Mine Index Number: 3223
| Company Name:
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Elizabeth Blair
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| Mine Name:
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Blair Mine
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| Start Date:
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Circa 1885
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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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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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Randolph
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5S 6W
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30
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NW NW NE
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Geology
| Unknown
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32
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4.0
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Underground
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Geological Problems Reported
The mine was reputed to have a poor roof and bad water conditions.
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
| Federal Land Bank Report
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7-1934
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1:126720
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1:126720
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Secondary source
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| ISGS field notes (G. F. Moulton)
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circa 1925
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(text only)
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1:62500
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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.
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| Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (Randolph County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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| Mine notes (Randolph County) - Mine type, shaft location, seam, depth, thickness.
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| Federal Land Bank Report (Randolph County) - Shaft location.
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| ISGS field notes (Randolph County) - Depth, geologic problems.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
Photographs
Notes
- ↑ The source for the mine owner is the field notes, G. F. Moulton, who indicated the mine operated about 40 years previously. The land owner in 1925 when Moulton did field work in the area was Elizabeth V. Blair (the 1919 Atlas indicates the land owners were Elizabeth and George Blair). The name or company that the mine operated under is not known.
