Mine Index Number: 2794
| Company Name:
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Balsters Coal Company
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| Mine Name:
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Balsters Mine
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| Start Date:
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Unknown
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End Date:
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Unknown
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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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General Area of mining acres shown:
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No production reported under these names; years of operation unknown. Active in 1922, when H. E. Culver (ISGS) visited, but the Coal Report didn’t report production that year for mines producing less than 10,000 tons.
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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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Madison
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5N 9W
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14
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SE SE NE
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Geology
Geological Problems Reported
The coal is full of bony layers and pyrite in balls, lenses, and stringers. Calcium carbonate in facings; the coal is hard to work. The mine was only opened up 10 feet to east and west of the shaft at the time of the visit. “Will be abandoned unless the coal shows up better in 50 feet or less.”
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
| ISGS field notes (H. E. Culver)
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11-6-1922
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(text only)
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1:24000 Point plotted onto 1:24,000 USGS topographic map 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 (Madison County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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| Mine notes (Madison County) - Mine type, shaft location, depth, thickness.
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| ISGS field notes - Mine type, shaft location, depth, thickness, geologic problems.
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