Mine Index 0992 Brushy Creek Coal Company, Inc., Brushy Creek Mine

Mine Index Number: 0992

Company Name:	Brushy Creek Coal Company, Inc.
Mine Name:	Brushy Creek Mine
Start Date:	1978	End Date:	November 1999
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	4,307
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

Saline

8S 5E

32

SW NW NW

Air shaft

Saline

8S 5E

32

NW NW NW

Geology

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

Herrin

230-300

5.33-6.5

CRP

Geological Problems Reported

This mine is about 100 feet above old works in the Springfield Coal, the Peabody No. 47 Mine (mine index 0124). Some faults were found, with displacement up to 30 feet. The roof around the air shaft bottom consisted of 6 feet of Energy Shale overlain by 2 feet of Anna Shale, and in turn overlain by Brereton Limestone. The Energy Shale made a competent roof generally, but slaked badly in north-south-directed entries. For this reason, the general mine plan was offset about 45 degrees from a north-south orientation, which avoids the regional compression that causes falls in north-south oriented entries. Some areas of the Energy Shale had discontinuous faults that did not extend down into the coal. In other areas, the Anna Shale was the immediate roof and the Energy Shale was present only as thin, discontinuous, lenticular deposits. Some of the Energy Shale lenses were large, 1,000 feet or more across. The Anna Shale generally made a competent roof, even though numerous wide joints occurred in some areas. Concretions were also present in the Anna Shale, and they generally were predictors for the limestone being present within 3.5 feet above the shale. Roof falls occurred in areas with high angle fractures. The coal contained calcite along cleat fractures and pyrite as “goatbeards” and fracture fillings. The bed had no noticeable dip and was practically free of undulations and rolls.

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

Midwest Mining and Construction Company (add)	Brushy Creek (add)	1978-1978	none reported

Kenellis Energies, Inc. (add)	Brushy Creek (add)	1979-1990	11,448,119

Brushy Creek Coal Company, Inc. (add)	Brushy Creek (add)	1991-1999	8,755,334

Total Production: 20,203,453

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

Company, 6-348

1-31-2000

1:12000

1:12000

Final

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation, mining method.

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

Mine notes (Saline County) - Mine type, slope and shaft locations, seam, depth, thickness, geologic problems.

Company map, Coal Section files, 6-348 - Mine outline, slope & shaft locations, mining method.