Outlines of areas mined for the Wade Coal in Illinois. Mining in this seam ceased ca. 1940. This information was extracted from detailed coal mine data stored in the ISGS Coal Section library database. Lines delineate the approximate outer boundary of individual mines (if known) or general mined areas. Interior mine boundaries such as pillars or small blocks of unmined coal are commonly not depicted. Outlines have been compiled from a variety of sources. Outlines of areas mined before 1987 are commonly from source maps at scales of 1:62,500 or smaller. Outlines of areas mined since 1987 are commonly digitized at scales ranging from 1:4800 to 1:12,000. Mines whose extent is not known or which only mined a few acres are not included in this coverage. Additional information is available from the Coal Section of the Illinois State Geological Survey. Mine outlines from completed Coal Mine Quadrangle Studies were included in this feature class if applicable. An ongoing study, the detailed Coal Mine Quadrangle maps depict the best-known position of mine boundaries with respect to individual properties as located on a USGS topographic map image base. For a list of completed quadrangles please visit the ISGS Coal Section website or contact the Coal Section. This datafile was compiled and updated in 2014 in order to provide a current, state-wide data set showing surface and underground coal mines of the Wade Coal. Due to the wide range of source map scales, these data are suitable for regional applications only at the 1:100,000 scale or smaller.

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County Coal Data and MapsThe Coal Resource Maps include structural elevation, depth, thickness, sulfur, and chlorine maps of the Colchester, Danville, Davis, Dekoven, Herrin, Jamestown, Seelyville, and Springfield Coals. The Coal Mine Maps are maps compiled by the ISGS of known mines: underground and surface coal mines as well as underground industrial mines. Buffer regions for industrial mineral underground mines were incorporated into the maps due to limited information regarding these mines. The size of the buffer region is dependent on the uncertainty or inaccuracy of the mine location based on the quality of the source material. For more information regarding industrial mines please contact the ISGS Industrial Minerals Section. The accompanying coal mine directory for each county provides basic information about the coal mines. Coal has been mined in 77 counties in Illinois and more than 7,400 coal mines have operated since commercial mining began in 1810. Our maps of known mines for each of these counties may help the public to identify mined areas. Please note, however, that the accuracy and completeness of the mine maps and directories vary depending on the availability and quality of source material. Little or no information is available for many mines, especially the older ones, because mining activity was not regulated or documented until the late 1800's. Even then, reporting requirements were minimal. In cooperation with the Illinois State Geological Survey, the Office of Mines and Minerals (a division of the Department of Natural Resources) is in search of old underground mine maps of Illinois. Many of the undocumented maps are believed to be in libraries, historical societies and personal files of old mine employees. The Department asks that anyone who knows of one of these maps, please contact the Department at (618) 650-3197 or by emailing brent.guttmann@illinois.gov(link sends e-mail). A map specialist will come to your location, if you wish. Otherwise maps can be mailed, or you may stop by one of our offices in Edwardsville, Springfield, Ottawa, or Benton. These maps will be checked against our existing inventory. If found to be a new discovery, they will be electronically imaged and returned to the owner (if requested). The Coal Logs are non-confidential coal log descriptions from the Coal Section's stratigraphic database located in the county. These are part of the basis for the coal resource maps. NOTE: A 1:100,000 scale county mine map with directory is available for purchase and can be ordered by contacting the ISGS at (217) 244-2414, or email at sales@prairie.illinois.edu(link sends e-mail). A 1:24,000 scale color plot version of each available quadrangle with directory is also available for purchase. The County Coal Resource maps have been supported, in part, by the contract Maintenance of Coal Resource and Mine Data from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, Office of Mines and Minerals. Note: These maps are made available at this time in draft form only. They have not yet been reviewed to the normal standards of the Illinois State Geological Survey (ISGS) review process. They are made available in this manner as an "open file" in order to deliver products to our customers as fast as possible and to meet particular needs that we have encountered in public requests for this information. These maps are PDF files, requiring Adobe Acrobat™ for viewing. (Download Acrobat).

Coal Mines in Illinois Viewer (ILMINES)If you are experiencing issues with interacting with this map, please make sure you have the most up-to-date web browser or try a different web browser. At this time the map may not load properly in the Mobile Google Chrome web browser for android, please try a different web browsing app.Instructions: The Coal Mines in Illinois Viewer illustrates a general depiction of underground mining in the state and will help determine the proximity of coal mines and underground industrial mines to your home or business. Please follow the instructions below for using this viewer and linking to additional map products that contain more information. Read the disclaimer below and click “Okay” when finished. This will bring up the map and search box. In the box that says “Find address or place” enter the address you are looking for and click the magnifying glass to the right or click “enter” on your keyboard. The map will recenter to the location entered. You can also use the navigation tools on the map to navigate to the location you are interested in.Consult the legend on the left for the types of mines displayed. Click on a mine you are interested in. In the box that pops up you will find links to the corresponding Quadrangle and/or County studies for the mine you are looking at. What is the yellow area on the map?Data ExplanationThese data were compiled by the ISGS for known underground and surface coal mines as well as underground industrial mineral mines. For more information including links to coal mine maps and informational directories, coal resource maps, and coal logs please see the County Coal Map Series.The underground coal mine points consist of mine entrances and may also contain uncertain underground mine locations. The underground mine proximity region incorporates coal mines as well as industrial mineral mines, and it was calculated and constructed using the methodology outlined in ISGS Circular 575. These generalized areas are not meant to replace site-specific studies; they conservatively illustrate areas overlying and adjacent to underground coal and industrial mineral mines that may potentially be exposed to subsidence based on 1) angle of draw from the edge of the underground workings up to the land surface, and 2) potential inaccuracy or uncertainty in mine boundary locations. Please see ISGS Circular 575. for a full explanation. Areas outside the proximity region also could be undermined. Old, undocumented mine openings have been discovered in many parts of the state. However, most undocumented mines were prospect pits or short-term operations that undermined only a few acres.The maps and digital files used for this study were compiled from data obtained from a variety of public and private sources and have varying degrees of completeness and accuracy. They present reasonable interpretations of the geology of the area and are based on available data. Locations of some features may be offset by 500 feet or more due to errors in the original source maps, the compilation process, digitizing, or a combination of these factors. These data are not intended for use in site-specific screening or decision-making.If you believe that you have mine subsidence contact your insurance companyand download: Mine Subsidence in Illinois: Facts for Homeowners - Circular 569, 2013, 9 MB PDF fileData DisclaimerThe Illinois State Geological Survey and the University of Illinois make no guarantee, expressed or implied, regarding the correctness of the interpretations presented in this data set and accept no liability for the consequences of decisions made by others on the basis of the information presented here.ISGS Terms of Usehttps://isgs.illinois.edu/terms-useUniversity of Illinois web privacyhttps://www.vpaa.uillinois.edu/resources/web_privacyQuestions about ILMINES/Contact usEmail

All maps, permits, applications and various documents filed with the County Clerk's office from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources regarding mines in Macoupin County.

For Alabama and West Virginia, detailed summary of mine permits with new/recent activity in relation to Random Forests (RF) model results.Comparison of results to new permits.

By EIA coal supply region, total area mapped as new surface mining under differing scenarios (low coal production, high coal production). Minimum Random Forests probability result needed to allocate all new mining is given by regionProduction scenarios by region.

These data are part of a larger USGS project to develop an updated geospatial database of mines, mineral deposits and mineral regions in the United States. Mine and prospect-related symbols, such as those used to represent prospect pits, mines, adits, dumps, tailings, etc., hereafter referred to as “mine” symbols or features, are currently being digitized on a state-by-state basis from the 7.5-minute (1:24,000-scale) and the 15-minute (1:48,000 and 1:62,500-scale) archive of the USGS Historical Topographic Maps Collection, or acquired from available databases (California and Nevada, 1:24,000-scale only). Compilation of these features is the first phase in capturing accurate locations and general information about features related to mineral resource exploration and extraction across the U.S. To date, the compilation of 500,000-plus point and polygon mine symbols from approximately 67,000 maps of 22 western states has been completed: Arizona (AZ), Arkansas (AR), California (CA), Colorado (CO), Idaho (ID), Iowa (IA), Kansas (KS), Louisiana (LA), Minnesota (MN), Missouri (MO), Montana (MT), North Dakota (ND), Nebraska (NE), New Mexico (NM), Nevada (NV), Oklahoma (OK), Oregon (OR), South Dakota (SD), Texas (TX), Utah (UT), Washington (WA), and Wyoming (WY). The process renders not only a more complete picture of exploration and mining in the western U.S., but an approximate time line of when these activities occurred. The data may be used for land use planning, assessing abandoned mine lands and mine-related environmental impacts, assessing the value of mineral resources from Federal, State and private lands, and mapping mineralized areas and systems for input into the land management process. The data are presented as three groups of layers based on the scale of the source maps. No reconciliation between the data groups was done.

Version 10.0 (Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico added) of these data are part of a larger U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) project to develop an updated geospatial database of mines, mineral deposits, and mineral regions in the United States. Mine and prospect-related symbols, such as those used to represent prospect pits, mines, adits, dumps, tailings, etc., hereafter referred to as “mine” symbols or features, have been digitized from the 7.5-minute (1:24,000, 1:25,000-scale; and 1:10,000, 1:20,000 and 1:30,000-scale in Puerto Rico only) and the 15-minute (1:48,000 and 1:62,500-scale; 1:63,360-scale in Alaska only) archive of the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection (HTMC), or acquired from available databases (California and Nevada, 1:24,000-scale only). Compilation of these features is the first phase in capturing accurate locations and general information about features related to mineral resource exploration and extraction across the U.S. The compilation of 725,690 point and polygon mine symbols from approximately 106,350 maps across 50 states, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (PR) and the District of Columbia (DC) has been completed: Alabama (AL), Alaska (AK), Arizona (AZ), Arkansas (AR), California (CA), Colorado (CO), Connecticut (CT), Delaware (DE), Florida (FL), Georgia (GA), Hawaii (HI), Idaho (ID), Illinois (IL), Indiana (IN), Iowa (IA), Kansas (KS), Kentucky (KY), Louisiana (LA), Maine (ME), Maryland (MD), Massachusetts (MA), Michigan (MI), Minnesota (MN), Mississippi (MS), Missouri (MO), Montana (MT), Nebraska (NE), Nevada (NV), New Hampshire (NH), New Jersey (NJ), New Mexico (NM), New York (NY), North Carolina (NC), North Dakota (ND), Ohio (OH), Oklahoma (OK), Oregon (OR), Pennsylvania (PA), Rhode Island (RI), South Carolina (SC), South Dakota (SD), Tennessee (TN), Texas (TX), Utah (UT), Vermont (VT), Virginia (VA), Washington (WA), West Virginia (WV), Wisconsin (WI), and Wyoming (WY). The process renders not only a more complete picture of exploration and mining in the U.S., but an approximate timeline of when these activities occurred. These data may be used for land use planning, assessing abandoned mine lands and mine-related environmental impacts, assessing the value of mineral resources from Federal, State and private lands, and mapping mineralized areas and systems for input into the land management process. These data are presented as three groups of layers based on the scale of the source maps. No reconciliation between the data groups was done.Datasets were developed by the U.S. Geological Survey Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center (GGGSC). Compilation work was completed by USGS National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT) interns: Emma L. Boardman-Larson, Grayce M. Gibbs, William R. Gnesda, Montana E. Hauke, Jacob D. Melendez, Amanda L. Ringer, and Alex J. Schwarz; USGS student contractors: Margaret B. Hammond, Germán Schmeda, Patrick C. Scott, Tyler Reyes, Morgan Mullins, Thomas Carroll, Margaret Brantley, and Logan Barrett; and by USGS personnel Virgil S. Alfred, Damon Bickerstaff, E.G. Boyce, Madelyn E. Eysel, Stuart A. Giles, Autumn L. Helfrich, Alan A. Hurlbert, Cheryl L. Novakovich, Sophia J. Pinter, and Andrew F. Smith.USMIN project website: https://www.usgs.gov/USMIN

Please see the individual layers below to access the detailed metadata.This feature layer contains three datasets:The Mining Boreholes dataset contains GIS points depicting mining boreholes digitized from the U.S. Bureau of Mines (USBM) Illinois Mineral Development Atlas (IMDA) for Jo Daviess County, Illinois. Each point includes a link to a corresponding log (if available). This is one of several datasets complied for the Karst Feature Database of Jo Daviess County, IL and hosted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.The named mines dataset contains GIS polygons depicting surveyed outlines of known (named) mine diggings from the U.S. Bureau of Mines (USBM) Illinois Mineral Department Atlas (IMDA) for Jo Daviess County, Illinois. This is one of several datasets complied for the Karst Feature Database of Jo Daviess County, IL and hosted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.The unnamed mines dataset contains GIS polygons depicting unsurveyed inferred outlines of unknown (unnamed) mine diggings from the U.S. Bureau of Mines (USBM) Illinois Mineral Development Atlas (IMDA) for Jo Daviess County, Illinois. This is one of several datasets complied for the Karst Feature Database of Jo Daviess County, IL and hosted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

In order to support science-based water resource management, a systematic effort was undertaken to characterize the nature and function of the hydrogeology in Jo Daviess County, Illinois. Jo Daviess County is a karst area. Karst is a geologically and hydrologically integrated or interconnected and self-organizing network of landforms and subsurface large-scale, secondary porosity created by a combination of fractured carbonate bedrock, the movement of water into and through the rock body as part of the hydrologic cycle, and physical and chemical weathering (Panno, S.V. et al, 2017). Springs, cover-collapse sinkholes, crevices, and caves are among the defining features of a karst terrain; each of these features is found in Jo Daviess County. Examples of these features have been located in the field and characterized by scientists from the Illinois State Geological and Water Surveys (Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). The lead-zinc ore deposits of the Driftless Area, which includes Jo Daviess County, were emplaced within the Galena Dolomite 270 million years ago (Brannon et al. 1992). Ore-forming and associated solutions (hot brines) migrated through carbonate rocks along existing fractures and were responsible for enlarging many of these fractures into crevices. The crevices and infilling sulfide ore deposits created by these solutions have the same distribution and orientation as those identified as crop lines by Panno, Luman and Kolata (2015) using remote sensing techniques. Consequently, maps of mines and mining activities reflect the fracture and crevice orientations and provide additional information about the physical characteristics of the bedrock and aquifers of the Driftless Area. This dataset was developed from the original IMDA documents by the Illinois State Geological Survey (ISGS) in fulfillment a grant from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) National Geological and Geophysical Data Preservation Program (NGGDPP). The IMDA is a detailed set of paper records for the Lead-Zinc District in Jo Daviess County in northwestern Illinois for the period 1949-1970. The IMDA consists of large-scale (1"=200') 36"x30" sheet section maps depicting mining digs and borehole locations, and a set of 8-1/2"x11" datasheets containing borehole logs and mineral analyses (assays and/or visual estimates at various depths).The following document is directly related to this dataset:Klass, R. and Z. Lasemi. Preservation of Geologic Data and Collections in Illinois: Compilation, Documentation and Planning. Technical Report, Illinois State Geological Survey, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2014-15.The following documents are pertinent references providing background information: Brannon, J.C., F.A. Podosek, and R.K. McLimans, 1992, Alleghenian age of the Upper Mississippi Valley zinc-lead deposits determined by Rb-Sr dating of sphalerite: Nature, v. 356, p. 509–511.Mansberger, F., T. Townsend, and C. Stratton. The People Must be Crazy: The Lead and Zinc Mining Resources of Jo Daviess County, Illinois.Fever River Research, Springfield, Illinois, 1997 (revised July, 2020). http://illinoisarchaeology.com/Lead%20Mine%20Report%20Revised.pdf