Mine Index Number: 0779
| Company Name:
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Valley View Coal Company
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| Mine Name:
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Valley View Mine
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| Start Date:
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1919
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End Date:
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1928
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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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46
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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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Rock Island
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17N 1W
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25
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NW NW SW
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Geology
| Rock Island
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89
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3.8
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5.0
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4.5
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Geological Problems Reported
Clay slips were common in the caprock. This cut the roof into blocks that fell readily and required heavy timbering. The roof changed over to a massive black shale at some distance from the shaft. The shale made a good roof. In some areas of the mine, coal balls were present, but they did not tend to fall. Little timbering was necessary in either the shale roof or the coal ball areas.
Production
| Company
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Mine Name
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Date
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Production (tons)
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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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(text only)
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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.
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| Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (Rock Island County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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| Mine notes (Rock Island County) - Mine type, shaft location, seam, depth, thickness, geologic problems.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
Photographs
Notes
- ↑ The company was listed in the Coal Reports 11 times. In six of those listings, the company name was given as Valley View Coal Company, and in five listings, the company name was shown as Valley Vein Coal Company. Sackville and Wynn were the owners or operators of the Valley View Coal Company.
- ↑ The mine location was plotted on a 1:24000 USGS topographic map from the mine location description and digitized.
