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“ New Ohum Shaft . — At Bundanba there is a colliery worked by a pit (Kew Chum 
Shaft), the property of Mr. Gulland. The shaft is about two hundred and twenty feet 
deep, tapping two seams, the lower one of which only is woi’ked. The latter shows in 
all about twenty-seven feet of carbonaceous matter, but of this four feet to four feet 
eight inches is good clean coal, without any partings or shale. The dip is about 1 iu 9, 
a little east of south. It is a good, firm, shining coal, with much mother-of-coal in the 
pai’tings ; yet it does not soil the fingers as much as other coals on this field. It is 
entirely sold for steam purposes, with the exception of the slack, which finds a ready 
market for smith’s work.* * * § 
“Braeside. — The Bracside Shaft is a mine of Mr. Lindsay’s, rather over a mile 
from the New Chum. The workings are a drive along the seam, which is .three feet 
thick. The coal is very similar to the last. The drive is two hundred and eighty yards 
long. There is another shaft close by, sixty yards deep, oa a second seam of a superior 
coal. 
‘^Southern Coalfields. — All around Pine Mountain and Peak Mountain (“ITinder’s 
Peak ” on maps), and for a distance of many miles to the south and west, there are 
outcrops of coal. 
“ Walloon, Coal . — About six miles west of Ipswich is the Walloon Colliery. The 
seams are three in number. The first crops out on the surface, with a dip, to the south- 
west, of 1 in 9. The scam is remarkably compact,, with about four and a-half feet of coal. 
The second seam is fifty feet below, with five feet six inches of good coal. A third 
seam is found forty feet deeper, about five feet thick. This coal differs completely 
from all the other seams found around Ipswich. f It is perfectly clean and compact, 
and does not soil the hands. It is not brittle, so that there is little or no slack iu the 
handling. It has a smooth, bright, jet-like lustre, with bright bituminous streaks. As 
a gas coal it has no et[ual in the Colony, and also as a household coal. The average of a 
number of proximate analysis would give a imrceutage of — 
Fixed carbons ... ... ... ... ... ••• 
Hydrocarbons dO 
Asb ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... b 
Loss, moisture, &c. .. ... ... ... ... ••• •• “t 
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“ Some specimens do not coke well ; others yield about 50 per cent., bright and well 
swollen up. The seam is worked by a drive which runs in a south-wmsterly direction 
for about one hundred and thirty-two yards, with a dip of about 1 in 7. The drive, at 
the present, opens into three levels, the lowest of which is about seventy-five feet from 
the surface. At this level a magnificent seam of coal, five feet thick on the clear, is 
met with, and is intersected with a layer of fireclay of about three inches iu thickness. J 
“ A coal seam, known as ‘ Morgan’s,’ crojJS out about seven miles north-north- 
east of Warwick. ”§ 
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* The two seams, I was informed by Mr. Gulland, the proprietor, are separated by two hundred feet 
of shale and sandstone. (R.L.J.) 
t It is not the seam near Walloon referred to by Mr. Gregory. (R.L.J.) 
J This is, I presume, what is now known as Kea’s, or the Caledonian Seam. (R.L.J.) ^ 
§ Some good sections of seams and analyses of coal will bo found in a pamphlet, Queensland, 
Australia ; its Ten-itory, Climate, and Products ” (PP- HI. plate.s, &e., 8vo., London, n.d.), issued by the 
late Mr. Richard Daintree, C.M.G., when Agent-General in London. (See pp. 7T-80). (R.R. Junr.) 
