Mine Index Number: 1024
| Company Name:
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Silver Creek Coal Company
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| Mine Name:
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Bear Mine
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| Start Date:
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1999
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End Date:
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2000
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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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| Production Indicated Acres:
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Less than 5
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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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| Tipple or pit
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Knox
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9N 4E
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27
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SW
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Geology
Geological Problems Reported
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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2001
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(text only)
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1:24000
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Secondary source
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Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)
| Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (Knox County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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| Mine notes (Knox County) - Mine location, mine type, seam, mining method.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
Photographs
Notes
- ↑ The company was not listed in the Coal Reports of 1998 through 2001, and is known only through newspaper articles about lawsuits regarding lack of mining permits. The notes indicate that less than 5,000 tons had been sold and “a few thousand tons” of coal was still stockpiled on site on the ground in 2000, but that by March 2001, all the equipment had been removed and the owner had filed for bankruptcy.
