Mine Index Number: 0426
| Company Name:
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Comet Coal Company
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| Mine Name:
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Comet Mine
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| Start Date:
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1919
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End Date:
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October 1957
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| Type of Mine:
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Underground
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| Total acres shown:
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100 Production indicates 155 acres were mined.
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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
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Gallatin
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9S 8E
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16
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SW NW NW
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| Air shaft
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Gallatin
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9S 8E
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16
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NW SW NW
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Geology
| Springfield
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130-140
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4.5
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5.0
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4.58
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MRP
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Geological Problems Reported
The field notes indicate the coal dipped to the south (4 feet drop in 600 horizontal feet)
and then rose again. Water problems were noted in the southernmost portion of the mine, and the roof had rolls or horsebacks at that location that may have been the source of the water. Mining advance was halted on the eastern side of the mine by a “rock wall” that may have been a sandstone channel, because water entered from the roof at this location. The roof was draw slate. There were concretions present in the roof, and they were most common where the draw slate was absent. The coal thickness varied throughout the mine. Many pyrite lenses and veinlets existed in the coal, as well as calcite facings. Floor heaving was noted during mining, but may not have hindered mining to a great extent.
Production
| Company
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Mine Name
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Date
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Production (tons)
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| Pekin Coal Company A microfilm map (document 351546, reel 03136, frames 313 and 314, dated May 1957) indicates the owners or managers are Oak Hill Coal Company. Production was not listed under the Oak Hill name in the Coal Report.
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Knickerbocker
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1956-1957
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6,400
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| Total Production: 643,535
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Production Notes
Coal Report production (if available)
Sources of Data
| Microfilm, document 351544
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4-16-1958
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1:1200
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1:2152
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Final
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Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)
| Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation.
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| Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (Gallatin County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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| Mine notes (Gallatin County) - Mine type, shaft location, seam, depth, thickness, geologic problems.
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| ISGS field notes (Gallatin County) - Shaft location, depth, geologic problems.
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| Microfilm map, document 351544, reel 03136, frames 309 and 310 - Shaft locations, mine outline, mining method.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
Photographs
