SOME ANALYSES OF NOVA SCOTIA COALS, ETC. GILPIN. 247 



North or No. 3 Slope North Seam : 



Moisture 271 



Volatile combustible matter 28-41 



Fixed Carbon 64'69 



Ash 419 



100-00 

 Sulphur 79 



Analyst J. T. DONALD, Montreal. 



These analyses show the coals to be of excellent quality. 

 The amounts of ash and sulpher are small, and that of the fixed 

 carbon is large. 



These analyses are interesting when compared with a set of 

 analyses of the same seams made by me in the year 1881, and I 

 believe not hitherto published, and with an analysis of the 

 Black seam made by me in the year 1880, and published in the 

 Transactions of the North of England Institute of Mining 

 Engineers, in a paper on Canadian Coals, giving a full set of 

 analyses of Nova Scotia coals, their ashes, etc. 



The analyses made in the year 1881 are as follows : 



East Slope Black or Main Seam : 



Moisture , 3'86 



Volatile Combustible Matter, Fast Coking. . 35'65 



Slow " .. 26- 16 



Fixed Carbon Fast " . . 59-90 



Slow " .. 65-23 



Ash 4-45 



Specific Gravity 1'29 



Theoretical Evaporative Power 8.858 Ibs. 



West Slope South Seam : 



Moisture 1/399 



Volatile Combustible Matter, Fast Coking. 34-808 



Slow " . 31-225 



Fixed Carbon ' Fast " . 58'003 



Slow " . 61-586 



Ash 5790 



Sulphur '808 



Theoretical Evaporative Power. 8*46 Ibs. 



