Mine Index Number: 3447
| Company Name:
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Ed Rauft
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| Mine Name:
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Peak's Mine
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| Start Date:
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1899
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End Date:
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1911
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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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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 drift
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Scott
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15N 13W
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25
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SW NW NW
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Geology
| Colchester
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28-55
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2.2
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2.8
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2.33-2.5
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RP
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Geological Problems Reported
The immediate roof was 16 inches of soapstone. Pyrite was present as lenses and fracture facings.
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
A mine was shown in the mine notes at this location, but named Peak’s Mine. As the location encompasses 10 acres, it is possible, even likely, that two different mines worked the same location. However, the mine notes are not dated, and no operator named Peak was listed in the Coal Reports, so the data from both operators are concatenated here.
Coal Report production (if available)
Sources of Data
| Mine notes (John S. Ivy)
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Undated
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1:62500
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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, mine type, depth, thickness, mining method.
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| Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (Scott County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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| Mine notes (Scott County) - Mine type, drift location, thickness, geologic problems.
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Mine Notes
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