341 
“ In the Ipswich division the coals are bituminous, cohing well. The proportion 
of gas being small and the. fixed carbon large, they are suited for forges and blast 
furnaces ; arc good steam coal when not broken too small, but are so friable as not to 
bear carriage well, and suHer from exposure to wet, so that the harder varieties, though 
containing most ash, are found in practice to be most economical, in consequence of the 
smaller proportion of waste. 
“ In both districts the coal is associated with ironstone bands and beds of boulders 
consisting of concretions of oxide of iron, which have replaced fragments of fossil 
Wood. 
Analyses op Coals in Ipswich Fobhation. 
Mina or Locality. 
Volatile 
ill 
Coking. 
Fixed 
Carbon. 
Ash. 
Coke. 
Carbon 
in 
Coke. 
Ash 
in 
Coke. 
Tivoli Mine, iNoith Ipswich ... 
26-7 
6(1 '4 
6-9 
73-3 
90-G 
9-4 
Eastwood Mine, N'orth Ipswich 
2o'0 
G3-0 
12-0 
75-0 
84-0 
16-0 
Thompson’s Mine, Bundamba. 
31-7 
62 3 
6-0 
68-3 
91-2 
8-8 
Goodna Mine ... 
28-8 
62-2 
9-0 
71-2 
87-4 
12-6 
New Mine, near Tivoli Mine ... 
30-8 
61-0 
8-2 
69-2 
88-2 
11-8 
Thomas’s Mine, Bundamba 
29’8 
59-2 
11-0 
70-2 
84-3 
15-7 
Aberdarc Mine, Q-oodna 
28-8 
57-2 
14-0 
71-2 
80-3 
19-7 
Blond and "Wri^bt’s Mine, Xorbh Ipswieh ... 
26-2 
56-4 
17-4. 
73-8 
76-4 
23-6 
Lyons’ Shaft, Mofigill ... 
38-2 
51-0 
10-8 
61-8 
82-6 
17-4 
Brisbane River Seam, Rocky Crossing 
220 
50-9 
27-1 
78-0 
65-3 
34-7 
Elagstono Creek, Helidon 
36-3 
47-4 
16-3 
63-7 
74-4 
25-6 
Blackfellow’s Creek, West Morelon ... 
42-4 
45’0 
12-0 
57-6 
70-2 
20-8 
Hodgson’s Creek, Darling Downs 
44-7 
42-6 
12-7 
56-3 
77 0 
230 
Clifton Mine, Darling Dowds ... 
47-6 
42-2 
10-2 
52-4 
80-5 
19-5 
Walloon, West Moreton 
4.7-0 
36-0 
17.0 
530 
67-9 
32-1 
Murphy’s Scam, Kedron Brook 
160 
33-6 
30.4 
84-0 
30-0 
70-0 
Foe Compaeison. 
^iva. Seam, Mary River 
23-6 
61-0 
15-4 
76-4. 
80-0 
20 0 
Bine Creek Scam, Burnett River 
34-3 
57-5 
6-2 
63-7 
90-3 
9-7 
Waratah, New South Wales ... 
31-0 
62-5 
6-5 
69-0 
90-6 
9-4” 
In another Eeport,* Mr. Gregory notes the presence of coal “ in the bed of the 
Condamine, about two miles south of the Railway line, forty miles beyond Dalby,” about 
the 193-mile peg, and adds, “ there arc several thin seams of good cannel coal which 
Would be available for use in locomotive engines. The coal is a hard gas coal, which 
does not cake. It bears carriage and exposure to weather with but little injury, but it 
t>Ums very quickly and has a high percentage of ash, and consequently will not do an 
equal amount of work per ton as the softer coal from the Ipswich mines.” 
Mr. William Fryar, Inspector of Mines, has kindly given me the following 
details of sections of the various Ipswich Coal Seams : — 
Aherdare . — 
Coal 
Band . . . 
Coal 
Band ... 
Coal 
Baud ... 
Ft. 
In. 
... 1 
8 
... 0 
1 
... 1 
3 
... 0 
1 
... 1 
0 
... 0 
4 
Report on the Search for Coal between Ualby and Roma. Brisbane : by Author.ty : 1879. 
