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WEST COAST COAL MINES.

* [Fkom Ottk Co-respondent.] QREYMOUTH, December 18. The G-rey " Star " states that the Brunner Colliery Company wili be on the market in a few days, and the shares are likely to be at a premium before the end of January, the applications being already large. This new venture will buy out the Tyneside Com-' pany, and work and develop the Walkend mine and adjoining ground. • In regard to this company it will ■start on the day of flotation with an output of about 100,000 tons per annum. It is expected that the Wallsend mine can be cleared of water and in actual work in eight months, and that it is capable of putting out 150,000 tons per annum. The whole of the area, is a little over 1000 -acres, and it is estimated that in the top seam of coal there is over twenty million tons, and in the lower seams thirty-five million tons. •

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Star (Christchurch), Issue 9113, 19 December 1907, Page 4

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WEST COAST COAL MINES. Star (Christchurch), Issue 9113, 19 December 1907, Page 4

WEST COAST COAL MINES. Star (Christchurch), Issue 9113, 19 December 1907, Page 4