Coal Discoveries on the Flinders: Report of Mr. Jack, Government Geologist |
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20 degrees 20 feet altered assay auriferous deposit basalt Bed of Slate black shale black with iron blocks have evidently blocks of siliceous bounding the auriferous Bowen River chloritic claim coal colour conglomerate copper country rock Creek cross-course crosscut crushing cutting diorite dipping Eastern Reef Ellen Harkins end of face fault feet east feet in depth feet level felspathic field fine-grained fragment large angular Glanmire Goldfield granite grey greywacke grit gully Gympie Hill inches iodine test iron oxide ironstone kaolin Lady Mary large angular blocks LEASE limestone limonite lode main shaft miles Monk Monkland Mount Mount Britton Mount Morgan occurs payable porphyry prospect Gold trace pyrites quartz quartzite reef River sandstone schists seam seen shaft some vertical siliceous sinter silver Smithfield south-west stalactites stone strata sunk surface thickness Tons cwt Townsville trench tunnel underlie veins volcanic West face width yellow ferruginous earth yield