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Mile Creek. A sample of this he has had analyzed in the Mines Depart¬ 
ment Laboratory. The analysis has been officially supplied to me, and is 
as follows : — 
Moisture 
Volatile hydro-cartons 
Fixed carbon 
Ash 
% 
6. ii 
19-75 
2 9-5 2 
44.62 
100.00 
This analysis indicates a very impure coal. I was not enabled to see 
the alleged “seam ” owing to the flooded state of the creek, so can say 
nothing definite about it. 
The strata generally in the district, as far as observed, do not show 
such frequent alternations of mudstones with sandstones and shales as do 
those of the coalfields area about Korumburra, Jumbunna and Outtrim; 
nor are they of such promising appearance as those visible in the railway 
cuttings near Foster. Nevertheless, there seems to me to be a prospect of 
coal seams, though probably not of pavable thickness, being in the district, 
and I should like to see the area behind Welshpool given a trial by boring 
before the drill, now at Hedley, be removed from the district. 
The site of a bore best suited to test the locality is, in my opinion, some¬ 
where in allotments 18 or 1, section A, parish of Welshpool, but it is 
impracticable at present to get a drill conveyed thither at a reasonable cost 
on account of the uncleared character of the country, and the absence of a 
road. 
The general geology of the district has been reported upon by me pre¬ 
viously,* but I may add a few observations made during my recent visit. 
The Cainozoic sediments previously referred to as occurring on the 
Hodgkinson-Upper Agnes River road extend across Nine Mile Creek, and 
occupy the lower portions of the spurs, the boundary line between them and 
the Jurassic series being here marked by a sharp rise in the spurs. The 
deposits consist of clavs, clayey sands and gravel, dhiefly of white, grey, 
red and yellow colours, together with very hard, dense, fine and coarse 
siliceous grits of the same colours. They are provisionally classed as of 
Eocene age. A deposit of pebbly sands, gravels and clays belonging to the 
same series occurs in the northern part of the parish of Welshpool (allot¬ 
ments 64 and 29 of section A), adjoining the parish of Binginwarri. 
The pebbly gravels contain numerous pebbles of quartz, schorlaceous 
quartz, indurated sandstones and slates, with a little schorl, magnetite, 
titaniferous iron, small zircons, and, so Mr. J. Crouch informed me, a little 
fine gold. 
They are evidently part of the Agnes River stanniferous series, and 
occupy a basjn low down among the hills of Jurassic rocks. These hills in 
the ridge just to the S. of the area form the southern watershed of Billy’s 
Creek, a tributarv of the Albert River, and have an altitude of between 
800 and 900 feet above sea level. 
From the additional evidence furnished bv these. Cainozoic deposits. I 
am now strongto inclined to the opinion that the strata, showing 3 beds of 
brown coal aggregating 125 ft. 10 in., occurring under the Hediley plain, as 
disclosed bv the records of the tore, proving 270 feet of Cainozoics on 
1,832 ft. 6 in. of Jurassics, and those forming the Agnes River stanniferous 
series, are portions of the same series, and are remnants of once widespread 
deposits of fluvio-lacustrine origin, which owe the : r present position to 
extensive and great downthrow faults. 
[ Report sent in 12 tli July , 1902.] 
* Report on the Probable Occurrence of Coal in the Welshpool District.—Records Geol. Surv. V ict., 
Vol. I., Part I., pp. 61-66. 
