Mine Index Number: 0452
| Company Name:
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Calhoun Clay Products Company
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| Mine Name:
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Calhoun Mine
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| Start Date:
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1883
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End Date:
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1912
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| Type of Mine:
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Underground
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| Total acres shown:
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None
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| Production Indicated Acres:
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50
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General Area of mining acres shown:
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|
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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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| Drift
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Calhoun
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14S 2W
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1
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N ½
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| Processing plant
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Calhoun
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14S 1W
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31 [1]
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Geology
| Colchester
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60
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|
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2.25-2.5
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RP
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Geological Problems Reported
Production
| Company
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Mine Name
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Date
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Production (tons)
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Production Notes
Coal Report production (if available)
Sources of Data
| ISGS field notes (H. R. Wanless)
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11-24-1930
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(text only)
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1:24000 [2]
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Secondary source
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Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)
| Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation, mine type, depth, thickness, mining method.
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| Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (Calhoun County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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| Mine notes (Calhoun County) - Mine type, mine location, seam, depth, thickness.
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| ISGS field notes (Calhoun County) - Mine location, depth.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
Photographs
Notes
- ↑ This location was formerly thought to be a coal mine (mine index 4559, now deleted). No point is shown on the accompanying map for the processing plant. The coal production was used in firing the bricks, with the clay and the clean, gritless shale being the primary product of the mine. The processing plant was most likely concerned with the clay product and the forming of the bricks (see the non-coal mines at the back of this report).
- ↑ The mine location was plotted on a 1:24000 USGS topographic map from the mine location description and digitized.
