Mine Index Number: 0936
| Company Name:
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Western Mining, Incorporated
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| Mine Name:
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Shawnee Mine
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| Start Date:
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1974
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End Date:
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1975
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| Type of Mine:
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Surface
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| Total acres shown:
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10 Less than 1 The area shown on the accompanying map may include land that was disturbed but not mined.
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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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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 or tipple
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Pope
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SW SE SE
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29
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SW SE SE
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Geology
| Un-named The coal was an un-named seam in the Tradewater Formation.
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Surface
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Geological Problems Reported
The coal contained occasional pyrite nodules up to 1 inch in diameter along irregularly-spaced fractures.
Production
| Company
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Mine Name
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Date
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Production (tons)
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| Western Mining, Incorporated
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Shawnee
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Shawnee
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1.25 The mine was a test pit at an old mine site, considered for re-opening. The production is not an accurate total.The mine that formerly operated at that site is unknown, but was cited as an “old mine” in 1967 field work.
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| Total Production: 1.25 The mine was a test pit at an old mine site, considered for re-opening. The production is not an accurate total.The mine that formerly operated at that site is unknown, but was cited as an “old mine” in 1967 field work.
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Production Notes
Coal Report production (if available)
Sources of Data
| Waltersburg Quadrangle, IGQ-8
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1991
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1:24000
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1:24000
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Secondary source
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| Pope_co_03.tif
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1975 and 1987
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1:8448
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1:8448
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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 (Pope County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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| Mine notes (Pope County) - Mine location, mine type, geologic problems.
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| ISGS field notes (M. E. Hopkins and R. A. Peppers, 10-20-1967) - Mine location (old mine).
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| Weibel, C. P., W. J. Nelson, and J. A. Devera, 1991, Geologic map of the Waltersburg Quadrangle, Pope County, Illinois, Illinois State Geological Survey, Illinois Geologic Quadrangle Map IGQ-8, 1 sheet - Mine location, seam.
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| IDNR surface mine updates on aerial photogaphs, Pope_co_03.tif - Mine outline.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
Photographs
