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Remarks on the Coals and Lignites of Victoria . 
Deteriorated as they are by exposure on the face of the cliff, it 
is difficult to pronounce with certainty on the quality of these 
seams, but it appears likely to be very good if they are followed in ; 
and as their extension inland could be tested for a few hundred 
pounds, and they are within so short a distance of the shipping 
place, they are certainly worthy of exploration. 
The Kileunda seam has been workod in from the face of the 
cliff by means of an adit, and further inland from a shaft 100 feet 
deep. Several “ faults,” one of which is a down- throw of 40 
feet, dislocate this seam; but it has been followed from the shaft 
along its strike (about W. by N.) for more than 1,000 feet without 
a break. 
Tho quality of the coal is excellent ; its thickness varies from 
20 inches to 27 inches, or an average of barely 24 inches. The 
iS holing ” is hard, and necessitates some waste in cutting ; but, 
nevertheless, men of long and varied experience maintain that, 
with proper management, this seam can be worked at a profit. 
Its inclination is inland, somewhat E. of N. at 10°. Some 5,000 
tons were raised and sent to Melbourne by the first company 
which worked the mine, but proper arrangements for mining and 
carriage were not perfected, and the undertaking collapsed. A 
second company, formed under what appeared to be better auspices, 
constructed a railway from tho mine to tho shipping place, and 
sent a considerable quantity of coal to market, but gave up, 
owing to the discouraging results of several diamond-drill bores 
put down, at very ill-solected sites, to ascertain the exteut and 
trend of the seam prior to sinking a new main shaft, which was 
found to be essential to the further development of the mine. 
The ground is, therefore, at present lying un worked. 
Of several diamond-drill bores put down in the neighbourhood, 
one to tho north of the mine proved a 20 to 24-inch seam at 165 
feet, besides a number of small ones down to 873 feet. From 
another bore, on Bridge Creek, 3 miles east of tho mine, a 
core showing 32 inches of coal was obtained at 490 feet, besides 
other smaller ones above and below that depth. 
Seven miles east from Kileunda, a bore put down near the 
Powlett River passed through two seams, one at 349 feet and 
another at 687 feet, each about 30 inches in thickness, and con- 
sisting of good coal. 
The diamond-drill bores near Kileunda, at the Bridge Creek, and 
at the Powlett River, have satisfactorily established as a fact that 
the coal seams are not mere patches. 
The value of the information obtained by means of the last- 
mentioned bore, as to the existence of two workable seams of good 
coal, at easily accessible depths, and in nearly horizontal strata, 
may in itself be regarded as an equivalent for all the expenditure 
on diamond-drills since their introduction into the colony. Tho 
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