Mine Index Number: 0645
| Company Name:
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Star Coal Company
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| Mine Name:
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Star No. 1 Mine
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| Start Date:
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1885
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End Date:
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1894
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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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190
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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[1]
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La Salle
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31N 3E
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22
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SW SE NW
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Geology
| Colchester
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LW (old longwall)
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Geological Problems Reported
The mine flooded in May 1893 from surface water of Moon Creek coming in through breaks that extended from the workings to the surface.
Production
| Company
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Mine Name
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Date
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Production (tons)
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| Total Production: 950,923
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Production Notes
Coal Report production (if available)
Sources of Data
| Mine notes
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Undated
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1:62500
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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, geologic problems.
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| Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (La Salle County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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| Mine notes (La Salle County) - Shaft location, seam.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
Photographs
Notes
- ↑ The 1889 Coal Report stated an air shaft was constructed on the eastern side of the mine. The western side was ventilated through Scott’s old mine shaft (mine index 5675). The air shaft is not shown on the accompanying map because of the lack of a source map for this mine.
- ↑ The mine location was plotted on a 1:24000 USGS topograph map from the mine location description and digitized.
