Mine Index Number: 2201
| Company Name:
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Black Eagle Coal Company
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| Mine Name:
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Black Eagle Mine
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| Start Date:
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1916
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End Date:
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1945
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| Type of Mine:
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Underground
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| Total acres shown:
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40 With a general area of mining east of the shaft, where the oldest mining may have taken place.
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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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| Main shaft
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Fulton
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7N 4E
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29
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SW NE NW
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| Air shaft
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Fulton
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7N 4E
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29
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SW NE NW
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Geology
| Springfield
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45-64
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4.83
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MRP
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Geological Problems Reported
The east-central part of the mine left an area unmined that was labeled “slips, bad roof, water”, and an area in the central portion of the mine was also unmined and labeled “slips, bad roof”. A few rooms along the western side of the mine had roof falls, and a few rooms in the southeastern part of the mine had water. Southern expansion was prohibited by a “fault” shown on the mine map. (Sometimes faults on mine maps are not structural faults but other geologic features, such as poor roof or contemporaneous channels.)
Production
| Company
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Mine Name
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Date
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Production (tons)
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| John Vandallia (operator)Microfilm map document 351585 shows the 1923 to 1935 mine surveys. John Vandallia and West Locust Street Mine were not listed in the Coal Reports, and production for the years from 1916 to 1930 is not known. See the unlocated mines for Fulton County.
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West Locust Street
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1916-1930
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Unknown Microfilm map document 351585 shows the 1923 to 1935 mine surveys. John Vandallia and West Locust Street Mine were not listed in the Coal Reports, and production for the years from 1916 to 1930 is not known. See the unlocated mines at the back of this report.
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| Total Production: 108,596
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Production Notes
Coal Report production (if available)
Sources of Data
| Microfilm, document 351456
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3-20-1946
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1:600
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1:993
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Final
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| Microfilm, document 351585
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10-20-1935
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1:2400
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1:2648
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Not final
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Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)
| Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation.
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| Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (Fulton County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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| Mine notes (Fulton County) - Mine type, shaft location, seam, depth, thickness.
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| Mine Inspector's reports, courtesy of Joe Pelc, IDNR - Depth, opening year.
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| Microfilm map, document 351456, reel 03136, frames 186 & 187 - Shaft locations, mine outline, mining method, geologic problems, thickness.
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| Microfilm map, document 351585, reel 3136, frame 372 - Mine outline (general area of mining on eastern side), mine ownership, mine name.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
Photographs
