Mine Index Number: 2301
| Company Name:
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Independent Coal Company
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| Mine Name:
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Independent Mine
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| Start Date:
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Pre 1875
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End Date:
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1880
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| Type of Mine:
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Underground
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| Total acres shown:
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None
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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 slope
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Gallatin
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10S 9E
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35
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SW SW NW
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| Air shaft
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Gallatin
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10S 9E
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35
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SW NW NW
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Geology
Geological Problems Reported
This mine reportedly closed because of water problems with the air shaft. A fault was encountered 60 to 90 feet west of the slope in the Dekoven Coal. The coal was replaced by sandstone there, either by erosion or faulting. The roof was shale.
Production
| Company
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Mine Name
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Date
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Production (tons)
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| Independent Coal Company
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Country Bank
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pre 1875-1880 The mine was apparently active when Worthen visited before his 1875 publication. Wallace Lee includes the same data in his field notes of 1915, but his additonal information is from the local postmaster. There is no indication that Lee entered the mine or that the mine was active when he visited in 1915.
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Unknown The Independent Coal Company was not listed in the Coal Reports, which began publication in 1882.
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| Total Production: Unknown The Independent Coal Company was not listed in the Coal Reports, which began publication in 1882.
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Production Notes
Coal Report production (if available)
Sources of Data
| ISGS field notes (Wallace Lee)
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1915
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(text only)
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1:24000 The mine location was plotted on a 1:24000 USGS topographic map from the mine location description and digitized.
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Secondary source
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Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)
| Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (Gallatin County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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| Mine notes (Gallatin County) - Mine type, slope location, seam, thickness, geologic problems.
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| ISGS field notes (Gallatin County) - Mine type, slope and air shaft locations, geologic problems.
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| Microfilm map, document 351452, reel 03136, frame 158 - Slope and shaft locations, mine outline, mining method.
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| Worthen Report, Vol. VI, p. 206, Geology of Gallatin County - Mine name, general location, seams, depth, thickness, geologic problems.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
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