Mine Index Number: 0613
| Company Name:
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Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad
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| Mine Name:
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Dodd Mine
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| Start Date:
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1915
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End Date:
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July 1944
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| Type of Mine:
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Underground
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| Total acres shown:
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160
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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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Randolph
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5S 6W
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1
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NE SE SW
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| Air shaft (6 x 8 feet)
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Randolph
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5S 6W
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1
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NW SW NE
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| Air shaft A microfilm image of a 1938 map shows a “Fan” and what looks like a shaft symbol. The text and symbol were not transferred to the 1944 map base, and the rooms and pillars in the vicinity are shown with a dashed line, indicating the surveying engineer did not enter or survey that part of the mine, but traced it from an earlier version of the map. The area is quite near the area labeled “Bad Top” on the 1944 source map.
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Randolph
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5S 6W
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1
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NE SE NW
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Geology
| Herrin
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96-115
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5.5
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6.5
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5.67
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MRP
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Geological Problems Reported
The source map showed an area of bad top that limited expansion. This area was in E ½ NW 1-T5S-R6W. The roof consisted of about 6 feet of limestone above an immediate roof of black shale, draw slate and white top. The draw slate was up to 13 inches thick and was present over one-third of the mine. The material between the coal and limestone varied from 1 inch to 5 feet; in no part of the mine was the limestone observed resting directly on the coal. A few slips were reported, with pyrite and clay in the slip planes. The blue band was 1.0 to 2.0 inches thick, about 4 inches above the floor. The underclay was soft and varied from 6 to 24 inches thick. No heaving was reported.
Production
| Company
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Mine Name
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Date
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Production (tons)
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| George Wilson
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Boyd
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1915-1931 Mines producing less than 1,000 tons per year in 1930 & 1931 were not reported. Production is not known for 1930 and 1931.
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91,647
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| Total Production: 1,121,593
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Production Notes
Coal Report production (if available)
Sources of Data
| Microfilm, document 353339
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9-25-1944
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1:2400
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1:3972
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Final
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| Microfilm, document 353344
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4-1938
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1:1200
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1:2565
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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.
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| Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (Randolph County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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| Mine notes (Randolph County) - Mine type, shaft location, seam, depth, thickness, geologic problems.
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| Microfilm map, document 353339, reel 03142, frames 322 & 323 - Shaft location, mine outline, mining method, geologic problems.
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| Microfilm map, document 353344, reel 03142, frame 334 - Air shaft location.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
Photographs
