Mine Index Number: 2814
| Company Name:
|
Ernest H. Rink
|
| Mine Name:
|
Rink Mine
|
| Start Date:
|
1903
|
End Date:
|
1943
|
| Type of Mine:
|
Underground
|
| Total acres shown:
|
45
|
| Production Indicated Acres:
|
Less than 5
|
General Area of mining acres shown:
|
|
|
|
Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)
| Type
|
County
|
Township-Range
|
Section
|
Part Section
|
| Main shaft
|
Madison
|
6N 9W
|
13
|
SE SW NW
|
| Shaft
|
Madison
|
6N 9W
|
13
|
NE SW NW
|
Geology
Geological Problems Reported
Production
| Company
|
Mine Name
|
Date
|
Production (tons)
|
| Ernest H. Rink
|
Rink
|
1905-1943 Idle 1924
|
9,834 Production not reported 1922 (mines less than 10,000 tons not reported), 1930-1933 (mines less than 1,000 tons not reported). Yearly production generally 150-370 tons; tonnage shown does not include estimates for these years. Tonnage from 1934-1943 may be a separate mine.
|
|
|
Production Notes
Coal Report production (if available)
Sources of Data
| Federal Land Bank Report The outline shown may be of up to three mines; unclear due to scale of source map.
|
6-1934
|
1:126720
|
1:126720
|
Secondary source
|
| 1906 Atlas of Madison County
|
1906
|
1:31680
|
1:31680
|
Secondary source
|
| ISGS mine notes
|
undated
|
(text only)
|
1:24000 Point plotted onto 1:24,000 USGS topographic map and digitized.
|
Secondary source
|
Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)
| Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation, thickness, depth, seam, mining method.
|
| Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (Madison County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
|
| Mine notes (Madison County) - Mine type, shaft location, seam, depth, thickness.
|
| ISGS field notes - Air shaft location, depth.
|
| Federal Land Bank Report (Madison County) - Shaft location, general area of mining.
|
| 1906 Atlas of Madison County - Shaft location.
|
Mine Notes
Mine Images
Photographs
