Mine Index Number: 0875
| Company Name:
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Herod Mining Corporation
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| Mine Name:
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Herod No. 2 Mine
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| Start Date:
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1965
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End Date:
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1965
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| Type of Mine:
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Surface
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| Total acres shown:
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9
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| Production Indicated Acres:
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Less than 1
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General Area of mining acres shown:
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The area shown on the accompanying map probably includes several mines whose location is not known (see unlocated mines), as well as areas of disturbed ground that was not mined.
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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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| Pit
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Johnson
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11S 4E
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32
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SW NE SE
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Geology
| Reynoldsburg
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24-27
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|
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2.67
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Surface
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Geological Problems Reported
Production
| Company
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Mine Name
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Date
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Production (tons)
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| Herod Mining Corporation The mine was also shown on Coal Section file copies of topographic maps as Lafayette Coal Company and Brandy Pit.
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Herod No. 2
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1965-1965
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1,938
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| Total Production: 1,938
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Production Notes
Coal Report production (if available)
Sources of Data
| Creal Springs Quadrangle, IGQ-4
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1990
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1:24000
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1:24000
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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 (Johnson County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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| Mine notes (Johnson County) - Mine type, mine location, seam, depth, thickness.
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| Trask, C. B. and R. J. Jacobson, Geologic Map of the Creal Springs Quadrangle, Illinois: Illinois State Geological Survey, Map IGQ-4, 1 sheet - Mine location, mine outline.
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| Coal Section strip mine updates, 1966 - Mine ownership.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
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