Mine Index 0958 Southern Illinois Minerals, Vergennes No. 4 Mine

Mine Index Number: 0958

Company Name:	Southern Illinois Minerals
Mine Name:	Vergennes No. 4 Mine
Start Date:	1976	End Date:	March 1977
Type of Mine:	Surface
Total acres shown:	None
Acres after map date:	10	General Area of mining acres shown:

Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)

Type	County	Township-Range	Section	Part Section

Pit / tipple

Jackson

7S 2W

8

N ½ NW

Geology

		Thickness (ft)
Seam	Depth (ft)	Min	Max	Ave	Mining Method

Murphysboro

30-35

5.0

Surface

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

Three States Trucking, Inc. (add)	Vergennes No. 4 (add)	1976-1976	68,508

Southern Illinois Minerals (add)	Vergennes No. 4 (add)	1977-1977	9,632

Total Production: 78,140

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

Coal Section mine database

Undated

(text only)

1:24000 The mine location was plotted on a 1:24000 USGS topographic map from the mine location description and digitized.

Secondary source

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation, depth, thickness.

Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (Jackson County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, mine location.

Mine notes (Jackson County) - Seam.