Mine Index Number: 2912
| Company Name:
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Unknown
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| Mine Name:
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Old Calamity Mine
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| Start Date:
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Unknown
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End Date:
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Before 1878
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| Type of Mine:
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Underground
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| Total acres shown:
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1,225
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| Acres after map date:
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General Area of mining acres shown:
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The secondary source map for this mine is poor and boundaries between mines could not be distinguished. The total acres for this mine (mine index 2912), Carlinville No. 1 Mine (mine index 0069) and Standard No. 1 Mine (mine index 0187) total 1,225 acres.
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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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Macoupin
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10N 7W
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21
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NW SE SW
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Geology
Geological Problems Reported
Production
| Company
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Mine Name
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Date
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Production (tons)
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| unknown
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Old CalamityNot listed in the Coal Reports, believed to have been abandoned prior to 1878 (the earliest Coal Report available). Production, ownership, and years of operation are unknown.
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- before 1878
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Production Notes
Coal Report production (if available)
Sources of Data
| WPA
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7-1-1923
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1:12000
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1:57600
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Secondary source
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Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)
| Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (Macoupin County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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| Mine notes (Macoupin County) - Mine type, shaft location, seam.
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| WPA map, T10N-R7W - Shaft location, mine outline.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
 These files may not be true to scale and are not georgistered.
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Map Type:
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WPA
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| Map ID:
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WPA T10N-R7W
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| Company:
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| Mine Name:
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| Caption:
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| Map Date:
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7-1-1923
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| Map Status:
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Secondary
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| Image Credit:
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| Note:
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Full WPA Image
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| More Info:
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M0187 wpa
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| Full Res Download:These files are true to scale and most are georegistered for gis software. These files may be a very large (>1GB) download!
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https://go.illinois.edu/ILMImages/macoupin/m0187 wpa.zip
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Photographs
