Mine Index Number: 6213
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Quincy Coal Company
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| Mine Name:
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Unknown Mine
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| Start Date:
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Unknown
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End Date:
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Unknown
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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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The Quincy Coal Company generally operated four to six shafts concurrently, sinking two shafts every year, and abandoning two other shafts. New shafts were sunk within 600 feet of another and connected underground to the adjacent shaft. About 20 acres would be mined for each shaft (40 acres total for the two adjacent shafts) and that location would be abandoned. There are seven shafts identified as Quincy Coal Company (mine index numbers 6203, 6204, 6209, 6213, 6230, 6237, and 6248), but none of these are identified with the mine name. The Coal Reports identified 15 shafts (Numbers 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35 and 36) beginning in the 1881-1882 fiscal year, but with no location information. (See the unlocated mines at the back of this report.) No maps have been found for any of the Quincy Coal Company mines. According to The History of McDonough County, the company began around 1855 under Thomas Rundle. The latest mining under the Quincy Coal Company name in this area was 1897. The total tonnage mined by this company after June 1881 was 837,783, which represents between 380 and 525 acres.
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Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)
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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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| Main shaft
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McDonough
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5N 3W
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18
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NE NW SW
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Geology
| Colchester All the Quincy Coal Company mines worked in the Colchester Coal with room-and-pillar method. Depth and thickness values are the ranges reported for all the Quincy Coal Company mines in the Coal Reports from 1882 to 1897.
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60-100 All the Quincy Coal Company mines worked in the Colchester Coal with room-and-pillar method. Depth and thickness values are the ranges reported for all the Quincy Coal Company mines in the Coal Reports from 1882 to 1897.
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2.0-2.83 All the Quincy Coal Company mines worked in the Colchester Coal with room-and-pillar method. Depth and thickness values are the ranges reported for all the Quincy Coal Company mines in the Coal Reports from 1882 to 1897.
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RP All the Quincy Coal Company mines worked in the Colchester Coal with room-and-pillar method. Depth and thickness values are the ranges reported for all the Quincy Coal Company mines in the Coal Reports from 1882 to 1897.
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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
| Federal Land Bank Report
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3-1936
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1:124800
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1:124800
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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, mine type, seam, depth, thickness, mining method.
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| Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (McDonough County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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| Federal Land Bank Report (McDonough County) - Shaft location.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
Photographs
