The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 71
(8) Southland Coal-fields
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(8) Southland Coal-fields.
The coal-fields situated in the province of Southland are mostly only of local importance. Exception to this may perhaps hu made in favour of the Nightcaps Coal Company's freehold mines which produced 14,185 tons in 1891. There appear to be three separate mines close together, working seams varying from 8 feet to 15 feet in thickness and employing 33 men. The fuel is bright, black, clean-looking, burning well and containing—at any rate as regards one seam—much fossil resin. The analysis is as follows:—
Per Cent. | |
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Fixed carbon | 47.81 |
Hydrocarbons | 21.04 |
Water | 29.24 |
Ash | 1.91 |
100.00 |