Mine Index Number: 0182
| Company Name:
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Whip Coal Company
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| Mine Name:
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Whip Mine
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| Start Date:
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1901
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End Date:
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March 1945
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| Type of Mine:
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Underground
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| Total acres shown:
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194 [1]
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| Acres after map date:
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21
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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 [2]
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Perry
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6S 4W
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5
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NW NE SE
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| Air shaft
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Perry
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6S 4W
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5
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NW NE SE
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Geology
| Herrin
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106
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5.0
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7.0
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6.0
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MRP
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Geological Problems Reported
The roof was 3 feet of white top with up to 3 feet of black shale above. A 6 foot limestone cap rock was above the shale. In several places, the limestone had protrusions almost down to the blue band. The coal contained pyrite, charcoal, clay, shale and black jack (hard charcoal) impurities. The blue band varied from 0 to 2 inches thick and was about 6 inches above the floor. The underclay heaved when wet, but the mine was generally dry. The fire clay contained pyrite nodules that made undercutting difficult.
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: 1,180,583
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Production Notes
Coal Report production (if available)
Sources of Data
| Microfilm, document 352088
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11-1941
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1:2400
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1:5296
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Not final
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Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)
| Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation.
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| Mine notes (Perry County) - Mine type, shaft location, seam, depth, thickness, geologic problems.
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| Microfilm map, document 352088, reel 03138, frame 69 - Shaft locations, mine outline, mining method.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
Photographs
Notes
- ↑ General area of mining shades have been added where later operators found voids.
- ↑ An old slope (not discernible on source maps) caved in and a shaft was constructed before 1907.
- ↑ Idle 1924 and 1927-1933
- ↑ Production after map date
- ↑ Idle 1943
- ↑ Production after map date
- ↑ Production after map date
- ↑ Production after map date
