Mine Index Number: 3235
| Company Name:
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Rural Coal Company
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| Mine Name:
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Rural Mine
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| Start Date:
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1922
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End Date:
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1944
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| Type of Mine:
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Underground
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| Total acres shown:
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14
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| Production Indicated Acres:
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2
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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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Rock Island
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16N 1W
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3
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NW NW NE
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| Air shaft
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Rock Island
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16N 1W
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3
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NW NW NE
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Geology
| Rock Island
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96-100
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3.5
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6
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4.0
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MRP[1]
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Geological Problems Reported
Sag subsidence occurred near the shaft of this mine. This subsidence was rectified. The source map shows roof falls in rooms in the southwestern part of the mine. The northern part of the western side of the mine had some areas with pulled pillars and two rooms with roof falls.
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
| Microfilm, document 352749
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1-1-1939
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1:600
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1:1324
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Not final
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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 (Rock Island County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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| ENR Document 85/01 - Mining method.
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| Mine notes (Rock Island County) - Mine type, shaft location, seam, depth, thickness.
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| Microfilm map, document 352749, reel 03140, frame 248 - Shaft locations, mine outline, mining method, geologic problems.
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| Atlas of Rock Island County, 1905, Iowa Publishing Company, 184p. - Years of operation.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
Photographs
Notes
- ↑ Some pillars had been pulled
- ↑ M. W. Preston was the owner of the Rural Coal Company. The source map showed the operator to be B. Posten. A mine was shown at (or near) this location in the 1905 Atlas of Rock Island County, indicating that some earlier mining probably occurred nearby.
