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Caking

properties Agglomerates Agglomerates

Colour of ash very Light + Very light
pink pink

This is a low volatile bituminous coal.

The No. 2 seam is 15.5 feet above the No. 1 seam
and is 30 inches thick where exposed in a pit. [It is under-
lain by 3.5 feet of fine siltstone that grades downward into
the hard, course sandstone that forms ee IRAE NS of
No. 1 seam, ;

Packwood Mine

Packwood coal mine (Figure 4) is 22 miles west of
Hudson Hope, It is situated on the steep, southern end of a
south-trending spur of Butler Ridge, 1 mile north of the
river by Toad and about 480 feet above river level.

The ‘property was acquired by Mr. sores Be cvood:
in 1940.° During the same year the mine was opened and 125
tons of coal taken out. There was no production in 1941,
but during the following winter ioe mine was reopened and.
approximately 104 tons of coal wee trucked to Fort St. John.
Hauling was stopped in the eee of 1943 due to the bad
condition of the road, although 100 tons of coal remained to
be transported. During the summer of 1943 the ete 100
tons were removed.

Underground workings consist of two entries along»
the strike of the seam; one at an elevation of 2,500 feet,
and the other at an elevation of 2,380 feet. Prior to
February 1943, only the upper entry existed, but work is now
confined to the new, lower entry.

The upper entry is 230.6 feet long, in which dis-
tance four raises, each about 30 feet high, have been put up.