Mine Index 3754 C. H. Trosper, Bunting Mine

Mine Index Number: 3754

Company Name:	C. H. Trosper
Mine Name:	Bunting Mine
Start Date:	1885	End Date:	1895
Type of Mine:	Surface
Total acres shown:	12
Acres after map date:		General Area of mining acres shown:
The area shown is larger than expected for the production listed. A 1952 source map for Kedas Coal Company (mine index 0656) indicates this area was re-mined (and enlarged) at a later date.

Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)

Type	County	Township-Range	Section	Part Section

Pit

Vermilion

19N 11W

33

SW NW

Geology

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

Herrin

65-100

6.0-6.67

Surface

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

Bunting Brothers (add)	Bunting (add)	1885-1891	10,216

Henry Howard (add)	Bunting (add)	1891-1893 Idle 1893	700

Bunting Brothers (add)	Bunting (add)	1893-1894 The mine notes indicate that this mine continued operation until 1900.	5,108

C. H. Trosper (add)	Bunting (add)	1894-1895 The mine notes indicate that this mine continued operation until 1900.	1,200

Total Production: 17,224

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

ISGS mine notes

Undated

(text only)

1:24000 Point plotted onto 1:24,000 USGS topographic map and digitized.

Undated

USGS topographic map

PR 1978

1:24000

1:24000

Secondary source

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation, seam, depth, thickness, mining method.

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

Mine notes (Vermilion County) - Mine type, mine location.

USGS topographic map, 1966, Photorevised 1978 - Mine outline, mining method.