Mine Index Number: 4226
| Company Name:
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Joe Cooksey Coal Company
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| Mine Name:
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Cooksey No. 1 Mine
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| Start Date:
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1949
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End Date:
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1954
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| Type of Mine:
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Surface
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| Total acres shown:
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None Tab Mine (mine index 891) includes the area for this mine, as well as its mining from 1967 to 1972.
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| Acres after map date:
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4
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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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| Pit
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Jackson
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9S 1W
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36
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SW NE SE
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Geology
| Murphysboro
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4.0-6.0
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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
| Mine notes
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Undated
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(text only)
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1:24000 The mine location was plotted on a 1:24000 USGS topographic map from the mine location description and digitized.
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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 (Jackson County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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| Mine notes (Jackson County) - Mine location, seam, thickness.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
Photographs
