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• County: Fremont
• Document: FROMSIC
• Suffix: A

TABLE TWO -- FREMONT COUNTY
MINE NAME COMMENTS ON FEATURES

Beacon *: One vertical opening. Opening is over air shaft; 15' in diameter, 10' deep; nearly filled
(cont.) by soil, rock and trash; barbed wire fence around pit is in poor condition; less than 100'
from county road. Access deterrence poor.
S: Four subsidence pits and one trough. First pit is 15' in diameter, 10' deep and overlies
air shaft. Two pits are 15' in diameter, 2' deep and overlie rooms. Fourth pit is 25' in
diameter, 3' deep and overlies hoist shaft. Trough is 75' long, 30' wide, and 8' deep;
trends WNW.
Reclamation for Bassick No. 2 and Beacon Mines: Project hazard abatement work in Spring
1983 consisted of backfilling the inclines using appropriate riprap, coal waste, and top-
soil material. The hazardous shaft openings were also backfilled using a similar graded
fill technique. All areas appropriate for revegetation were covered with a layer of soil
material suitable for plant growth will be revegetated and fenced during the fall of 1983.
Big 3- *: Inclined opening; portal is 4' high, 3' wide, goes underground 100'. Opening is intact,
Dutch Oven portal and incline supported by timber props. Only access deterrent is flimsy wire fencinc
across portal.
F: Mine fire. Coal in Big Three-Dutch Oven mine is on fire. Series of small vent holes alonc
hill slope from ad it to a point 150' east of ad it. Vent holes exhaling steam and other
gases. Largest vent 3' in diameter.
Bluff Springs *: One inclined opening. Opening of incline is 3.5' high, 5' wide; intact incline goes into
Nos. 1 & 2 hillside an unknown distance; no access deterrent.

Key to unique features symbols: Z Multiple mining zones
* Mine opening information
Reclamation and/or plans -- Table Two S Subsidence features
lists hazard abatement work F Mine fires
+ Discrepancy between two sources D Mine drainage -36-