Mine Index Number: 0959
| Company Name:
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Southern Illinois Minerals
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| Mine Name:
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Sato No. 5 Mine
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| Start Date:
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1977
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End Date:
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November 1977
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| Type of Mine:
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Surface
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| Total acres shown:
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14 [1]
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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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| Pit / tipple
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Jackson
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7S 3W
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14
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SW SE
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Geology
| Murphysboro
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30-40
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2.5
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Surface
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Geological Problems Reported
The seam was split into three benches. Surficial materials and 10.5 feet of rock overlay 1.4 to 1.9 feet of the upper split of coal, which pinched out southward and was not mined. Under the upper split was 9 feet of soft shale, 1.1 to 2.0 feet of coal (that ranged up to 4 feet locally). This middle split pinched out southward as well. The lower split was overlain by 10 feet of claystone and shale, then the 2.5 feet thick coal that was mined. This coal had abundant thin pyritic fusain partings. This lowest bench varied in thickness and may have split also. The dragline operator reported that the lowest bench had abundant clay dikes. All of these coals were fairly low quality coal, although it lacked major bedded impurities and nodules. The marine rock sequence over the coal implied high sulfur content.
Production
| Company
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Mine Name
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Date
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Production (tons)
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Production Notes
Coal Report production (if available)
Sources of Data
| USGS digital orthophoto quadrangle
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2005
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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, thickness.
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| Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (Jackson County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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| Mine notes (Jackson County) - Mine type, pit location, seam, depth, thickness, geologic problems.
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| USGS digital orthophoto map, Ava Quadrangle, 2005 - Mine outline.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
Photographs
Notes
- ↑ The mine outline is now partially incorporated into the Creek Paum Mine (mine index 1023) surface mine. The boundaries could not be distinguished.
