Mine Index Number: 2715
| Company Name:
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Marshall and Simpkins
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| Mine Name:
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Marshall and Simpkins Mine
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| Start Date:
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1886
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End Date:
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1891
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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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23
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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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Livingston
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30N 3E
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1
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SW SW SE
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Geology
Geological Problems Reported
This mine was closed because of water flowing in from an adjacent abandoned mine.
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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1:62500
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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, depth, thickness, mining method, geologic problems.
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| Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (Livingston County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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| Mine notes (Livingston County) - Shaft location (identification of ownership).
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| ISGS map library, 4103.L32 i5.1-23 - Shaft location (verification of mine at this location).
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
Photographs
