Mine Index Number: 2381
| Company Name:
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Big Four Wilmington Coal Company
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| Mine Name:
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Maria Mine
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| Start Date:
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1893
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End Date:
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1904
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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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255
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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 (circular)
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Grundy
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33N 8E
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35
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SE NW NE
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| Air / escape shaft
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Grundy
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33N 8E
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The haulage slope with a 25-degree incline was under construction one mile from the shaft in 1899. The 1899 Coal Report also noted that the man-and-material slope was in use at the time, and that the escape shaft was in good shape. Since no source map was found for this mine, precise locations of these slopes and the air shaft cannot be determined.
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| Slope (men and materials)
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Grundy
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33N 8E
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The haulage slope with a 25-degree incline was under construction one mile from the shaft in 1899. The 1899 Coal Report also noted that the man-and-material slope was in use at the time, and that the escape shaft was in good shape. Since no source map was found for this mine, precise locations of these slopes and the air shaft cannot be determined.
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| Slope
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Grundy
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33N 8E
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The haulage slope with a 25-degree incline was under construction one mile from the shaft in 1899. The 1899 Coal Report also noted that the man-and-material slope was in use at the time, and that the escape shaft was in good shape. Since no source map was found for this mine, precise locations of these slopes and the air shaft cannot be determined.
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Geology
| Colchester
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90
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3.0-3.33
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LW
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Geological Problems Reported
Slips in the roof caused a roof fall that resulted in a fatality in 1896.
Production
| Company
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Mine Name
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Date
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Production (tons)
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| Total Production: 1,354,477
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Production Notes
Coal Report production (if available)
Sources of Data
| Plat Book of Grundy County, Illinois
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1909
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1:31680
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1:31680
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Secondary source
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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, types of openings.
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| Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (Grundy County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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| Mine notes (Grundy County) - Mine type, shaft location.
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| Plat Book of Grundy County, Illinois - Shaft location.
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