Mine Index Number: 0740
| Company Name:
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Astoria Woodland Coal Company
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| Mine Name:
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A Mine
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| Start Date:
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1900
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End Date:
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1910
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| Type of Mine:
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Underground
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| Total acres shown:
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102
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| Production Indicated Acres:
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60
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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 (12 x 6 ft)
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Fulton
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3N 2E
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19
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SE NE NW
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Geology
| Springfield
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53
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4.0
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6.5
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5.5
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RP
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Geological Problems Reported
The roof consisted of over 3 feet of black shale with large balls of iron pyrite. The top coal was dark, soft, and often broken. No faults were seen, but clay dikes were common, some displacing the coal up to 18 inches. Gypsum was common in the mine, generally seen as a 1/4 to ½ inch lens that was 6 to 7 inches long. In the upper third of the coal seam, a 2 to 3 inch thick cannel coal was noted. The clay dikes were exceptionally large, quite frequent in occurrence, and often ran through the entire seam thickness. One was observed to be 12 feetlong and 4 feet wide.
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: 243,256
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Production Notes
Coal Report production (if available)
Sources of Data
| Mine notes (Jon A. Udden)
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9-22-1909
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1:62500
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1:62500
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Secondary source
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| Federal Land Bank Report
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4-20-1933
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1:124800
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1:124800
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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.
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| Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (Fulton County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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| Mine notes (Fulton County) - Mine type, seam, depth, thickness, mining method, geologic problems.
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| Microfilm map, document 351418, reel 03136, frame 53 - Shaft locations, mine outline, mining method.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
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