Mines and Mineral Statistics, 
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Hero we have a section of the seam of coal woi'kcd at the 
Anvil Creek Colliery. (See P on plan No. 1), adjoining the Great 
Northern Kaihvay, and connected therewith by a short tramway 
at a distance of 32 miles from the Newcastle Harbour. 
It is II feet 6i inches in tinckness, dips at the rate of 1 in 9 
to the west, and is worked from a sliaft 100 feet in depth. 
It is a splint coal of excellent quality, suitable for steam, 
household, smelting, gas, and other purposes, specific gravity 
about 1'25, and from its luu'd splinty nature, it is a coal that bears 
transhipment and carriage well, as it will not readily break and 
form itself into slack. 
This Comj)any was formed last year, and their yield of coal is 
steadily on the increase, and 1 understand it meets with a ready 
sale in foreign and intercolonial markets. They have one 10 
h-p. winding engine, and seventy coal waggons tor taking the coal 
from the mine to the Newcastle Harbour. 
The quantity of coal raised in 1871 was 21,000 tons, valued at 
£1(5,800, and they employed daily when working, ninety miners, 
thirteen labourers and others, and ten boys. 
Mr. JSwinburn is now the Colliery Manager, and J . B. M iuship, 
Esq., the Colliery A'iewer. 
