Mine Index 3672 Consolidated Coal Company of St. Louis, Fairmount Mine

Mine Index Number: 3672

Company Name:	Consolidated Coal Company of St. Louis
Mine Name:	Fairmount Mine
Start Date:	1890	End Date:	1906
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	217
Production Indicated Acres:	6	General Area of mining acres shown:

Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)

Type	County	Township-Range	Section	Part Section

Main shaft

Vermilion

18N 13W

3

NW NE SW

Air shaft The air shaft location is not identified on the source map. It is only identified hand-drawn on a later print out of the map by an unknown source, so the location may be imprecise.

Vermilion

18N 13W

3

NW NE SW The air shaft location is not identified on the source map. It is only identified hand-drawn on a later print out of the map by an unknown source, so the location may be imprecise.

Geology

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

Danville

225

4.5-5.0

RPP

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

Fairmount Coal Mining Company (add)	Fairmount (add)	1890-1892	42,871

Consolidated Coal Company of St. Louis (add)	Fairmount (add)	1892-1906	898,998

Consolidated Coal Company of St. Louis (add)	Fairmount (add)	1906-1906	27,638 Production after map date

Total Production: 969,507

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

State archive, MSHA_1041_01

3-1906

1:2400

1:2400

Not final

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation.

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

Mine notes (Vermilion County) - Mine type, shaft location, seam, depth, thickness.

State archive, MSHA_1041_01 - Shaft location, mine outline, mining method.