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“ iVo. 3 There were four feet of water in the bottom of the shaft, but I 
was able to descend and examine it down .to that depth. The shaft passed through 
Ft. in. 
Grey sandstone ... ... ... ... ... ... .■■ "j 
Brown shales and clay ... ... ... ... ... ... V 30 0 
Black carbonaceous shale or clod ... ... ... ... J 
Coal (twenty-six feet of this was above the water) 30 0 
“ I could discover no bands in the twenty-six feet of coal visible. It is a clean coal. 
The bods dip slightly north-east. 
“ Shaft No. 0 is forty feet, but it was nearly full of water. I was informed by 
the prospectors that the coal in this shaft was twenty-four feet thick, with a thin band at 
about eleven feet from the top of the seam. The following section was given to mo as 
approximately correct: — 
Ft. in. 
Sandstone and black carbonaceous shale 
.. 16 0 
Coal 
.. 11 0 
Band ... 
..0 3 
Coal 
.. 13 0 
“ No coal has been seen actually cropping out at the surface. 
“ The following are Approximate Analyses of the coals made for 
me by Mr. W. A 
Dixon, F.I.C., F.C.S., of the Technical College, Sydney ; — 
— 
Shaft No. 1. 
Shaft No. 2. 
Shaft No. 3. 
Top portion of the 
Bottom portion of 
seam. 
the seam. 
Moisture 
8-35 
8-40 
9-15 
9 93 
Volatile hydrocarbons 
28-V9 
24-49 
26-71 
23-63 
Fixed carbon ... 
41-74 
57-36 
51-24 
54-20 
Ash 
20-78 
9-50 
12-62 
12-04 
Sulphur 
0-34 
0-26 
0-28 
0-18 
100-00 
100-00 
100-00 
100-00 
“ Mr. Dixon adds : ‘ None of the samples yield any true coke. The ash is in each of 
them perfectly white and rather gritty. The sample from Shaft No. 1, top portion of the 
seam, is rather tender, whilst the others are strong, and have the appearance of splint 
coal, but the analysis shows that they belong rather to the class of lignite than true coal. 
“ The following Analysis was made by Mr. J. Cosmo Newbery, for Mr. Spiers, of 
Rockhampton. The sample was from Shaft No. 1, but I do not know which portion of 
the seam it is from. The analysis is, like that of Mr. Dixon’s, from the bottom portion 
of the seam, but it contains less ash -. — 
Moisture 
... 9-510 
Volatile hydrocarbons 
... 26-365 
Fixed carbon ... 
... 59-850 
Ash 
... 4-275 
100-000 
“ The coal is non-coking, and gives a light white ash. 
“ The analysis would point to the coal being a good 
steam coal, thougli the 
calorimetric power of the coal requires testing. 
“ The sample from the top portion of the seam from Shaft No. 1 gave so high a per- 
centage of ash that I determined to try another sample, with the result that I obtained 
4'6 as a percentage of ash. It is very probable, therefore, that the sample sent to Mr. 
Dixon for analysis had a small impure coaly band in it.”' 
J. 
