Mine Index 0205 Egyptian Coal and Mining Company, Meek No. 2 Mine

Mine Index Number: 0205

Company Name:	Egyptian Coal and Mining Company
Mine Name:	Meek No. 2 Mine
Start Date:	1904	End Date:	1928
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	117
Acres after map date:	115	General Area of mining acres shown:

Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)

Type	County	Township-Range	Section	Part Section

Main shaft

St. Clair

3S 6W

36

SE NE SW

Air shaft The mine is connected underground to White Oak Mine (mine index 3625), which made another place of egress for escapement.

St. Clair

3S 6W

36

SE NE SW

Geology

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

Herrin

183-210

5.0

7.0

6.5

MRP

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

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

T. M. Meeks (add)	Meeks (add)	1904-1912	150,573 Idle 1909

Egyptian Coal and Mining Company (add)	Meeks No. 2The 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. (add)	1912-1920 Idle 1915	481,181

Egyptian Coal and Mining Company (add)	Meeks No. 2 (add)	1920-1928	671,426 Production after map date

Total Production: 1,303,180

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

State archive, IL_122_01

8-27-1920

1:2400

1:2400

Not final

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation.

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

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

State archive, IL_122_01 - Shaft locations, mine outline, mining method.