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“ Below tlie sandstone, and a little higher up the gully, a seam of coal, with tlie 
same dip, and one foot seven inches in thickness, crops out in the hank. It is a good, 
bright, non-caking coal, without any hands, hut it has too high an angle of dip and is 
not thick enough to pay to work. The section in the gully shows : — 
Sandstone 
White clay 
Coal 
Fireclay 
Lami nated sandstone . . . 
Ft. in. 
0 0 
0 0 
1 7 
0 li 
0 0 
“ Approximate analysis of this coal gives : — 
Moisture 
Volatile liydrooarbons 
Fixed carbon 
Ask ... 
Per cent. 
4'3 
13-5 
71-1 
11-1 
100-0 
The ash was of a dark-grey colour. 
“A seam of coal crops out in a gully, in Selection No. 137, belonging to Mr. 
Brayford, about a mile and a half north of Beaudesert. The section in the 
gully is : — 
Ft. iu. 
Fireclay ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 0 0 
Black shale with streaks of coal 0 6| 
Fireclay ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 0 4 
Black shale with streaks of cooZ ... ... ... ... ... ... Oil 
Fireclay 0 3 
Coal ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 0 3 
Fireclay ^ 0 3 
Brown shale ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 0 5| 
Bright clean coal 1 4 
Fireclay 0 9 
Coal ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 0 6| 
This is one of the boat-looking coals I saw in the district. The dip of the coal is 
W . 10° N. at 10°. I appended analyses of two samples of this coal, one taken from 
the outcrop in the gully, and analysed by Mr. Joseph Fletcher, the other from a shaft 
m Mr. John Waters’ Selection (No. 120), and analysed by myself: — 
Sample. 
Sample trom 
outcrop. 
Per cent. 
Sample from 
shaft. 
Per cent. 
Moisture 
8-0 
... Hot determined 
Hydrocarbons (volatile) 
34-0 
. . . 44-0 (includes moisture) 
Fixed carbons 
33-0 
47-3 
Ask 
25-2 
8-7 
100-0 
100-0 
The ash was white. The coal is hard, and has a specific gravity of I’dl. It resembles 
^ cannel coal and burns freely. 
“ The shaft in Mr. John Waters’ Selection was filled in, hut I was informed that 
the coal was much thicker there. 
“ Another seam crops out about a hundred yards higher np tlie gully. This is 
Very impure coal ; it is more of a coaly shale. 
