Mine Index Number: 2452
| Company Name:
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Nearing Coal Company
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| Mine Name:
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Nearing Mine
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| Start Date:
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Unknown
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End Date:
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Before 1932
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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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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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| Shaft
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Jackson
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7S 2W
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28
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NW NW SW
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Geology
| Murphysboro
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84
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4.0-6.0
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Underground
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Geological Problems Reported
The roof was very poor.
Production
| Company
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Mine Name
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Date
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Production (tons)
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| Nearing Coal Company
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Nearing
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? - Before 1932
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Unknown When visited in 1932, the shaft had been abandoned “for many years”. Only “a few cars” of coal had been mined. Old coal cars generally had a 1-ton capacity or less, so production was probably less than 20 tons.
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Production Notes
Coal Report production (if available)
Sources of Data
| ISGS field notes (E. T. Benson)
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1932
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(text only)
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1:24000 The mine location was plotted on a 1:24000 USGS topographic base 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)
| Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (Jackson County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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| Mine notes (Jackson County) - Mine type, shaft location, seam, depth, thickness.
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| ISGS field notes (Jackson County) - Mine type, shaft location, thickness, depth, geologic problems.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
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