Mine Index Number: 3919
Company Name:
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Chicago, Wilmington and Vermilion Coal Company
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Mine Name:
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B Mine
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Start Date:
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Before 1873
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End Date:
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Before 1881
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Type of Mine:
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Underground
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Total acres shown:
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907 [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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Main shaft
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Will
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32N 9E
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5
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NW SE SW
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Geology
Colchester
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LW (old longwall)
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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 map library, 4103.W51 i5.1-4
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1935
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1:31680
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1:31680
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Secondary source
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Atlas of Will County
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1873
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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)
Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (Will County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation, seam.
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Mine notes (Will County) - Shaft location.
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ISGS map library, 4103.W51 i5.1-4, sheet 1, work map compiled from J. C. Quade (Federal Land Bank Report) notes & maps - Mine outline, ownership.
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Atlas Map of Will County, Illinois, compiled & published by Thompson Brothers & Burr, Elgin Illinois, 1873 - Shaft location.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
Photographs
Notes
- ↑ The boundaries between separate mines could not be distinguished. The area shown includes Chicago, Wilmington and Vermilion Coal Company’s B Mine (mine index 3919), H Mine (mine index 3923), G Mine (mine index 3926), E Mine (mine index 3929) and C Mine (mine index 3931).
- ↑ This mine was not listed in the Coal Reports. The B Mine probably opened and closed before 1881, when the G Mine was the reported active mine. The 1873 Atlas of Will County shows the shaft for this mine, indicating that mining was taking place in the early 1870s.