Mine Index Number: 0419
| Company Name:
|
Truax Traer Coal Company
|
| Mine Name:
|
Truax Traer No. 1 Mine
|
| Start Date:
|
1923
|
End Date:
|
June 1935
|
| Type of Mine:
|
Surface
|
| Total acres shown:
|
2,176 The area mined is much larger than expected for the reported production. The reported production would account for approximately 600 acres. The area shown on the accompanying maps for the Truax-Traer No. 1 Mine may have been mined by Burning Star Surface Mine (mine index 684).
|
| Acres after map date:
|
|
General Area of mining acres shown:
|
|
|
|
Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)
| Type
|
County
|
Township-Range
|
Section
|
Part Section
|
| Tipple
|
Jackson
|
7S 1W
|
18
|
SW NE SW
|
| Herrin Coal pit
|
Jackson
|
7S 1W
|
18
|
SE NW SW (1923-1927)
|
| Springfield Coal pit
|
Jackson
|
8S 1W
|
7
|
SE NW SW (1928-1936)
|
| Herrin Coal pit
|
Jackson
|
7S 2W
|
13
|
|
| Springfield Coal pit
|
Jackson
|
7S 2W
|
23 and 35
|
|
Geology
| Herrin (1923-1927)
|
27
|
6.5
|
6.8
|
6.6
|
Surface
|
Geological Problems Reported
The overburden was about 15 feet of surficial materials, underlain by 3 to 6 feet of limestone, with 1 to 8 feet of soft gray shale directly over the coal. Some minor faults were seen, with only slight displacement of the beds. Impurities in the seam included clay lenses, bony coal bands, and pyrite bands. A few of the pyrite bands were more or less continuous, and some were up to 0.5 inches thick. Vertical fractures were filled with calcite facings. The blue band and its underside had pyrite lenses in bands or as laminations. Pyrite was more common as a filling of networks of vertical veinlets. These networks sometimes occurred as commonly as every 2 feet in horizontal spacing across an area of the pit. Clay bands were seen, but were not common in the pits.
Production
| Company
|
Mine Name
|
Date
|
Production (tons)
|
Production Notes
Coal Report production (if available)
Sources of Data
| ISGS map library, 4103.J31 i5.1-15
|
7-24-1950
|
1:4800
|
1:4800
|
Final
|
| ISGS map library, 4103.J31 i5.1-34
|
1966
|
1:57600
|
1:57600
|
Secondary source
|
| Company, 1-32-18
|
2-16-1926
|
Unknown
|
Unknown The 1926 company map was used to locate the tipple on the 1950 company map. Consequently, the 1926 company map was not scanned and georegistered.
|
Not final
|
| USGS topographic map, Vergennes Quadrangle
|
1968
|
1:24000
|
1:24000
|
Secondary source
|
Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)
| Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation.
|
| Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (Jackson County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
|
| Mine notes (Jackson County) - Mine type, mine location, seam, depth, thickness, geologic problems.
|
| ISGS map library, 4103.J31 i5.1-15, map of Burning Star Mine (mine index 684) - Mine outline, mining method.
|
| ISGS map library, 4103.J31 i5.1-34, compilation mined-out area map - Mine outline (13-T7S-R2W), seams.
|
| Company map, Coal Section files, 1-32-18 - Tipple location.
|
| USGS 7.5-minute topographic map, Vergennes Quadrangle, 1968 - Mine outline (northern & western pits).
|
Mine Notes
Mine Images
Photographs
Additional Notes
