Mine Index Number: 0980
| Company Name:
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Industrial Coal Producers, Incorporated
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| Mine Name:
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New Burnside Mine
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| Start Date:
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1980
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End Date:
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April 1980
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| Type of Mine:
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Surface
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| Total acres shown:
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None
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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
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Johnson
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11S 4E
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5
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SE SE SW
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Geology
| New Burnside
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28
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5.0
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2.0
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Surface
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Geological Problems Reported
The highwall showed an underground mine (see the unlocated mines at the back of this report). A large volume of water was released when they hit the underground mine, and they caught this water ina sediment pond. Bad weather and a lack of buyer for their coal idled the mine in February (opened January, closed in April).
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
| Mine notes
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Undated
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(text only)
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1:24000 The mine location was plotted on a 1:24000 USGS topographic map from the mine location description and digitized.
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Secondary source
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Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)
| Coal Reports - Ownership, years of operation.
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| Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (Johnson County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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| Mine notes (Johnson County) - Mine type, mine location, seam, depth, thickness, geologic problems.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
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