Mine Index Number: 4458
| Company Name:
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Bluebird Coal Company
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| Mine Name:
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Bluebird No. 4 Pit
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| Start Date:
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1935
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End Date:
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Unknown
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| Type of Mine:
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Surface
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| Total acres shown:
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None [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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| Tipple
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Williamson
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9S 4E
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30
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NE cor SW SE [2]
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| Pit
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Williamson
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9S 4E
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30
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W ½ NE SW
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| Pit
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Williamson
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9S 4E
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30
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SE SE SW
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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
| 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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| ISGS field notes (E. T. Benson)
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8-4-1935
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(text only)
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1:24000 [5]
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Secondary source
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Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)
| 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.
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| ISGS field notes (Williamson County) - Pit locations.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
Photographs
Notes
- ↑ Production is unknown and the size cannot be estimated.
- ↑ Some confusion exists on the location; the mine notes also indicated the mine was located in 33-T9S-R5E
- ↑ The Coal Reports did not list the production for Pit 4 separately; production and years of operation are unknown. See Mine Index 4087, Bluebird Mine
- ↑ The mine location was plotted on a 1:24,000 USGS topographic map from the mine location description and digitized.
- ↑ The mine location was plotted on a 1:24,000 USGS topographic map from the mine location description and digitized.
