Mine Index Number: 2630
| Company Name:
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River Bank Coal Company
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| Mine Name:
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River Bank Mine
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| Start Date:
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1881
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End Date:
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1886
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| Type of Mine:
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Underground
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| Total acres shown:
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25
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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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La Salle
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31N 3E
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35
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NE SE NE
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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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| Total Production: 118,743
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Production Notes
Coal Report production (if available)
Sources of Data
| Microfilm, mines087.tif and mines088.tif
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Undated
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Unknown
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1:4248
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Secondary source
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| Mine notes
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Undated
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1:62500
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1:24000The 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, depth, thickness.
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| Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (La Salle County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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| Mine notes (La Salle County) - Shaft location.
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| Microfilm map, Coal Section files, mines087.tif & mines088.tif - Mine outline, mining method.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
Photographs
