Mine Index Number: 0205
| Company Name:
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Egyptian Coal and Mining Company
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| Mine Name:
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Meek No. 2 Mine
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| Start Date:
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1904
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End Date:
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1928
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| Type of Mine:
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Underground
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| Total acres shown:
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117
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| Acres after map date:
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115
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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
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St. Clair
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3S 6W
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36
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SE NE SW
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| Air shaft [1]
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St. Clair
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3S 6W
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36
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SE NE SW
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Geology
| Herrin
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183-210
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5.0
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7.0
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6.5
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MRP
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Geological Problems Reported
The roof was a type of shale referred to as “slate”. The roof was good and only came down with the coal in widely scattered parts of the mine. The shale ranged from 0.5 inches to 3 feet thick. Up to 12 feet of limestone was above the shale. Minor slips occurred in the shale, and these areas of slip made an unstable roof. Streaks and lenses of pyrite were present through the coal bed. The blue band consisted of 0.75 to 1 inch of shale that was about 16 inches above the floor. The blue band adhered to the coal, and generally 1 inch of coal above and below the blue band was left in the mine
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: 1,303,180
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Production Notes
Coal Report production (if available)
Sources of Data
| State archive, IL_122_01
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8-27-1920
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1:2400
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1:2400
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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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| Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (St. Clair County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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| Mine notes (St. Clair County) - Mine type, shaft location, seam, depth, thickness, geologic problems.
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| State archive, IL_122_01 - Shaft locations, mine outline, mining method.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
![[[:Meeks No. 2|Meeks No. 2]]](https://wikiimage.isgs.illinois.edu/ilmines/st_clair/thumbnails/m0205_IL_122_01_th.jpg) These files may not be true to scale and are not georgistered.
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Map Type:
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State Archive
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| Map ID:
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IL_122_01
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| Company:
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Egyptian Coal and Mining Company
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| Mine Name:
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Meeks No. 2
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| Caption:
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| Map Date:
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08/27/1920
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| Map Status:
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Not Final
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| Image Credit:
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| Note:
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Also used for the outline of mine indexes 3625/3627.
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| More Info:
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M0205 IL 122 01
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| Full Res Download:These files are true to scale and most are georegistered for gis software. These files may be a very large (>1GB) download!
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https://wikiimage.isgs.illinois.edu/ilmines/st clair/m0205 IL 122 01.zip
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Photographs
Notes
- ↑ The mine is connected underground to White Oak Mine (mine index 3625), which made another place of egress for escapement.
- ↑ Idle 1909
- ↑ The mine was listed in the Coal Reports as No. 2 in 1913 & 1914, and No. 1 from 1923 to 1925. No designation was noted in the other years.
- ↑ Idle 1915
- ↑ Production after map date
