Mine Index 0282 Mt. Olive Coal Company, Hoosier Mine

Mine Index Number: 0282

Company Name:	Mt. Olive Coal Company
Mine Name:	Hoosier Mine
Start Date:	1887	End Date:	December 1940
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	1,608
Acres after map date:	9	General Area of mining acres shown:

Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)

Type	County	Township-Range	Section	Part Section

Main shaft

Macoupin

7N 6W

1

NW NE NW

Air shaft

Macoupin

7N 6W

1

NW NE NW

Geology

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

Herrin

420-435

7.5-8.4

RPP

Geological Problems Reported

The roof conditions were generally considered excellent. Some areas of the mine had a limestone roof, and bosses protruded 6 to 8 inches down into the coal. Radiating slips surrounded these protrusions, giving a pinwheel effect. In other areas, the roof was 18 inches of black shale that was difficult to keep up. The lower half was typically sheety and tough, but the upper half was not tough or sheety and disintegrated on short exposure, frequently allowing all the black shale to come down. The floor was about 6 feet of fire clay, which was soft and heaved. This made it difficult to close off entries. A gob and pillar fire was reported in 1950 that had been burning since about 1900. The firewall was shifted out from the fire, but adjacent entries were full of smoke, heat and sulfur. The mine was eventually closed due to this fire.

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

Consolidated Coal and Coke Company of Mt. Olive (add)	Mt. Olive (add)	1887-1889	19,210

Mt. Olive Coal Company (add)	Mt. Olive (add)	1889-1894	788,413

Madison Coal Corporation (add)	Madison No. 5 (add)	1894-1915	4,753,959

Mt. Olive Coal Company (add)	Mt. Olive No. 5 (add)	1915-1920	1,259,782

Madison Coal Corporation (add)	Madison No. 5 (add)	1920-1934 Idle 1932 and 1933	3,047,920

Mt. Olive Coal Company (add)	Hoosier (add)	1934-1940	636,746

Mt. Olive Coal Company (add)	Hoosier (add)	1940-1940	60,118 Production after map date

Total Production: 10,566,148

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

State archive, IL_1135_01

5-1-1940

1:2400

1:2400

Not final (incomplete)

Company, 4103.M34 i5.1-10

4-21-1931

1:2400

1:2400

Not final

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

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

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

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

State archive, IL_1135_01 - Mine outline (east side of mine).

Company map, ISGS map library, 4103.M34 i5.1-10 - Shaft locations, mine outline, mining method.