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COALFIELDS AND COLLIERIES OF AUSTRALIA. 



The Broken Hill Proprietary Co. 



The coke supply for this company is obtained from its own 

 works at Bellanibi . It obtains the necessary coal from the 

 South Bulli and Bellanibi collieries. There are two batteries 

 of ovens, one containing 60 and the other 40 ovens. These 

 ovens are 30 feet long, and somewhat higher than usual. The 

 coke is pushed out of the ovens by hydraulic rams (Fig. 125). 

 The oven doors are also raised by means of hydraulic rams 

 placed at one end of a battery of ovens (Fig. 126), which work 

 ropes backwards and forwards, to which any of the doors can 

 be attached by chains when required. The rope for moving 



Fig. 126. Hydraulic- Ram for lifting Oven Doors. 



the rams that push out the coke circulates past both batteries 

 of ovens. These ovens differ from the ordinary rectangular 

 ovens met with in Australia, inasmuch as they have flues both 

 in their walls and floor, through which the hot gases pass, thus 

 heating the ovens all round. 



The Corrimal Balgownie Collieries Ltd. 

 The Corrimal Colliery was started in 1887-88, by Bertram, 

 in whose time the coal was drawn from the mine to the rail- 

 way by bullock teams. After working for about a year, it was 

 leased by the Southern Coal Company, of England. This 

 company worked it until 1891; when the present Sydney com- 



