MiM 8 and Mineral Statistics. 
ft. in. 
Grey post and conglomerate. 
Coal 1 7 
Indurated clay 0 5 
Coal 0 10 
Band 0 0^ 
Coal 0 9^ 
Band 0 0^ 
Coal 0 8 
Stone band 0 
Coal 2 2^ 
Band 0 Oi 
Coal 
2 
6 
Band 0 O.i 
Coal 1 0 
Grey post. 
Total thickness ... 10 2J 
This represents the seam of coal 10 feet 3 inches in thickness, 
worked by the Bowenfels Coal Mining Company at Lithgow 
Valley, situated about 97 miles by rail from Sydney and the 
liarbour of Port Jackson. Their property consists of 125 acres 
of mineral land (see X on plan No. 4), and the coal is worked 
from an adit driven into the hill-side, from which a tramway of 
about ^ a mile in lengtli takes the coal on to the Great Western 
Itailway, and tlience to Sydney and elsewhere. It is a splint 
coal, which lias been found well suited for steam, honscliold, 
smelting, gas, blacksmith, and other purposes, dips about 1 in 20 
to tlie east, and from its hard sj)linty nature bears carriage well, 
as it does not readily break and form itself into slack. It is the 
intention of tin's Company to erect smelting works on the land. 
The quantity of coal sold from this colliery in 1871 was 
8,500 tons, value not given. They employed daily wlien tlie 
colliery was at work ten men. Mr. Ilepplo is the Colliery 
Manager. 
These four Western coal sections represent one and the 
same seam (see tlie lowest on section lettered D No. 10), and 
have other beds of coal, lireclay, and bands of iron ore, in the 
strata lying over this coal, Wliea the railway is completed past 
Bathurst to within a few miles of the rich western copper lodes 
