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Some states, such as Illinois and West Virginia, require all homeowners insurance providers in the state to offer mine subsidence insurance coverage in affected counties. In Illinois, there are 34 ...
Land subsidence outside of Ruler Foods in Belleville, Ill., where an old mine below the store caused the land surrounding the building to sink into the ground on Sept. 26, 2023.
The Illinois Department of Mines and Minerals' Springfield Mine Rescue Station is a historic facility located at 609 Princeton Avenue in Springfield, Illinois.Built in 1910–11, it was the first dedicated state-run institution in the United States established to prevent and respond to mining disasters.
Mines in Illinois (1 P) Mining communities in Illinois (1 C, 3 P) Pages in category "Mining in Illinois" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
Illinois Department of Natural Resources spokesperson Brandon Damm said the Edwardsville office of the Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation Division had no reports of mine subsidence as of noon Thursday.
The Illinois Basin is a Paleozoic depositional and structural basin in the United States, centered in and underlying most of the state of Illinois, and extending into southwestern Indiana and western Kentucky. The basin is elongate, extending approximately 400 miles (640 km) northwest-southeast, and 200 miles (320 km) southwest-northeast.
Old Ben Coal Mine No. 16, also called Sesser Mine, operated from 1905-1923. [6] Subsidence resulting from longwall mining at the Old Ben No. 21 mine, by Old Ben Coal Company, was a concern for some local homeowners in the 1980s. [7] The No. 21 mine, opened in 1952, was idled in 1991. [6]
Subsidence frequently causes major problems in karst terrains, where dissolution of limestone by fluid flow in the subsurface creates voids (i.e., caves).If the roof of a void becomes too weak, it can collapse and the overlying rock and earth will fall into the space, causing subsidence at the surface.