Mine Index 0189 Staunton Mine Seven, Inc., Staunton No. 7 Mine

Mine Index Number: 0189

Company Name:	Staunton Mine Seven, Inc.
Mine Name:	Staunton No. 7 Mine
Start Date:	1881	End Date:	February 1952
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	3,521
Acres after map date:		General Area of mining acres shown:
This mine is connected underground to Bell and Zoller No. 15 (mine index 0068) and Consolidated No. 14 Mine (mine index 0190).

Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)

Type	County	Township-Range	Section	Part Section

Main shaft

Macoupin

7N 6W

21

SW SW SE

Air shaft

Macoupin

7N 6W

21

SE SW SE

Geology

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

Herrin

350-355

5.0

7.5-8.0

6.67-7.5

RPP

Geological Problems Reported

Occasional rolls were present. The roof was dark gray or black shale with 6 to 24 inches of clod above it. A 3-inch band of limestone occurred above the clod, separated from the main limestone caprock by a 1-inch clay seam. Some of the shale was severely fractured and contained many slips, making a treacherous roof. Some rooms had to be abandoned due to inability to keep the roof up. The 1935 source map showed bad top and squeezed areas in the NE of section 28 and NW of section 27, bad top in NW and SW of section 22, and caved areas in SW section 22 and NE of section 21 (all T7N-R6W). This mine was the site of one of the earliest experiments in roof bolting in 1947, which proved very effective. The coal contained pyrite lenses (up to 1 inch wide) and calcite and gypsum stringers above the blue band.

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

Williamson, Townsend and Company (add)	Williamson and Townsend (add)	1881-1882	18,000

Ellsworth Coal Company (add)	Ellsworth No. 7 (add)	1882-1886	131,249

Consolidated Coal Company of St. Louis (add)	Consolidated No. 7 (add)	1886-1896	1,246,276

B. Hebenstreit (add)	Consolidated No. 7 (add)	1896-1897	101,035

Consolidated Coal Company of St. Louis (add)	Consolidated No. 7 (add)	1897-1951 Idle 1911-1913, 1931-1934	17,302,596

Bell and Zoller Coal and Mining Company (add)	Bell and Zoller No. 7 (add)	1951-1951	140,025

Staunton Mine Seven, Inc. (add)	Staunton No. 7 (add)	1951-1952	33,572

Total Production: 18,972,753

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

State archive, IL_727_03

2-19-1952

1:4800

1:4800

Final

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation.

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

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

Stae archive, IL_727_03 - Shaft locations, mine outline, mining method.

State archive, IL_727_03 - Geologic problems.