Mine Index 2025 Sheffield Mining Company, Sheffield Mine

Mine Index Number: 2025

Company Name:	Sheffield Mining Company
Mine Name:	Sheffield Mine
Start Date:	1855	End Date:	1902
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	240
Acres after map date:		General Area of mining acres shown:
Sheffield Mine was later partially surface mined by Midland Mine (mine index 0681).

Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)

Type	County	Township-Range	Section	Part Section

Main slope

Bureau

16N 6E

24

NE SE SW

Shaft

Bureau

16N 6E

24

SE NW SE

Geology

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

Air shaft

40-45

4.5

RP

Geological Problems Reported

Numerous clay slips were present so that the usual room-and-pillar mining was altered to accommodate the problem. Entries were driven around a square block of coal and the rooms were driven in the best side of the block. The mine was abandoned because the distance from the working face to the shaft was too far for mule haulage (not because the reserves were exhausted).

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

Sheffield Mining Company The company was also known as Sheffield Mining and Transportation Company. (add)	Sheffield (add)	ca. 1855-1902 Production and years of operation before 1881 are unknown, but History of Bureau County (1885) stated the mine opened more than 30 years before. The 1882 Coal Report indicates 80 acres were mined.	393,766

Total Production: 393,766

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

Federal Land Bank Report

6-1935

1:126720

1:126720

Secondary source

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation, mine type, seam, depth, thickness, mining method, geologic problems.

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

Mine notes (Bureau County) - Mine type, slope location.

ISGS field notes (Bureau County) - Mine type, slope location.

Bradsby, H. C., 1885, History of Bureau County, Illinois, World Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois, 710p. - Years of operation.

Federal Land Bank Report (Bureau County) - Slope and shaft locations, mine outline.