Mine Index Number: 2383
| Company Name:
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Heather Coal Company
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| Mine Name:
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Heather Mine
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| Start Date:
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1936
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End Date:
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1937
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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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| Production Indicated Acres:
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Less than 1
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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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34N 6E
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11
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S ½ SW The location was listed in the mine notes as “102 rods (1,683 feet) W of SW corner of SW 1/4", which puts the mine in a different section than specified. No sketch was supplied in the mine notes to correctly decipher this location.
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Geology
Geological Problems Reported
Production
| Company
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Mine Name
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Date
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Production (tons)
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Production Notes
Coal Report production (if available)
Sources of Data
| Mine notes
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Undated
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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)
| Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation.
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| Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (Grundy County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation, seam.
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| Mine notes (Grundy County) - Mine type, shaft location.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
Photographs
