Mine Index Number: 7430
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| Mine Name:
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Nettle Mine
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| Start Date:
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Pre 1875
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End Date:
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1882
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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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| Main drift
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Crawford
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5N 12W
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24
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NE The location was not specific, but is likely along one of the intermittent streams in the vicinity. Rather than one drift, the mining took place in a series of drift entries, as the Worthen description ran, “it has been mined here for several years at intervals, by tunneling into the bank along the line of the outcrop, but no permanent entry was constructed, and when work stopped the roof caved in and filled the opening so that a new entry was required as often as the work was resumed.”
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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
| Worthen and Rokker
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1882
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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 (Crawford County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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| Worthen and Rokker, 1882, Economic Geology of Illinois - Mine type, drift location, seam, thickness.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
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