Mine Index Number: 3022
| Company Name:
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Leitner Coal Company
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| Mine Name:
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Leitner Mine
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| Start Date:
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1885
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End Date:
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1922
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| Type of Mine:
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Underground
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| Total acres shown:
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213
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| Production Indicated Acres:
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140
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General Area of mining acres shown:
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The area shown on the accompanying map is larger than expected for the reported production. The outline may include other mines (see the unlocated mines), or the outline may represent the property available to mine and not the true extent of the mine. The outline is shaded as a general area of mining because of the questionable extent.
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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 slope
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Peoria
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7N 7E
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2
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SE SE SE
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Geology
| Springfield
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17-115
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4.0
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6.0
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4.5
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RP
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Geological Problems Reported
The western side of the mine encountered the mud fault of channel fill. The channel trended NE-SW in SW cor SE 2-T7N-R7E and was 200 to 250 feet wide. The cap rock was an erosional sandstone that was generally 6 to 8 feet above the coal. Below the sandstone was 18 inches of black shale that adhered to the coal. The mine had many horsebacks that came down from the roof or up from the floor. Sometimes the black shale roof was penetrated by horsebacks, but with finer cracks and never as extensively as the coal. The coal contained lenses of pyrite and sheets of clay. The pyrite caused considerable coal to be discarded because it did not separate easily.
Production
| Company
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Mine Name
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Date
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Production (tons)
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| Leitner Coal Company
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Leitner
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1917-1922
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160,324 The 1920 production of 27,597 tons was listed twice, in the shipping mines category and the local mines category. The production may be over-reported.
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| Total Production: 566,943
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Production Notes
Coal Report production (if available)
Sources of Data
| ISGS map library, 4103.P41 i5.1-35
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10-29-1917
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1:15840
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1:15840
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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, mining method.
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| Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (Peoria County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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| Mine notes (Peoria County) - Slope location, depth, thickness, geologic problems.
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| ISGS map library, 4103.P41 i5.1-35, a compilation of mine locations, author unknown - Slope location, mine outline.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
Photographs
