Mine Index 6608 East Belleville Coal Company, East Belleville Mine

Mine Index Number: 6608

Company Name:	East Belleville Coal Company
Mine Name:	East Belleville Mine
Start Date:	Pre 1874	End Date:	Unknown
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	10
Acres after map date:		General Area of mining acres shown:

Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)

Type	County	Township-Range	Section	Part Section

Main shaft

St. Clair

1N 8W

26

NW NW NE

Air shaft

St. Clair

1N 8W

26

NW NW NE

Geology

		Thickness (ft)
Seam	Depth (ft)	Min	Max	Ave	Mining Method

Herrin

RPB

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

East Belleville Coal Company (add)	East Belleville (add)	unknown No production reported under this name. The 1874 Atlas of St. Clair County shows a mine at this location, indicating that mining was taking place in the early 1870s.	Unknown
Total Production: Unknown

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

ISGS map library, 4103.S31 i5.1-57

6-1-1970

1:2400

1:4966

Secondary source

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation.

Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (St. Clair County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.

Mine notes (St. Clair County) - Shaft location, mine type, seam, depth, thickness.

ISGS map library, 4103.S31 i5.1-57, map of Belle Valley Mine (mine index 0929) - Shaft locations, mine outline, mining method.

Atlas of St. Clair County, Illinois, 1874, Warner & Beers, Chicago, Illinois - Years of operation.