Mine Index Number: 0336
| Company Name:
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Lovington Coal Company
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| Mine Name:
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Lovington No. 1 Mine
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| Start Date:
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1908
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End Date:
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May 1924
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| Type of Mine:
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Underground
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| Total acres shown:
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323
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| Acres after map date:
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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 (9x18.5 ft)
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Moultrie
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15N 5E
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27
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SE SE NW
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| Air shaft
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Moultrie
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15N 5E
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27
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SE SE NW
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Geology
| Herrin
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900-920
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4.0
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9.5
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7.0-8.0
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RPP
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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
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Mine Name
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Date
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Production (tons)
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| Total Production: 2,032,236
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Production Notes
Coal Report production (if available)
Sources of Data
| Company map, 4103.M64 i5.1-1
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2-1924
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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, depth.
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| Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (Moultrie County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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| Mine notes (Moultrie County) - Mine type, shaft location and size, seam, depth, thickness.
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| Company map, ISGS map library, 4103.M64 i5.1-1 - Shaft locations, mine outline, mining method.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
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