Mine Index Number: 0358
Accessible description: Mine Name and Data Summary
| Company Name:
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United Coal Company
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| Mine Name:
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Illinois Zinc No. 3 Mine
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| Start Date:
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1879
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End Date:
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February 1947
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| Type of Mine:
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Underground
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| Total acres shown:
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948
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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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| Shaft Type |
County |
Township-Range |
Section |
Part Section
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| Main shaft
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La Salle
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33N 1E
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16
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SW SE SW
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| Shaft Type |
County |
Township-Range |
Section |
Part Section
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| Escape shaft
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La Salle
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33N 1E
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16
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SW SE SW
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Geology
| Seam |
Depth (ft) |
Thickness Min |
Thickness max |
Thickness Ave. |
Mining Method
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| Colchester
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330-360
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3.0
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4.0
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3.5
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LW (old longwall)
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Geological Problems Reported
The roof varied from soapstone to black shale. The black shale contained concretions. The coal contained pyrite so that very few places in the mine were without some pyrite in the seam.
Production
| Company
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Mine Name
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Date
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Production (tons)
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| Company |
Mine Name |
Date |
Production (tons)
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| Total Production: 4,168,153
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Production Notes
Coal Report production (if available)
Sources of Data
| Source Map |
Map Date |
Original Scale |
Digitized Scale |
Map Type
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| Microfilm, document 352408
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3-30-1945
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1:2400
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1:4634
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Not final[2]
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| Source Map |
Map Date |
Original Scale |
Digitized Scale |
Map Type
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| Microfilm, document 352438
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5-20-1930
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1:2400
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1:4634
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Secondary source
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| Source Map |
Map Date |
Original Scale |
Digitized Scale |
Map Type
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| ISGS mined-out area map
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2006
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1:100000
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1:100000
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Secondary source
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| Bibliography
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| Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation, depth.
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| Bibliography
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| Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (La Salle County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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| Bibliography
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| Mine notes (La Salle County) - Mine type, shaft location, seam, thickness, geologic problems.
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| Bibliography
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| Bedford, Willam T., 1911, Twentieth Anniversary Souvenir Edition; The La Salle Tribune 1891-1911, printed & published at LaSalle, Illinois, re-published by LaSalle County Genealogy Guild, 1996, 206p. - Years of operation.
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| Bibliography
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| Microfilm map, document 352408, reel 03139, frames 70-71 - Shaft locations, mine outline, mining method.
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| Bibliography
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| Microfilm map, document 352438, reel 03139, frames 113-114, map of Union Mine (mine index 0755) - Mine outline (eastern side).
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| Bibliography
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| ISGS mined-out area map, La Salle County - Mine outline (northern and western parts).
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
Photographs
Notes
- ↑ Production before July 1881 is unknown
- ↑ The map is not final and incomplete. The earliest survey date shown on this source map is 8-1935 and a small area is labeled “stopped 1934". Most of this mine’s area is not included on the company source map.
