Mine Index Number: 3360
| Company Name:
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Star Coal Company
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| Mine Name:
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Star No. 2 Mine
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| Start Date:
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1887
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End Date:
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1901
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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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| Production Indicated Acres:
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350
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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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Grundy
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33N 8E
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34
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NW NE SW
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| Air shaft
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Grundy
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33N 8E
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34
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NW NE SW No original company maps of this mine have been found, but the Sanborn Map Company showed the air shaft to beapproximately 210 feet north of the main shaft. This location is very general and the air shaft is not shown on the accompanying map.
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Geology
| Colchester
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120
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3.0
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LW (old longwall)
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Geological Problems Reported
A slip in the roof cause one death in 1897.
Production
| Company
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Mine Name
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Date
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Production (tons)
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| Total Production: 1,721,454
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Production Notes
Coal Report production (if available)
Sources of Data
| Plat Book of Grundy County, Illinois
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1892
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1:31680
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1:31680
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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, thickness, geologic problems, mining method.
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| Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (Grundy County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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| Plat Book of Grundy County, Illinois, Compiled & published by Geo. A. Ogle & Co., Chicago, Illinois - Shaft location.
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| Sanborn Map Company (Coal City) - Shaft locations, depth.
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| USGS topographic map, Coal City, 1953, Photo revised 1980 - Mine location.
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