Mine Index Number: 2337
Accessible description: Mine Name and Data Summary
| Company Name:
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Number Three Coal Company
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| Mine Name:
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Number Three No. 3 Mine
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| Start Date:
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1909
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End Date:
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October 29, 1954
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| Type of Mine:
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Underground
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| Total acres shown:
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592
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| Acres after map date:
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3
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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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| Shaft Type |
County |
Township-Range |
Section |
Part Section
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| Main shaft
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Grundy
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31N 8E
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23
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NE NW SE
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| Shaft Type |
County |
Township-Range |
Section |
Part Section
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| Air shaft
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Grundy
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31N 8E
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23
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SE SW NE
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Geology
| Seam |
Depth (ft) |
Thickness Min |
Thickness max |
Thickness Ave. |
Mining Method
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| Colchester
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185
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3.25
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LW, RPP
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Geological Problems Reported
The source map noted an area in the SW NE NW 23-T31N-R8E where sandstone was found instead of coal. A fault or a sandstone channel was the probable cause of the coal’s absence.
Production
| Company
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Mine Name
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Date
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Production (tons)
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| Company |
Mine Name |
Date |
Production (tons)
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| Total Production: 3,153,040
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Production Notes
Coal Report production (if available)
Sources of Data
| Source Map |
Map Date |
Original Scale |
Digitized Scale |
Map Type
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| Company, 4103.G72 i5.1-2
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4-2-1942
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1:2400
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1:2400
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Final, not final [4]
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| Source Map |
Map Date |
Original Scale |
Digitized Scale |
Map Type
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| Microfilm, document 351480
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10-29-1954
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1:2400
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1:2813
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Final [5]
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| Bibliography
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| Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation.
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| Bibliography
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| Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (Grundy County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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| Bibliography
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| Mine notes (Grundy County) - Mine type, shaft location, seam, depth, thickness.
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| Bibliography
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| Company map, ISGS map library, 4103.G72 i5.1-2 - Shaft locations, mine outline (northern, northwestern, eastern and southern parts of mine), mining method, geologic problems.
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| Bibliography
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| Microfilm map, document 351480, reel 03136, frame 228 - Mine outline, mining method, seam.
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| Bibliography
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| Grundy County Sesquicentennial - Mine ownership.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
Photographs
Notes
- ↑ The mine was not operated because it was abandoned on 2-27-1925 until it re-opened in 1927 under new ownership of John Skinner and Alex Densmore.
- ↑ Idle 1944-1947
- ↑ Production after map date. See note below (on this page) on map sources. The 1948-1954 production is included in the mine boundary on the accompanying map (not as “production after map date”).
- ↑ Sheet 1 of the company map is dated April 1938, and is final for the northeastern, eastern and southern parts of the mine (working faces were dated 1925 and before). Sheet 2, dated April 1942, illustrates extensions in the northwestern part of the mine. Mining continued in this portion of the mine through 1943. The mine was not reopened until 1948, when the longwall method was discontinued and the room-and-pillar-panel method utilized. The map showing this segment of the mine also shows the southern half of the earlier extensions unchanged and, therefore, final. The additional 3 acres after the map date are probably in the most northwestern portion of the mine, in NW NW 23-T31N-R8E.
- ↑ Sheet 1 of the company map is dated April 1938, and is final for the northeastern, eastern and southern parts of the mine (working faces were dated 1925 and before). Sheet 2, dated April 1942, illustrates extensions in the northwestern part of the mine. Mining continued in this portion of the mine through 1943. The mine was not reopened until 1948, when the longwall method was discontinued and the room-and-pillar-panel method utilized. The map showing this segment of the mine also shows the southern half of the earlier extensions unchanged and, therefore, final. The additional 3 acres after the map date are probably in the most northwestern portion of the mine, in NW NW 23-T31N-R8E.
