Mine Index Number: 0930
| Company Name:
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Consolidation Coal Company
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| Mine Name:
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Burning Star No. 3 Mine
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| Start Date:
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1966
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End Date:
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1982
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| Type of Mine:
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Surface
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| Total acres shown:
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3,562
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| Acres after map date:
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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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| Tipple or pit
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Randolph
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5S 6W
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9
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SE SE SE
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Geology
| Herrin
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25-30 [1]
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5.75
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Surface
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| Springfield
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20-30
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4.67
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Surface
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Geological Problems Reported
A number of small underground mines in SE 22-T5S-R6W were mined through. These underground mines were 18 to 25 feet deep. The roof over the Herrin Coal had a sharp contact with the coal. The Herrin Coal had a lot of white calcite on the cleats and vertical fracture facings and pyrite in small veinlets and small lenses. The overburden on the Springfield Coal included 5 feet of limestone above 18 inches of fissile carbonaceous black shale. The Springfield Coal had a lot of visible pyrite in the form of finely crystalline cleat fillings and thick pyrite lenses and band up to 2 inches thick. The pyrite lenses and bands were especially noticeable about 20 inches above the base of the coal. The Springfield Coal had a sulfur content of about 3.5%. The sulfur content of the Herrin Coal was about 3%.
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: 20,867,818
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Production Notes
Coal Report production (if available)
Sources of Data
| Company, Coal Section files, 6-403
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9-1982
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1:11842
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1:11842
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Final
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| USGS topographic map, Walsh
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1970, PR 1982
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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 (Randolph County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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| Mine notes (Randolph County) - Mine type, seam, depth, thickness, geologic problems.
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| Company map, Coal Section files, 6-403 - Mine location, mine outline, mining method.
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| USGS 7.5-minute topographic map, Walsh Quadrangle, 1970, photorevised 1982 - Mine outline.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
Photographs
Notes
- ↑ The pits near the tipple and to the north had Herrin Coal, while pits south of the tipple mined only Springfield Coal.
- ↑ Table 10 of the 1982 Coal Report listed 791,501 tons production for Burning Star No. 3, while Table 13 (Physical and Mechanical Characteristics of Shipping Mines) showed 1982 production was 792,067 tons. The Production of All Mines, Table 10, value was used for this tally. If the Table 13 value is the correct value, total production would be 20,868,384 tons.
