Mine Index Number: 5808
| Company Name:
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Purington Paving Brick
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| Mine Name:
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Purington Mine
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| Start Date:
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1929
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End Date:
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1935
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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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| 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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| Pit
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Livingston
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30N 3E
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12
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N ½ NE
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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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| Purington Paving Brick Company
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Purington
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1929-1935
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unknown Production was not reported for mines producing less than 1,000 tons per year from 1930 to 1934. This company was not listed in the Coal Reports in 1929 or 1934-1935. The mine was principally used to produced clay for building and paving brick and all the coal produced from the pit was used at the brick plant. The shale above the coal was 30 feet thick and used for brick and another 20 feet below the coal was mined for brick after the coal was removed.
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Production Notes
Coal Report production (if available)
Sources of Data
| ISGS field notes (H. B. Willman)
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8-20-1929
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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)
| Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (Livingston County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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| ISGS field notes (Livingston County) - Mine type, mine location, seam, depth, thickness.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
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