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Riverside Seam

“The Riverside is 1,250 feet below the Moosebar contact and 35 feet
below the Grant seam. It is exposed at low water on the north bank a
little below No. 1 Prospect tunnel at the west end of Grant flat. The seam
is so close stratigraphically to the Grant coal that the statements regarding
the outcrop and attitude of the Grant apply also to the Riverside.

“In the known exposure the thickness of this seam is 2 feet 10 inches.
At the bottom is friable jet coal and above there is dark grey, shiny, but not
brilliant, coal. The presence of a layer of friable, brilliant jet coal at the
base of a seam is a common occurrence in this coal area. A sample gave
the following analysis:

. Volatile | Fixed Caking Colour
Moisture Ash matter | carbon property ash 8 Btu.
0-7 5:6 18-8 74-9 | Agglomerate| Grey 0-8 | 14,400

The rank is [low volatile] bituminous.

“In addition to the above seams there are a few on Gething and
Johnson creeks worthy of description, which have not been correlated with
seams in other localities and may or may not be the equivalent of seams

already described.
Gething Seam

“At the junction of main Gething creek and its north branch there is a
seam containing 2 feet 4 inches of coal and a 1-inch parting:

Feet Inches
ROT Nai Bea il es SURES SO al ig eed OU 0 6
Shalewetiactecmetaccccthen cnc aioe ie a ee 0 1
Coal er eicis crater ein Tae Coys ee 1 10
2 6

It lies below the seam correlated with the Falls seam. [An analysis is
as follows:]

ip Volatile Fixed Caking ‘Colour
Moisture Ash matter carbon property ash
1-0 3-5 25-2 70-3 Non- Light brown
| agglomerate

ea ee eh
The rank is [medium volatile] bituminous.

Galloway Seam

corp

_ “The Galloway lies at some depth below the Gething and outcrops at
the first or Galloway falls on Gething creek below the forks. It disap-
pears below river level upstream above the falls, but downstream can be