Mines and Mineral Statistics. 
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Catherine Hill Bat, Lake Macquarie, and Redhead 
Districts. 
Grey post and conglomerate. 
Coal 1 Q 
Indurated clay, &c 2 2 
Coal 1 5 
Band 0 0 ^ 
Coal 1 0 
Band 0 0^ 
Coal 1 6 
Stone band 0 
Coal I 2 
Band 0 Ok 
Coal 0 10 
Band 0 0 | 
Coal 1 21 
Band 0 Ok 
Coal 0 9 
Band, runs out sometimes 0 0 ^ 
Coal 2 0 
Total thickness ... 14 0| 
This represents a section of the No. 2 seam of coal worked at 
the New Wallsend Company’s Colliery, at Catherine Hill Bay, 
near Lake Macquarie. It is the No. 2, or second seam of coal m 
our Upper Coal Measures, is Id feet in thickness, and the portion 
at present worked averages about G feet 8 inches, and dips 1 in 20 
to 1 in 30 in a westerly direction. This is a new colliery opened 
out by Thomas Hale, Esq., and others, on 2G7 acres of land (see 
H on plan No. 1) fronting the Pacific Ocean and Catherine Hill 
Bay ; it is bounded on the north by Messrs. Brown, Lamb, and 
others, and on the south and west by Messrs. Pope, Harding, 
and others, on which lands the same seam of coal is to be found. 
