Mine Index Number: 4160
| Company Name:
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Sugar Creek Coal Company
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| Mine Name:
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Sugar Creek No. 1 Mine
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| Start Date:
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1956
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End Date:
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August 1959
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| Type of Mine:
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Surface
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| Total acres shown:
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None
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| Production Indicated Acres:
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1
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General Area of mining acres shown:
|
|
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The mine area is within a larger surface mine.
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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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| Tipple / pit
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Williamson
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10S 4E
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17
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NW SW NW
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| Pit
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Williamson
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10S 4E
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17
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SE NE
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Geology
| Dekoven
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20-28
|
|
|
5.5
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Surface
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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
| USGS topographic map
|
1978
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1:24000
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1:24000
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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.
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| Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (Williamson County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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| Mine notes (Williamson County) - Mine type, mine location, seam, depth, thickness.
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| USGS topographic map, Crab Orchard Quadrangle, 1965, Photorevised 1990 - Mine outline, mining method.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
Photographs
Notes
- ↑ The mine changed ownership in May 1959, but continued to operate under the same name.
