866 



COAL 



Litt of Collieries and Kerosene and SJtale Mines in New South Wales, with the Number 

 of Persons employed, and Quantity of Mineral raised, in 1869. 



In 1872 there were 20 collieries raising coal, and 3 raising petroleum oil, cannel 

 oil, and shale. 



In the Newcastle District 7 collieries . 



Anvil Creek, Stony and Four Mile Creek 

 District 4 collieries .... 

 Murrurundi District 1 colliery . 

 Illawarra District 5 collieries . 

 Lithgow Valley District 3 collieries . 

 New South Wales Shale Oil Co. 



Total Coal and Oil Shale . 



Tons 

 producing 858,716 



24,032 

 300 



123,681 

 5,221 

 8,000 



Value 

 73,561 



4,449 



600 



48,780 



1,656 

 24,000 



1,019,950 153,046 



QUBKNSLAKD in 1863 exported 4,228 tons. The produce of the collieries being in 

 1861, 14,212 tons; in 1862, 24,067 tons; and in 1863, 2,400 tons. 



Mr. K. Daintree, in his ' Notes on the Geology of the Colony of Queensland,' has 

 the following remarks on the coal of that colony : 



Up to the present time, within all the area occupied by Carbonaceous Mesozoic 

 Strata, only the Maryborough beds have yielded fossil remains other than plants. OP 

 the tributaries of the Condamino, Brisbane, and Mary rivers, where numerous coal- 

 seams are known to exist, several of which have been and are worked, the plant 

 remains are of the same character.' Mr. Daintree then gives a list of the fossils from 

 the Tivoli coal-mine, and then proceeds : 



