Mine Index 0990 Peabody Coal Company, Marissa Mine

Mine Index Number: 0990

Company Name:	Peabody Coal Company
Mine Name:	Marissa Mine
Start Date:	1979	End Date:	1999
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	7,273
Acres after map date:		General Area of mining acres shown:

Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)

Type	County	Township-Range	Section	Part Section

Main slope

Washington

3S 5W

29

NW NW SE

Air shaft

Washington

3S 5W

29

SW NW SE

Air shaft

Washington

3S 5W

29

SW NW SE

Air shaft

Washington

3S 5W

29

SW NE SW

Geology

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

Herrin

150-200

6.6-7.3

BRP

Geological Problems Reported

A thrust fault with displacement up to 1.5 feet was noted, as well as some localized thrust faults with less than 1 foot of displacement. The thrust faults were laterally discontinuous. The roof was limestone near the slope bottom. Limestone roof materials were sometimes thin or discontinuous. The limestone was likely Brereton Limestone in some areas, but the Conant Limestone was also seen in the Marissa Mine. Anna Shale made the roof in some areas, and joints and slips were usually widely spaced in this black shale. Some areas of black shale roof contained concretions. Slips were common where the roof was Energy Shale, and the coal under the gray shale sometimes contained concretions in the upper part of the seam. A set of slips, oriented northwest southeast, southwest of the air intake shaft marked a boundary between good and bad roof. The bad roof had many slips, and appeared to have thin or no limestone in the sequence above the coal. The coal was generally 5.5 feet thick under limestone roof and up to 7.5 feet thick under black shale. Pyrite was present in the coal as stringers, thin bands and goat beards. The blue band was about 1 foot from the bottom of the coal.

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

Peabody Coal Company (add)	Marissa (add)	1979-1999	40,680,259

Total Production: 40,680,259

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

State archive, MS_25_01

1-11-2000

1:3200

1:3200

Final

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

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

Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (Washington County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.

Mine notes (Washington County) - Mine type, seam, thickness, geologic problems.

State archive, MS_25_01 - Slope & shaft locations, mine outline, mining method.