saline County No. 47 (add)	1928-1928	897,606

Peabody Coal Company (add)	Peabody No. 47 (add)	1929-1951	14,991,905

Total Production: 21,011,617

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

State archive, IL_2590

4-27-1951

1:12000

1:12000

Final

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

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

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

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

State archive, IL_2590 - Shaft locations, mine outline, mining method, depth, geologic problems.