Mine Index 0336 Lovington Coal Company, Lovington No. 1 Mine

Mine Index Number: 0336

Company Name:	Lovington Coal Company
Mine Name:	Lovington No. 1 Mine
Start Date:	1908	End Date:	May 1924
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	323
Acres after map date:		General Area of mining acres shown:

Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)

Type	County	Township-Range	Section	Part Section

Main shaft (9x18.5 ft)

Moultrie

15N 5E

27

SE SE NW

Air shaft

Moultrie

15N 5E

27

SE SE NW

Geology

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

Herrin

900-920

4.0

9.5

7.0-8.0

RPP

Geological Problems Reported

Gas was present at the active face of the workings. The immediate roof was 3 feet of black shale and above that was 8 to 12 feet of limestone cap rock. The black shale had some coal balls 18 inches in diameter or more. The roof was very good and gave very little trouble. The coal contained pyrite in horizontal and vertical streaks and numerous bands of bone coal and dirt. Calcium carbonate was present in the cleats. The coal was separated into three benches. The upper bench was hard and brittle with no conspicuous banding. The middle bench had many pyrite streaks and banded coal. The lower bench was below the blue band and was similar in appearance to the upper bench, hard and brittle. This lower bench ranged from 2 feet thick in the southern part of the mine to 2 inches in the northern part of the mine, where it was not mined but served as the floor. The underclay was12 feet thick. The greatest difficulty in mining came from squeezes in the floor clay, especially when it was wet. Normally, the mine was very dry.

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

Lovington Coal Company (add)	Lovington No. 1 (add)	1908-1924	2,001,128

Lovington Coal Company (add)	Lovington No. 1 (add)	1924-1924	31,108

Total Production: 2,032,236

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

Company map, 4103.M64 i5.1-1

2-1924

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 (Moultrie County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.

Mine notes (Moultrie County) - Mine type, shaft location and size, seam, depth, thickness.

Company map, ISGS map library, 4103.M64 i5.1-1 - Shaft locations, mine outline, mining method.