338 
“ Coal near Ito%exooocimaHon.—Co 2 X is reported to have been found near the Eose 
wood Station, hut that the seam is only one and a-half feet thich, though of exce e 
quality. About three miles beyond Rosewood, and a mile 
Lall seams of coal were found in the shales on the hank of a watercourse descending 
from the range, but neither of any value. The coal strata here rest on limestone con- 
taining coals of the mountain limestone scries,* hut the actual Pnctions the _ 
series of rocks were not visible, the Carboniferous rocks being overlaid by basalt, which 
forms the summit of the range i 
“ Coal on Blachfellow's (7/-ee;fc. - Although the Eailway cuttings through theLitt 
Liverpool Range show some good sections of the coal sandstones and shales, no coal has 
been found, and it seems that the coal is covered in this locality by a great thickness 
shales and coarse sandstones, similar to those to the east of Ipswich, and as these stota 
dip from the summit of the range to the west, it is not till Blackfellow s [Tenthiip Cree 
is reached that there is any good natural section of 
thin seam of coal with carbonaceous shale is visible on the bank of the creek ten m 
south from Gatton Station, and twelve miles higher up the creek a fine seam of excellent 
coal crops out in the west bank, just above the upper boundary of Portion No. 9. iin 
seam contains nine feet of workable coal, the top being a seam of coal one foot, then one 
foot fireclay, six feet of coal, one foot white clay, one foot coal, one foot c 
foot coal, resting on a thick bed of fireclays and sha es. Above the coal 
thin bands of shale are visible, which are again covered by a mass of basalt, 
about a thousand feet to the summit of the Great Dividing Eange._ '^e coal is J 
hori^ontal at its outcrop. It is a very hard eannel coal, with cubic fracture, does not 
cake in coking. Specific gravity, 1’29. 
47 
Volatile in coking gg 
Fixed carton 
Ash [ 
100 
“ Coal, Flagstone Creek, near Tooivoomha . — In the valley of Flagstone Creek, eight 
miles south-west from Helidon Eailway Station, and six miles from Toowoomba, on Portion 
No. 44, there is a good seam of coal, which has been opened on the south side of the 
creek by a drive of five or six yards, showing a thickness of fifteen inches; but in 
gully, a hundred vards south, the thickness is two feet. The same seam is ^ 1*0 exposea 
on the north side'of the valley, but only one foot thick. This coal is moderately hard , 
does not cake in coking. Specific gravity, 1 36. 
, . ... 36 
Volatile in coking 
...... 40 
Fixed carbon _ ^ 
Ash 
100 
“ About two miles to the west of this outcrop of coal a large deposit of iron 
ore shows at the junction of the Carboniferous rocks and the superincumbmrt ba^ 
and within a few yards limestone of impure description, apparently a tufa derive 
MurpW^ Crcc7r.-Two miles north from Murphy’s Creek Ea^^way 
Station, many small pieces of coal were found in the bed of a small watercours , 
is reported that a thin seam of coal has been found in the adjacent valley, but that 
not of sufficient thickness to be of any great value. 
Sc<t remarks p. 343t 
