Mine Index 0187 Standard Oil Company of Indiana, Standard No. 1 Mine

Mine Index Number: 0187

Company Name:	Standard Oil Company of Indiana
Mine Name:	Standard No. 1 Mine
Start Date:	1917	End Date:	November 1923
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	1,225
Acres after map date:	40	General Area of mining acres shown:
The secondary source map for this mine is poor and boundaries between mines could not be distinguished. The total acres for this mine (mine index 0187), Carlinville No. 1 Mine (mine index 0069) and Old Calamity Mine (mine index 2912) total 1,225 acres.

Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)

Type	County	Township-Range	Section	Part Section

Main shaft

Macoupin

10N 7W

21

SW NE NE

Air shaft

Macoupin

10N 7W

21

NW SE NE

Geology

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

Herrin

263-300

2.5-4.0

8.0

6.0-6.5

RPP

Geological Problems Reported

The shale roof, which ranged from black laminated shale to massive light gray shale, required heavy timbering. The immediate roof was a massive black shale that was 3 inches to 5 feet thick. Above this shale was a limestone that ranged from 2 to 10 inches thick. Above this limestone was a soft, crumbly greenish-gray shale with little evidence of bedding, which was generally 3 feet thick. Above this was another limestone, which formed an excellent roof over part of the mine. In other places, 12 to 18 inches of coal was left to hold the roof, but where the coal was full of slips, most of the material up to the second limestone came down. The coal seam contained shale and charcoal in bands and lenses, rolls, pyrite bands and lenses, calcite and gypsum fracture fillings, and many small slips. The underclay floor ranged from 2 inches to 5 feet (or more) thick, and heaved very badly in abandoned rooms. There were many squeezes where rooms were driven wide under limestone top. One squeeze came up 4 feet in about 8 hours.

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

Standard Oil Company (add)	Standard No. 1 (add)	1917-1918	226,777

Standard Oil Company (add)	Standard B (add)	1918-1919	275,397

Standard Oil Company of Indiana (add)	Standard No. 1 (add)	1919-1923	2,292,865

Standard Oil Company of Indiana (add)	Standard No. 1 (add)	1923-1923	236,046

Total Production: 3,031,085

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

Microfilm, document 352546

12-1-1921

(unknown)

1:2754

Not final

WPA

7-1-1923

1:12000

1:57600

Secondary source

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation, depth, seam.

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

Mine notes (Macoupin County) - Mine type, shaft location, depth, thickness, geologic problems.

Microfilm map, document 352546, reel 03139, frames 281,282 - Shaft locations, mine outline, mining method.

WPA map, T10N-R7W - Shaft locations, mine outline.