Mine Index Number: 4911
| Company Name:
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| Mine Name:
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| Start Date:
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Circa 1865
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End Date:
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1940
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| Type of Mine:
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Underground
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| Total acres shown:
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None
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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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| Slope
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Rock Island
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16N 5W
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5
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SW NE NE
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| Slope
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Rock Island
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16N 5W
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5
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NW SE NE
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Geology
| Rock Island
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90-113
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2.0-2.2
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RP
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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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| Unknown According to local residents, 6 slope mines and 1 shaft mine operated along the nearby stream. The mines operated during the Civil War and the last one closed around 1940. The names of the operators are unknown.
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circa 1865-1940
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unknown
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Production Notes
Coal Report production (if available)
Sources of Data
| ISGS field notes (D. M. Moody)
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1958
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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)
| ISGS field notes (Rock Island County) - Mine type, mine locations, depth, thickness.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
Photographs
