Mine Index Number: 2708
| Company Name:
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North Wilmington Coal Company
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| Mine Name:
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North Wilmington Mine
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| Start Date:
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1902
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End Date:
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1906
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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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6
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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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La Salle
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33N 5E
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24
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SW NWThe shaft location is uncertain. The location was sketched in the mine notes, and modified to be near a mine dump shown on an old topographic map.
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Geology
| Colchester
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112
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3.0
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LW (old longwall)
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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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| North Wilmington Coal Company Standard Coal Company was previously listed in the ISGS mine database with North Wilmington Coal Company (mine index 2708). The Coal Reports clearly indicate Standard and North Wilmington are separate mines, by the 1902 Coal Report (p. 103) reporting the sinking of the North Wilmington shaft, and 1903 (p. 144) reporting the opening of North Wilmington while also reporting the abandonment of Standard Mine (1903 Coal Report, p. 145). See mine index 2707 for Standard Coal Company.
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North Wilmington
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1902-1906
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31,586
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Production Notes
Coal Report production (if available)
Sources of Data
| USGS topographic map
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1916
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1:62500
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1:62500
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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, mine type, depth, thickness, mining method.
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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) - Mine type, shaft location, seam, depth, thickness.
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| USGS 15-minute topographic map, Marseilles Quadrangle, 1916 - Mine dump location.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
Photographs
