Mine Index Number: 0637
Accessible description: Mine Name and Data Summary
| Company Name:
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Darmstadt Coal Company
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| Mine Name:
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Darmstadt Mine
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| Start Date:
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1910
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End Date:
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March 1952
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| Type of Mine:
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Underground
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| Total acres shown:
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40
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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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Washington
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2S 5W
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30
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SW SW SW
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| Shaft Type |
County |
Township-Range |
Section |
Part Section
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| Air shaft
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Washington
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2S 5W
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30
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NW SW SW
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Geology
| Seam |
Depth (ft) |
Thickness Min |
Thickness max |
Thickness Ave. |
Mining Method
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| Herrin
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216
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6.5
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MRP
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Geological Problems Reported
The roof was a hard black shale that stayed up well. Little timbering was required in this mine. In one room, the black shale was only 1/8 inch thick, with limestone above. Concretions were present in the black shale in some areas. Pyrite was present in a clay band and in some of the banded portions of the coal. The blue band was present 16 inches above the floor. The mine was dry.
Production
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Mine Name
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Date
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Production (tons)
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Mine Name |
Date |
Production (tons)
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| Company |
Mine Name |
Date |
Production (tons)
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| Total Production: 198,672
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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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| State archive, IL_1811_01
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9-1-1952
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1:1200
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1:1200
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Final
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| Bibliography
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| Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation.
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| Bibliography
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| Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (Washington County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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| Bibliography
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| Mine notes (Washington County) - Mine type, shaft location, seam, depth, thickness, geologic problems.
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| Bibliography
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| Brinkman, G., 1968, This is Washington County; its first 150 years, 1818-1968, Sesquicentennial Committee of the Historical Society of Washington County, 96p. - Ownership (1910-1921).
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| Bibliography
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| State archive, IL_1811_01 - Shaft locations, mine outline, mining method.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
Photographs
Notes
- ↑ Production was not reported in 1922 for mines producing less than 10,000 tons.
- ↑ Idle 1946
