307 
A three feet seam of coal is said to have been discovered some years ago in 
Selection No. 90, opposite Aurora Plantation. 
Two hundred yards above Selection No. 78, on Eedbank Creeli, is a seam of good 
bright coal, four feet two inches in thickness. 
In Selection Ao. 39, west of Aurora, is a seam of bright coal, thirteen inches 
thick and nearly vertical. 
Analyses (Bands). 
Water. 
Volatile 
H 5 ’dro- 
carbons. 
Fixed 
Carbon. 
Ash. 
Specific 
Gravity. 
Coke. 
Scam in Bull’s Selection (1537) 
7-0 
8-6 
G8'4 
IG-O 
1-50 
84-4* 
(grey) 
71-2 
Selection 17G7, Munna Creek (Top Coal) ... 
60 
22-6 
49-9 
21-5 
1-43 
(grc.v) 
GC-O 
„ „ „ (Bottom Coal) 
5-0 
290 
48-5 
17-5 
(reddish 
grey) 
8-5 
1-53 
Jones’ Selection (1311) Seam I. 
2-5 
2GT 
62-9 
1'32 
71-4 
(grey) 
71-G 
„ „ „ II 
C-0 
22-4 
51 T 
20-5 
1-38 
(reddish) 
53-0 
y 
15-0 
300 
39-5 
16-5 
(grey) 
1-38 
G5'8 
„ „ „ in waterhole 
5-5 
28-7 
51-3 
14-5 
<grey) 
53-8 
Sorensen’s Selection (1737) ... 
12-0 
34-2 
32-8 
210 
(white) 
Eedbank Creek, above Selection 78 
100 
28-0 
47-5 
14-5 
1-51 
G2-0 
(reddish 
grey) 
* Non-Caking. 
Mr. Eands remarks that the high percentage of water and ash, as well as the 
bigh specific gravity, are due to a great extent to the specimens for analysis having been 
taken from the outcrop of the seams. 
Mr. Gregory’s “ Keport on the Wide Bay and Burnett Districts” contains a few 
references to the part of the Coal Pield near Bundaberg, to the north of Burrum. 
An eight inch seam is seen on the south side of the Burnett District, about eight 
miles above Bundaberg. Above the coal are eighty feet of brown sandstones and shales. 
Borings to the depth of one hundred and forty feet below the coal showed black shales 
and several seams of coal, but nothing workable. Several thin seams of coal are 
exposed by Pine Creek, which falls into tlie Burnett three miles above Bingei a, In an 
Appendix to his “ lieport on the Coal Deposits of West Moreton, &c.,” Mr. Gregory 
gives the following analysis of coal from Pine Creek : — 
Volatile in coking ... 
Fixed carbon 
Ash ... 
34-3 
57-5 
6-2 
Coke, 63'7 ; Carbon in coke, 90'3 ; Ash in coke, 9'7. 
98-0 
OUTPUT OP THE BURKUM COAL FIELD. 
It is only since the opening of the railway from Maryborough that the Burrum 
Coal Pield has been worked to any exteiit worth mentioning. During the last eight 
years, the output has amounted to 187,761 tons, valued at £160,016. 
