Mines and Mineral Statistics. 
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ft. in. 
Groy post and conglon:erate. 
Coal 1 Q 
Band 0 1 
Coal 1 11 
Inferior coal 0 2 
Coal 2 9 
Band 0 OJ 
Coal 2 9 
Band 0 0^ 
Coal 1 0 
Grey post. Total thickness ... 10 2.1 
TKis is the seam of coal worked by Thomas Brown, Esq , 
M.L.A., at the Eskbauk Colliery, in Lithgow Valley, in the 
county of Cook. (See S on plan No. 4, and lower coal on section 
lettered D No. 10.) The property consists of 710 acres of 
freehold land, and the coal is worked from a shaft 83 feet 0 
inches ii\ depth, situated close to and alongside tlic Crrcat Western 
Railway, at a distance of about 9(5 miles from Sydney. It is a 
splint coal, whicli has been found well suited for steam, household, 
smelting, gas, blacksmith, and other purposes, dips about 1 in 20 
to the east, and from its hard splinty nature has been found to 
bear carriage well, as it does not readily break and form itself 
into slack. The quantity of coal sold at this colliery in 1S74 
was 8, GOO tons, valued at £3,010, and the average daily number 
of men employed when the pit was working was fourteen. 
Furnaces for smelting copper ores from the western district 
are erected on this property, and an iron smelting furnace is also 
now in course of constriiction. 
The Eskhank Colliery Copper vSmelling Works are managed by 
Mr. Lloyd, who erected the Cow Flat Co])per Smelting VVorks. 
The Company have 15 acres of land leased from Mr. Brown. 
These works consist of three smelting ami one refining furnace, 
and are erected about 70 yards from the 83 feet 0 inch coalpit 
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