Mine Index 0175 Vaughn Coal Company, Interstate Victory No. 43 Mine

Mine Index Number: 0175

Company Name:	Vaughn Coal Company
Mine Name:	Interstate Victory No. 43 Mine
Start Date:	1917	End Date:	December 1946
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	134
Acres after map date:	6	General Area of mining acres shown:

Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)

Type	County	Township-Range	Section	Part Section

Main shaft

Perry

4S 1W

20

NE SE SE

Air shaft

Perry

4S 1W

20

SE SE SE

Geology

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

Herrin

237-240

5.0

6.58

5.67

MRP

Geological Problems Reported

Some slips and rolls were encountered. All the faults were small but some extended down into the coal. The rolls were common within 150 feet of the shaft, and were associated with concretions in the roof shale. The roof was very difficult to keep up in the north-south entries, while the roof in the east-west entries held much better. The Du Quoin Anticline is about 10 miles northeast of the mine, and the regional stresses may have caused the roof problems. Limestone, up to 8 feet thick, was the cap rock in this mine. Between the coal and the limestone was a dark shale that occasionally pinched out completely. The coal was thicker east of the shaft than west of the shaft. Pyrite was present in patchy spots, 5 to 9 inches above the underclay, generally in lenses. This pyrite was easily rejected in the mine, by tapping it free from the coal.

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

Victory Collieries Company (add)	Victory No. 1 (add)	1917-1923	322,505

Chicago Fuel Company (add)	Chicago Fuel No. 3 (add)	1923-1927Idle 1925 and 1927	29,894

Tamaroa Coal Company (add)	Tamaroa No. 43 (add)	1928-1935	32,007

Tamaroa Fuel Company (add)	Tamaroa No. 43 (add)	1935-1936	3,221

Home Coal Company (add)	Tamaroa No. 43 (add)	1937-1939	69,664

Blanchard Coal Company (add)	Interstate Victory No. 43 (add)	1940-1945	221,753

Blanchard Coal Company (add)	Interstate Victory No. 43 (add)	1944-1945	29,397Production after map date

Vaughn Coal Company (add)	Interstate Victory No. 43 (add)	1946-1946	961Production after map date

Total Production: 709,402

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

Microfilm, document 352130

12-16-1944

1:2400

1:3972

Not 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 locations, seam, depth, thickness, geologic problems.

Microfilm map, document 352130, reel 03138, frames 137 and 138 - Shaft locations, mine outline, mining method.