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underlying Moosebar formation exhibits subsidiary folie Thiel ts}
series of closely PRE. anticlines and Synelines.

COAL DEPOSITS

Hasler Creek Coal Deposits

The Hasler Créeék Coal Company was incorporated in British
Golumbia in December 1943. to develop the Discovery seam on Hasler
Creek. This seam was discovered in 1934 by Mr. G. Goodrich,
after unusually high water had removed the overburden along the
east bank of Hasler Creek near the coal outcrop. No work was
undertaken until the winter of 1940-41, when the seam was opened
up by an adit: about 15 feet above creek level and extending into
the coal for 56 feet. In.addition, coal was mined, by means of
open-cut benches, to a height of about 50 feet ahove the adit.
Six hundred tons were delivered to the drilling contractors at Pine
River Well No. 1 at Comuotion Creek. During the winter of 1942
the adit was cleaned out in preparation for mining underground,
but no production was attempted. In December 1943 a tipple and
camp buildings were etree. and a daily eLaeKe NeO Ree of o5 tons
was reached,

~The Discovery seam lies about 200 feet south of the Moosebar-
Gething contact, on. the east side of Hasler Creek. It is 159 feet,
stratigraphically, below the top of the Gething formation at this
locality. The coal section includes;

Thickness
; Feet «finches
Coal, Discovery seam, hard, bright with 2-inch :

Sandstone parting near base She ikeni oll ieneih tote aie! A/) 4
Coal, sheared, and foliated: ini wile “eaters Wri el ive SL 40
Shale, carbonaceous, brown weathering, contains

g-inch coal seamlets ... a er aielsl Tw fllieh Meds wie ite 2
Coal, sheared, with +-inch shale partings ehihertoeeeo. 2
Total thickness of coal with shale parvings See awake: O

About 300 feet. south of the adit, or 261 feet Sac
cally below the Discovery seam, a coal section, Neneigieuetate Ue as
the Point seam, includes the following beds:

Thickness
Feet Inches
(Coal! isomewhat VSneCaTreduveirulieiivels tel eMyen alte 7
Point (Shale, carbonaceous, with thin
Seam ( COB ES CAM NETS tr ecu reubtenine sie (ids hivonine ire 1 6
(IC OHRID Tad lat ee valaiad wetse tm sviony te iirov Weenie ills 2 6
Total thickness of coal and shale parting 6 7

Between the two sections there are at least five individual
seams varying from 6 inches to 24 feet in thickness. None of
these is considered thick enough to warrant development work
under existing conditions.

The coal consists of alternating bright and dull bands, is
black, and has a black streak. The bright bands are commonly
lenticular, and vary from one-eighth to one-quarter inch in thick-
ness. Dull bands are of similar thickness and usually predominate
over the bright bands. Analyses of five samples from the
Discovery and Point seams are given below:

Coal Analyses, Hasler OECD eihUle

‘Analyses by Bureau of Mines, Ottawa.