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The deposit of brown coal near this drill site was formerly worked, and 
some thousands of tons of coal were marketed. The coal is of exceptionally 
good quality as a brown coal, and the seam when worked ranged from 
6 to 12 feet thick, but the extent of the seam appears to be very limited. 
A tramway 7 miles long was laid down to connect the mine with Dean’s 
Marsh. The rails have been removed from the tram line and the machinery 
from the mine. 
Bore No. i, Parish of Bambra. 
This bore is at a site on the road from Dean’s Marsh to Lome, and 3 
miles from Dean’s Marsh at 1,000 feet above sea-level. 
At this site there is a total absence of the greenish sandstones that were 
met with at No. 1 Boonah bore. The grey sandstones resemble those in 
the upper part of the last-named bore, and in them coaly films abound. 
These films represent vegetation that has been deposited in the form of 
leaves, stems, &c., of plants, and which have become coal since. The beds 
are nearly horizontal, and show a considerable amount of false bedding. 
Asplin’s Coal Seam, Forrest. 
From Dean’s Marsh to Forrest the rocks are for the most part of 
Tertiary age, apparently covering Jurassic beds. The flats have a fertile 
soil, but the hills and rises are of poor quality. 
About 6 miles by road in a south-westerly direction from Forrest, on 
the east portion of Allotment 10, Section A, Parish of Yaugher, is Asplin’s 
coal seam. There is 5 inches of good-looking coal in dark shale and sand¬ 
stones. The beds are nearly horizontal. A drive has been put in for 30 
feet in a south-easterly direction. At the end of the drive the beds and 
seam began to dip more steeply south-east, and the seam is stated to 
have thickened to 12 inches. The seam is in the bottom of a gully, and 
about 751 feet above sea-level. At a short distance from the first drive 
there is another about 40 feet in length also; both were made by Mr. 
Asplin. The general aspect here appears to be more favorable for coal 
than at the sites where boring has been done. 
Beech Forest. 
The top of the hill on which the town of Beech Forest is built, 1,950 
feet above sea-level, consists of soft, yellowish sandstone that decomposes 
into a fertile soil. The dip of these beds is towards the south. At the 
butter factory, near Beech Forest railway station, in excavating a small 
tank, some coaly material was found associated with shales and sand¬ 
stones, but no actual seam. About 16 chains north from Ditchlev is a 
quarry, 1,650 feet above sea-level, on Mr. Gardiner’s land, where a firm, 
grey sandstone is being quarried for road-metal. In this quarry, on the 
west side, there is a layer, about 3 inches thick, of coaly films in the sand¬ 
stone, representing plant remains, but there is no actual coal seam. The 
east side of the quarry, where it is stated a thin seam of coal was showing, 
could not be examined, as it was covered up, but as the rock here is solid 
sandstone, the coaly matter could not have been of much importance. 
It would be advisable to bore the country systematicallv from where 
the drill now is, and not to do the work in an erratic manner. Later on 
this district can be tested when proper data have been accumulated. 
At Ditchlev quarry the beds appear to be fairly horizontal, but from 
Wimba northward they have a northerly dip which amounts in some cases 
to as much as 30° to 40°. 
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