Mine Index 0258 Edward Griffiths, Griffiths Mine

Mine Index Number: 0258

Company Name:	Edward Griffiths
Mine Name:	Griffiths Mine
Start Date:	1873	End Date:	1916
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	None
Production Indicated Acres:	16	General Area of mining acres shown:

Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)

Type	County	Township-Range	Section	Part Section

Main drift (1885-1894)

Greene

12N 11W

30

SE NW

Shaft (1894-1916)

Greene

12N 11W

30

SE NW

Geology

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

Colchester

28-42 (drift), 35-60 (shaft)

2.2

3.0

2.5

RP

Geological Problems Reported

A fault was present near the shaft bottom and was encountered in the workings. The fault extended 500 feet to the northwest and 160 feet southeast of the shaft bottom, where the fault changed course to nearly north-south. The coal was free of horsebacks or banding within the seam. The roof was black shale with pyrite concretions. Clod was sometimes as much as 3 feet thick, with a 2.0 to 4.5 foot thick limestone above the clod. The underclay was 12 feet thick.

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

E. Griffiths (add)	Griffiths (add)	circa 1873	unknown The area was shown as mined on the 1873 Greene County atlas, but operators between 1873 and the 1886 Coal Report could not be identified, and production and years of operation are not known. A polygon was constructed to include the mine shown on the atlas.

John Griffiths (add)	Griffiths (add)	1885-1892	6,656

Edward Griffith (add)	Griffith (add)	1892-1893	1,020

John Griffiths (add)	Griffiths (add)	1893-1894	960

Griffiths & Sons (add)	Griffiths (add)	1895-1897	2,240

Edward Griffiths (add)	Griffiths (add)	1897-1916 Idle 1907-1912	25,433

Total Production: 36,309

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

Mine notes

1937

1:62500

1:62500

Secondary source

Atlas map of Greene County, Illinois

1873

Unknown

1:24000

Secondary source

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation.

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

Mine notes (Greene County) - Mine type, drift & shaft locations, depth, thickness, mining method, geologic problems.

Andreas, L. &. C., 1873, Atlas map of Greene County, Illinois. Davenport, Iowa: Andreas, Lyter & Co. [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2006628620/. - Ownership, years of operation, general area of mining.