Mine Index 3351 Panther Creek Mines, Inc., Panther Creek No. 5 Mine

Mine Index Number: 3351

Company Name:	Panther Creek Mines, Inc.
Mine Name:	Panther Creek No. 5 Mine
Start Date:	1875	End Date:	December 1952
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	1,805
Acres after map date:	9	General Area of mining acres shown:

Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)

Type	County	Township-Range	Section	Part Section

Shaft

Sangamon

16N 5W

22

SE SW NE

Air shaft

Sangamon

16N 5W

10

SW SW SW

Geology

		Thickness (ft)
Seam	Depth (ft)	Min	Max	Ave	Mining Method

Springfield

244

5.5

6.5

5.8

RPP

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

Springfield Cooperative Coal Company (add)	New North (add)	1875-1925	4,054,298 Production from 1875-1882 unknown. The 1882 Coal Report indicated 35 acres were mined.

New North Coal Company (add)	New North (add)	1925-1929	333,425

Panther Creek Mines, Inc. (add)	Panther Creek No. 5 (add)	1929-1952	5,766,343

Panther Creek Mines, Inc. (add)	Panther Creek No. 5 (add)	1952-1952	46,479 Production after map date

Total Production: 10,200,545

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

Microfilm, document 351208

4-15-1952

1:2400

1:5297

Not final

WPA, T16N-R5W

1938-1940

1:12000

1:29333

Secondary source

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation.

Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (Sangamon County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.

ENR Document 85/01 - Mining method.

Mine notes (Sangamon County) - Shaft location, depth, thickness.

Microfilm map, document 351208, reel 03134, frames 389-394 - Shaft locations, mine outline.

WPA map, T16N-R5W - Mine outline (south part only).