Mine Index Number: 2735
| Company Name:
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Richard Evans
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| Mine Name:
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Coalville Mine
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| Start Date:
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1881
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End Date:
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1894
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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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90
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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 drift
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Livingston
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30N 3E
|
2
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NW NW NW
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Geology
| Herrin [1]
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62-70
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|
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4.0-5.0
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RP, HER[2]
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Geological Problems Reported
Production
| Company
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Mine Name
|
Date
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Production (tons)
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| Richard Evans
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Coalville
|
1881-1894
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406,587
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| Total Production: 406,587
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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 [3]
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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, seam, depth, thickness, mining method.
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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) - Drift location, seam.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
Photographs
Notes
- ↑ This mine may have also mined the Colchester Coal seam, but no maps have been found.
- ↑ At least some pillars were extracted. Fatalities while removing pillars occurred in 1891 and 1892.
- ↑ The mine location was plotted on a 1:24000 USGS topographic map from the mine location description and digitized.
