Mine Index Number: 3792
| Company Name:
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Diamond Coal Company
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| Mine Name:
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Old Diamond Mine
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| Start Date:
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1870
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End Date:
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1879
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| Type of Mine:
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Underground
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| Total acres shown:
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[1]
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| Acres after map date:
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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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| Shaft
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Vermilion
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19N 12W
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12
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NE SE NW
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Geology
Geological Problems Reported
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
Coal Report production (if available)
Sources of Data
| ISGS mine notes
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Undated
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(text only)
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1:24000 [4]
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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, mining method.
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| Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (Vermilion County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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| Mine notes (Vermilion County) - Mine location, seam, depth, thickness.
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| History of Vermilion County, Lottie E. Jones - Mine ownership, years of operation, mine type.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
Photographs
Notes
- ↑ A general area of mining of the shape described below under production was constructed to indicate the area undermined. This general area of mining is contiguous to the area shown for mine index 3791 (Contract Mine on Western Brick lands) and the Economy Mine (mine index 3785).
- ↑ Operated by General Carnahan
- ↑ Production unknown prior to fiscal year 1878-1879; for this reason, no total production is given for this mine. A local resident (Pichon) is recorded in the mine notes as indicating that the mine extended about a mile north [from theshaft?], to the river south, west to a brickyard and about a mile east to the hill just before 7th Street. This large general area of mining is also coded for the Economy Mine (mine index 3785), where Pichon is reported to have worked as a miner, and mine index 3791, one of the underground Contract mines.
- ↑ The mine location was plotted on a 1:24,000 USGS topographic map from the mine location description and digitized.
