Mine Index Number: 0883
| Company Name:
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Peabody Coal Company
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| Mine Name:
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Eagle Surface Mine
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| Start Date:
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1945
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End Date:
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May 1980
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| Type of Mine:
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Surface
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| Total acres shown:
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1,336 This area encompasses several other small mines. Some were small underground mines whose pillars were retrieved by the Eagle Mine, some were small surface mines whose outlines are no longer relevant, and there is some evidence that a previously auger-mined area was surface-mined by the Eagle Mine.
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General Area of mining acres shown:
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Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)
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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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| Tipple
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Gallatin
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10S 9E
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8
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NE NE NE
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Geology
| Herrin
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6-80
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3.0-4.67
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Surface
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| Springfield
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20-40
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4.5
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Surface
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Geological Problems Reported
This mine uncovered traces of several faults of the Shawneetown Fault Zone. Many thrust faults and some normal faults were seen. In one case, the Herrin Coal was triplicated in the section caused by large-scale thrusting. The south side of one thrust fault was up-thrown about 10 feet. The faulting caused displaced coal and made the coal elevation pitch and roll steeply, and caused instability of the highwall. In some pits, the Pleistocene material directly overlay the Herrin Coal and appeared to have cut down into the coal in some spots. The overburden over the Herrin Coal consisted of black Anna Shale (sometimes pods or not present at all), a thin layer (from a few inches thick up to 3 or 4 feet) of Brereton Limestone, gray Lawson Shale (from 2 to 15 feet thick), and Anvil Rock Sandstone. In some places the Anvil Rock Sandstone was present as a channel fill about 1,000 feet wide that had eroded down to within a few inches of the coal, and up to 50 feet thick in the channel phase. In two pits, concretions were commonly associated with the Herrin Coal. In one pit, the concretions were pyritic and weathered easily to a brown powdery material in the spoil pile. A few thin pyrite lenses were also present in the coal, as well as calcite and pyrite on cleat faces. At least one clay dike was seen in the Briar Hill Coal. The Dekoven Coal was overlain by 35 to 40 feet of hard gray silty shale with numerous thin beds of sandstone in the upper part.
Production
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Mine Name
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Date
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Production (tons)
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| Total Production: 6,484,316
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Production Notes
Coal Report production (if available)
Sources of Data
| Company, 10-6-12
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7-18-1983
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1:12000
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1:12000
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Final
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| Company, 4103.G3 i5.1-13
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1-1-1979
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1:12000
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1:12000
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Not final
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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 (Gallatin County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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| Mine notes (Gallatin County) - Mine type, mine location, seam, depth, thickness, geologic problems.
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| Company map, ISGS Coal Section files, 10-6-12 - Mine outline, mining method.
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| Company map, ISGS map library, 4103.G3 i5.1-13 - Tipple location.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
Photographs
