Mines and Mineral Statistics. 
Tons. 
New Soiitli Wales Shale and Oil Company — 
Petroleum oil cannel coal, used for oil and sold 
for gas purposes in 1874 ... ... ... 9,000 £22,500 0 0 
Total quantity and value in 1873 ... 15,000 46,250 0 0 
Decrease in 1874 6,000 £23,750 0 0 
The above return for 1S7T was furnished me by the Mining 
Department. 
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Value. 
Eecapitulation showing the quantity extracted from the whole 
of the Mines. 
There were twenty-eight collieries raising coal and three 
getting petroleum oil cannel coal and shale, and the aggregate 
production of coal from these collieries in 1871 was 1,208,401) 
tons, valued at £786,152 173. 
The aggregate production of petroleum oil cannel coal and 
petroleum oil shale in 1874 was 12,100 tons, valued at £27,300. 
Ketten of the Number of Coal Mines and Quantity and Talue of Coal 
raised, from the years 1864 to 1S74 inclusire. 
Year. 
umber. 
Quantity. 
Value. 
1864 
25 
549,012^ 
£ s. d. 
270,171 11 0 
1865 
24 
585,525^ 
274,303 13 9 
1866 
25 
774,238 
324,019 6 7 
1867 
26 
770,0124 
342,655 7 8 
1868 
28 
954,230^ 
417,809 6 1 
1869 
33 
9i9,773f 
346,145 16 5 
1870 
32 
868,5641 
316,835 16 4 
1871 
27 
898,7844 
316,340 2 1 
1872 
26 
1,012,426^- 
396,197 19 10 
1873 
29 
1,192,861-i 
665,746 17 3 
1874 
28 
1,298,400 
786,152 17 0 
Erom the foregoing returns we find that onr coal trade is year 
by year increasing in a most satisfactory manner, and has never 
been in such prosperous coudition as it is at the present time. 
Many new Companies have been formed, as well as very large 
areas of coal laud taken up in various parts of the Colony, with 
the intention of working the coal from under it. If this rapid 
increased demand for our coal could have been foreseen a few years 
ao’o, and the shipping facilities at Newcastle had been greater 
than they now are, we should have had a much larger production 
