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adits are driTen into it, and an incline and horse tramway, of 
about 2 1 miles in length, conveys the coal from the mine to tho 
Wollongong Harbour before described. Tho quantity of coal 
sold from this colliery in 1874 was 37,790 tons, valued at £1G,0G3, 
and the average daily number of miners, labourers, and others, 
was ninety-seven, and thirty boys. Mr. Johnson is the Mining 
Manager, and J. B. Winship, Esq., the Colliery Viewer, 
The Motjjstt Kembla Coal akd Shale Mines at Ameeican 
Creek, near Wollongong. 
Hero is a seam, 18 inches to 2 feet in thickness, of petroleum 
oil schist, which has for many years been worked, and kerosene 
oil, benzine and lubricating oil, Ac., manufactured therefrom by 
works erected at the mi]ie, and the oil sold in Wollongong, Sydney, 
and other places. 
The quantity of petroleum oil schist used for the manufacture 
of oil in 1874 was 1,000 tons, valued at £500, and tliey employed 
daily on an average fourteen miners, four wheelers, and one 
overman. 
Coal lands in the Southern District lohich have leen prospected in 
the year 1874. 
County of Camden. 
Brereton’s Coal Mine, near Berrima, has raised 1,000 tons of 
coal in 1874, valued at £1,250 ; but no notice of opening out 
having been sent to this office, I had no idea that it was at work 
or I should have examined it, and now given a section of the 
seam, which is, I understand, very thick, and of a good bituminous 
quality. 
Campbell Mitchell, Esq., and others, have taken up and done 
some prospecting on large areas of land in the neighbourhood of 
the Eitzroy Iron Mines, near Nattai, on ths Great Southern 
Eailway. Mr. Mitchell informs me that one seam which he has 
opened out is 12 ft. in thickness, exclusive of bands. 
JoAD.TA Creek, in the county of Camden. 
Messrs. Brown & Lamb, Larkins, and others, have taken up 
a considerable quantity of land at Joadja Creek, situated about 
12 miles from the Great Houthern Eailway, near Berrima, where 
there is a very rich deposit of petroleum oil cannel coal. Mr. 
Brown kindly accompanied me on my inspection, and pointed 
out the different provings and drives they had made in tho seam. 
