Mine Index Number: 4329
Accessible description: Mine Name and Data Summary
| Company Name:
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Unknown
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| Mine Name:
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Kelly Mine
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| Start Date:
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Circa 1874
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End Date:
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Before 1903
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| Type of Mine:
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Underground
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| Total acres shown:
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9
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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 Type |
County |
Township-Range |
Section |
Part Section
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| Main shaft
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St. Clair
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1N 8W
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6
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SW NW SE
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Geology
| Seam |
Depth (ft) |
Thickness Min |
Thickness max |
Thickness Ave. |
Mining Method
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| Herrin
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108
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5.83
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MRP
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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
| Source Map |
Map Date |
Original Scale |
Digitized Scale |
Map Type
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| Map library, 4103.S31 i5.1-49
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3-21-1903
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1:2400
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1:4966
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Secondary source
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| Bibliography
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| Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation.
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| Bibliography
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| Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (St. Clair County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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| Bibliography
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| ISGS map library, 4103.S31 i5.1-49, map of Knecht Mine (mine index 3502) - Shaft location, mine outline, mining method.
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| Bibliography
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| Mine notes (St. Clair County) - Thickness, depth, seam, mine type, shaft location.
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| Bibliography
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| Atlas of St. Clair County, Illinois, 1874, Warner and Beers, Chicago, Illinois - Years of operation.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
Photographs
Notes
- ↑ No production reported under this name. Map sources indicated Kelly Mine was abandoned prior to 1903. The 1874 Atlas of St. Clair County shows a shaft at this location, indicating that mining was taking place in the early 1870s.
