Mine Index Number: 2342
| Company Name:
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Wilmington Coal Mining and Manufacturing Company
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| Mine Name:
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Diamond No. 2 Mine
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| Start Date:
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Unknown
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End Date:
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1883
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| Type of Mine:
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Underground
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| Total acres shown:
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147
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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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Grundy
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33N 9E
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31
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NW SW SW
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| Air shaft
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Grundy
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33N 9E
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31
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NE SW SW
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| Air / escape shaft
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Grundy
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33N 9E
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36
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NE SE SE
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Geology
Geological Problems Reported
This mine was the site of the Braidwood disaster, where 69 men drowned in February 1883. The mine was shallow, and the mine had had trouble with water accumulating in the workings previously. The topography of the area is flat, and natural drainage was not helpful even in dispersing water pumped out of the mine. Snow-melt combined with rain flooded the countryside to a depth of 1 to 3 feet. The active face was the west part of the mine, and water came in from the eastern part of the mine where the water had broken into the workings. The main shaft was east of the escape shaft, and flooded first. The roadway to the escape shaft had a dip about 15 yards long so that the last miners out by this route had to swim, and then the escape route became inaccessible. This mine did not re-open after the disaster.
Production
| Company
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Mine Name
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Date
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Production (tons)
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| Wilmington Coal Mining and Manufacturing Company
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Diamond No. 2
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? -1883 Production before July 1881 is unknown. Production for 1883 was not listed in the Coal Reports.
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14,000 Production before July 1881 is unknown. Production for 1883 was not listed in the Coal Reports.
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| Total Production: 14,000 Production before July 1881 is unknown. Production for 1883 was not listed in the Coal Reports.
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Production Notes
Coal Report production (if available)
Sources of Data
| Coal Report p. 98-99
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1883
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1:9600
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1:9600
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Secondary source
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| Company
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4-1906
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1:1200
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1:1200
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Final
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Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)
| Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation, seam, depth, thickness, mining method, geologic problems, mine outline, shaft locations.
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| Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (Grundy County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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| Company map, traced 2006- Mine location, mine outline (western). Original map is mounted on the wall of the Coal City Public Library, Coal City, Illinois
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
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