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Canneloid Seam on Moosebar Creek

“A small seam on Moosebar just below the second falls... . [is thin],
but is described on account of its canneloid character. It is 10 inches thick
and consists entirely of canneloid coal with the characteristic texture
and fracture. A sample gave the following analysis:

. Volatile Fixed Caking Colour
Moisture Ash matter carbon property ash
1-0 10-5 17-7 70-8 Non- Cream”
agglomerate

It ranks as low volatile bituminous coal.

Murray Seam

The Murray seam, in the upper part of the Canyon, is at about the same
horizon as the Grant seam in the middle part of the Canyon; that is, near
the base of the Gething formation. It occurs in a thick, black shale zone,
about 30 feet below the Curved Tree Point sandstone member (See Figure
10), and was uncovered in 1943 in a trench excavated on the edge of the
high, east Canyon wall, just south of Larry Creek (McLearn and Irish,
1944). The seam is 5 feet thick in the discovery trench and has an 0-5-foot
bed of clay ironstone near the middle. A sample from this trench, possibly
weathered, yields the following analysis:

aks Moisture | Ash Volatile | Fixed Caking | Colour s Btu.

matter | carbon | property ash
As received 13-1 | 13-7 22-0 51-2 |Non- Light 0-4 9,750
agglom- rose
erate
Dry 15-8 25-3 58-9 |Non- Light 0-4} 11,210
agglom- rose
erate

Softening temperature of ash is 2,050°F.
The rank, indicated by the analysis, is medium volatile bituminous.

In 1944, Peace River Coal Mines Limited (Lloyd Gething, Manager)
commenced coal mining operations near the discovery trench at the mouth
of Larry Creek. That year 748 tons were mined, and by the end of 1947
total production stood at 7,935 tons of coal mined and sold. A slope
(See Plate VIII B) has been driven down the dip, and drifts have been run
off each side of the slope. The coal is shipped by truck to Fort St. John.

The latest development in this mine is described in the Report of the
Minister of Mines, British Columbia, for 1948. A new and more central