Mine Index Number: 2849
| Company Name:
|
Kinmundy Coal Company
|
| Mine Name:
|
Kinmundy Mine
|
| Start Date:
|
1886
|
End Date:
|
1906
|
| Type of Mine:
|
Underground
|
| Total acres shown:
|
|
| Production Indicated Acres:
|
124 although the mine may be smaller due to the longwall mining, which would leave no pillars.
|
General Area of mining acres shown:
|
128
|
|
|
Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)
| Type
|
County
|
Township-Range
|
Section
|
Part Section
|
| Main shaft
|
Marion
|
4N 3E
|
23
|
SW NE NW
|
| Air / escape shaft
|
Marion
|
4N 3E
|
23
|
NE NW The 1907 Sanborn Map Company drawing shows an escape shaft northeast of the hoist shaft. The precise distance is uncertain, and the escape shaft is not shown on the accompanying map.
|
Geology
| Springfield
|
878
|
|
4.17
|
3.75
|
LW, RPLongwall mining was practiced until 1895, while thereafter the Coal Report indicated room-and-pillar mining was utilized.
|
Geological Problems Reported
Clay horsebacks were common in the mine. The coal was split into two layers of 2.3 to 3.0 feet above a coal of 3.6 feet thick. The interval between the two coal layers varies from 3 feet of shale and 5 feet of limestone to all shale. The upper coal had a sandy shale roof that was reported to stay up well, but that adhered strongly to the coal. The upper coal was cleaner, but with the shale difficulties and the thinner deposit, the upper coal was not profitable to mine. Some of the fire clay floor was excavated in the haulage entries to give clearance to the small mules used for haulage. The floor heaved, and consisted of 5 feet or more of fire clay.
Production
| Company
|
Mine Name
|
Date
|
Production (tons)
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Total Production: 417,046
|
Production Notes
Coal Report production (if available)
Sources of Data
| Federal Land Bank Report
|
1-1936
|
1:126720
|
1:126720
|
Secondary source
|
Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)
| Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation, mining method.
|
| Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (Marion County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
|
| Mine notes (Marion County) - Mine type, shaft location, seam, depth, thickness, geologic problems.
|
| Federal Land Bank Report (Marion County) - Shaft location, general area of mining.
|
| Sanborn Map Company, 1907, Kinmundy - Shaft locations.
|
Mine Notes
Mine Images
Photographs
