Mine Index 0637 Darmstadt Coal Company, Darmstadt Mine

Mine Index Number: 0637

Company Name:	Darmstadt Coal Company
Mine Name:	Darmstadt Mine
Start Date:	1910	End Date:	March 1952
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	40
Acres after map date:		General Area of mining acres shown:

Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)

Type	County	Township-Range	Section	Part Section

Main shaft

Washington

2S 5W

30

SW SW SW

Air shaft

Washington

2S 5W

30

NW SW SW

Geology

		Thickness (ft)
Seam	Depth (ft)	Min	Max	Ave	Mining Method

Herrin

216

6.5

MRP

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

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

Kirchhalfer and Knecht (add)	Darmstadt (add)	1910-1911	2,807

P. Laumbattus (add)	Darmstadt (add)	1911-1912	1,800

Martin Brothers (add)	Darmstadt (add)	1912-1918	17,428

George Pflaster (add)	Darmstadt (add)	1918-1920	4,165

Walter Hoover (add)	Darmstadt (add)	1920-1921	3,712

Darmstadt Coal Company (add)	Darmstadt (add)	1921-1930 Production was not reported in 1922 for mines producing less than 10,000 tons.	30,197

August Jansen (add)	Jansen (add)	1931-1932	7,000

Darmstadt Coal Company (add)	Darmstadt (add)	1933-1949 Idle 1946	109,925

Schneidewind Coal Company (add)	Schneidewind (add)	1949-1949	1,099

Darmstadt Coal Company (add)	Darmstadt (add)	1950-1952	20,539

Total Production: 198,672

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

State archive, IL_1811_01

9-1-1952

1:1200

1:1200

Final

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation.

Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (Washington County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.

Mine notes (Washington County) - Mine type, shaft location, seam, depth, thickness, geologic problems.

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).

State archive, IL_1811_01 - Shaft locations, mine outline, mining method.