Mine Index Number: 2423
| Company Name:
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Ratcliffe Coal Company
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| Mine Name:
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Ratcliffe Mine
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| Start Date:
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Unknown
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End Date:
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1929
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| Type of Mine:
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Underground
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| Total acres shown:
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13
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| Acres after map date:
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General Area of mining acres shown:
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13
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Area shown is a general area of mining, which may not only relate to the Ratcliffe Coal Company mine.
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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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Henry
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15N 5E
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27
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NE NW SW This mine may be located near the NE corner NW, section 27. At least three different locations were given in the ISGS mine notes, and topographic discrepancies on the microfilm map make this mine impossible to locate with any degree of accuracy.
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Geology
Geological Problems Reported
The largest percentage of impurities consisted of clay lenses. A number of cracks extended from the floor to the roof and were filled with clay. “Whitetop”, a white clay filling cracks and spaces between small coal pieces, was reported as present in this mine, although it was not as common as in some of the other mines in the area. The roof was bad over the areas of white top.
Production
| Company
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Mine Name
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Date
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Production (tons)
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| Ratcliffe Coal Company
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Ratcliffe
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Unknown - 1929
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none The annual Coal Report lists production from 11 different Ratcliffe mines between 1914 and 1929. The Ratcliffe mines produced a total of 123,837 tons, which would have mined out 35 to 50 acres of coal.
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Production Notes
Coal Report production (if available)
Sources of Data
| Federal Land Bank Report
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8-1935
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1:125000
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1:125000
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Secondary source
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| Microfilm, document 351489
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6-4-1923
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1:538
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not digitized The microfilm map fails to adequately locate the mine, placing it near a section coordinate that does not have thepublic road also shown in the required configuration.
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(unregisterable)
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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 (Henry County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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| Mine notes (Henry County) - Mine type, shaft location, seam, depth, thickness.
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| Microfilm map, document 351489, reel 03136, frame 239 - Mining method.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
Photographs
