State Colliery.
Reporting on' the. Point Elizabeth State 'Colliery, isoys the New .Zealand Mines Record, the consulting 1 engineer sfait&s . tiliiat a survey is now being iiade by tlie mine surveyor; of the different outcrops" and tihle extent, of tliie coal area on the Pann.roa Range, which is temporarily r served. : A sample :of coal, from a, earn about 18ft in thickness has bee \ forwarded for analysis ait the polov.':tl Labora toty. Judging-from its: !;•-.Niiramae, it Huts.the aliaraoteristics. c; '.nthi-acite, and if 'tlie-aiiatlysis bein.rs this out it is ai fuel/ thrt.t would be greatly in demand for the Admiralty or for marine or .liOaomtotive -boiileirs, especially .wihiene forced di'a,ught is used. Th&i'er are a number of ;c pal 'outcrops on tihle'-west-ea'h side of rae'P'aparoaJKang'e,' and one very 'large outcrop on the; nodrthr crn side of the head of the Sevenmile .■Ci'eeik- As. soon. as the : survey is completed and -trial lmes out to ascertaiiK .'tile best way of., .getting iihiei odflU' to port, anc] of :estimating! 1 the cost of sauie the- Consulting enginieer anxJ majiiifier of the .s^ait© ■ coal mijies will mate ai tihlorcOTgh eixaminaitaon of the field laaild.report fully on it '
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Thames Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 10167, 10 December 1906, Page 1
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193State Colliery. Thames Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 10167, 10 December 1906, Page 1
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