| Geology encountered |
Thickness |
|
Depth |
| |
ft. |
in. |
|
ft. |
in. |
| Soil |
1 |
0 |
|
1 |
0 |
| Strong blue clay |
10 |
0 |
|
11 |
0 |
| Soft brown limestone, with water |
22 |
0 |
|
33 |
0 |
| Strong brown limestone, water at bottom |
9 |
0 |
|
42 |
0 |
| Mild limestone |
19 |
0 |
|
61 |
0 |
| Light coloured limestone |
14 |
0 |
|
75 |
0 |
| Mild limestone, with a strong feeder of water at the top |
7 |
0 |
|
82 |
0 |
| Hard limestone |
3 |
0 |
|
85 |
0 |
| Mild limestone, with water |
16 |
6 |
|
101 |
6 |
| Hard brown limestone, much honeycombed |
23 |
4 |
|
124 |
10 |
| Hard brown limestone, with partings and water |
27 |
5 |
|
152 |
3 |
| Very hard brown and white limestone, with water |
8 |
0 |
|
160 |
3 |
| Blue limestone, mixed with white |
2 |
3 |
|
162 |
6 |
| Brown limestone, with a little water at parting |
2 |
9 |
|
165 |
3 |
| Mixed panels of blue and brown limestone |
14 |
3 |
|
179 |
6 |
| Hard blue limestone, with brown girdles |
14 |
4 |
|
193 |
10 |
| Hard blue limestone, with l ight blue and yellow partings |
8 |
0 |
|
201 |
10 |
| Blue limestone, with thin black partings |
13 |
2 |
|
215 |
0 |
| Brown limestone, with thin black partings |
1 |
8 |
|
216 |
8 |
| Light coloured limestone, with a strong feeder of water at bottom |
0 |
8 |
|
217 |
4 |
| Grey metal |
2 |
5 |
|
219 |
9 |
| Hard sandstone, soft at bottom |
3 |
5 |
|
223 |
2 |
| Soft light coloured metal |
7 |
8 |
|
230 |
10 |
| Light metal, mixed with red pebbles |
2 |
3 |
|
233 |
1 |
| Red metal |
2 |
9 |
|
235 |
10 |
| Red post |
2 |
8 |
|
238 |
6 |
| Grey post |
9 |
8 |
|
248 |
2 |
| Grey metal |
6 |
4 |
|
254 |
6 |
| Blue metal, mixed with thin red girdles |
4 |
8 |
|
259 |
2 |
| Grey metal, with thin red girdles |
11 |
0 |
|
270 |
2 |
| Dark blue metal |
4 |
8 |
|
274 |
10 |
| Black stone |
0 |
2 |
|
275 |
0 |
| Black stone |
1 |
11 |
|
276 |
11 |
| Seggar |
0 |
3 |
|
277 |
2 |
| COAL - Three-Quarter Seam |
2 |
8 |
|
279 |
10 |
| Soft seggar |
1 |
4 |
|
281 |
2 |
| Strong seggar, with iron balls |
3 |
0 |
|
284 |
2 |
| Strong grey metal, jointy |
8 |
8 |
|
292 |
10 |
| Grey post |
1 |
6 |
|
294 |
4 |
| Grey metal, with post girdles |
4 |
7 |
|
298 |
11 |
| Black metal |
1 |
8 |
|
300 |
7 |
| Dark grey metal |
3 |
0 |
|
303 |
7 |
| Grey metal, with post girdles |
9 |
0 |
|
312 |
7 |
| Blue metal, with iron girdles |
4 |
2 |
|
316 |
9 |
| Black stone |
0 |
5 |
|
317 |
2 |
| COAL - Five-Quarter Seam |
4 |
6 |
|
321 |
8 |
| Seggar |
1 |
8 |
|
323 |
4 |
| Post |
1 |
10 |
|
325 |
2 |
| Black stone |
2 |
0 |
|
327 |
2 |
| Grey metal, with post girdles |
16 |
0 |
|
343 |
2 |
| Grey metal |
12 |
1 |
|
355 |
3 |
| COAL |
1 |
9 |
|
357 |
0 |
| Thill stone |
0 |
4 |
|
357 |
4 |
| Grey post |
4 |
1 |
|
361 |
5 |
| Hard post girdle |
1 |
0 |
|
362 |
5 |
| Grey metal, with thin post girdles |
16 |
0 |
|
378 |
5 |
| Grey metal, with iron girdles |
8 |
4 |
|
386 |
9 |
| COAL - Main Coal Seam |
9 |
4 |
|
396 |
1 |
| COAL, top |
1 |
6½ |
|
|
|
| Seggar |
4 |
2 |
|
|
|
| COAL, bottom |
3 |
8 |
|
|
|
| Seggar |
2 |
8 |
|
398 |
9 |
| Grey post |
3 |
10 |
|
402 |
7 |
| Light grey metal, much like seggar |
1 |
3 |
|
403 |
10 |
| Grey post, with grey metal partings |
5 |
8 |
|
409 |
6 |
| Grey post |
3 |
5 |
|
412 |
11 |
| Grey metal post, mixed with iron balls at bottom |
3 |
9 |
|
416 |
8 |
| Blue metal, with iron balls and coal pipes and prints |
3 |
1 |
|
419 |
9 |
| Dark metal, with coal pipes and prints |
0 |
7 |
|
420 |
4 |
| Grey metal, with iron balls |
2 |
11 |
|
423 |
3 |
| Grey nmetal, with post girdles |
2 |
0 |
|
425 |
3 |
| White post, with metal partings and water |
1 |
8 |
|
426 |
11 |
| Brown whin girdles |
0 |
4 |
|
427 |
3 |
| Grey post, with metal partings |
1 |
4 |
|
428 |
8 |
| White post, with metal partings and water |
13 |
5 |
|
442 |
1 |
| Seggar |
0 |
8 |
|
442 |
9 |
| Black stone, mixed with coal pipes and prints |
0 |
2 |
|
442 |
11 |
| Grey metal and post girdles |
24 |
4 |
|
467 |
3 |
| Grey metal, with coal partings |
1 |
5 |
|
468 |
8 |
| COAL |
4 |
3 |
|
472 |
11 |
| Black stone, mixed with coal |
0 |
2½ |
|
|
|
| COAL |
4 |
0½ |
|
|
|
| Seggar, with ironstone nodules |
3 |
0 |
|
475 |
11 |
| Grey metal and post girdles |
13 |
3 |
|
489 |
2 |
| COAL, coarse |
0 |
6 |
|
489 |
8 |
| Dark blue metal |
2 |
6 |
|
492 |
2 |
| Blue metal and ironstone balls |
2 |
6 |
|
494 |
8 |
| Grey metal and post girdles |
2 |
0 |
|
496 |
8 |
| Grey post and metal partings |
21 |
9 |
|
518 |
5 |
| Grey metal and ironstone balls |
20 |
10 |
|
539 |
3 |
| COAL - Low Main Seam |
2 |
3 |
|
541 |
6 |
| Black stone and coal pipes |
0 |
2½ |
|
|
|
| COAL |
2 |
0½ |
|
|
|
| Dark thill stone |
0 |
4 |
|
541 |
10 |
| Fine light coloured seggar |
1 |
4 |
|
543 |
2 |
| Dark and light coloured seggar in thin layers |
2 |
3 |
|
545 |
5 |
| COAL, thin and coarse |
0 |
4 |
|
545 |
9 |
| * Hard post, like seggar, with iron balls |
2 |
8 |
|
548 |
5 |
| * Strong grey metal, inclining to post |
5 |
9 |
|
554 |
2 |
| White post, with metal partings, mixed with whin next to top, and with strong leafy post the last 2 fathoms, and 400 gallons of water per hour |
27 |
9 |
|
581 |
11 |
| COAL |
2 |
1 |
|
584 |
0 |
| Soft black metal, with coal pipes |
0 |
8 |
|
|
|
| COAL (got May 16th, 1876) |
1 |
5 |
|
|
|
| Dark grey post, with post girdles |
9 |
8 |
|
593 |
8 |
| Strong black metal |
1 |
0 |
|
594 |
8 |
| COAL |
0 |
7 |
|
595 |
3 |
| Strong grey metal, inclining to post |
8 |
5 |
|
603 |
8 |
| White post girdle |
1 |
9 |
|
605 |
5 |
| Grey metal |
0 |
8 |
|
606 |
1 |
| White post, mixed with leafy post |
16 |
10 |
|
622 |
11 |
| Grey metal and ironstone girdles |
7 |
9 |
|
630 |
8 |
| COAL - Hutton Seam |
2 |
0 |
|
632 |
8 |
| COAL (got July 13th, 1876) |
2 |
0½ |
|
|
|
| Seggar, strong at bottom |
1 |
6 |
|
634 |
2 |
| Grey metal, with post girdles |
13 |
4 |
|
647 |
6 |
| Hard jointy grey post, about 80 gallons of water per minute |
7 |
8 |
|
655 |
2 |
| Grey metal and post girdles |
2 |
10 |
|
658 |
0 |
| Black mussel bed |
0 |
4 |
|
658 |
4 |
| Grey metal, with iron balls |
0 |
7 |
|
658 |
11 |
| Black stone |
0 |
5 |
|
659 |
4 |
| Grey metal, mixed with pieces of ironstone |
6 |
4 |
|
665 |
8 |
| COAL (Jan. 24th, 1877) |
2 |
4 |
|
668 |
0 |
| Dark thill |
0 |
9 |
|
668 |
9 |
| Seggar, strong at the bottom |
4 |
0 |
|
672 |
9 |
| Grey metal |
12 |
10 |
|
685 |
7 |
| Dark metal |
0 |
8 |
|
686 |
3 |
| COAL |
0 |
1 |
|
686 |
4 |
| Dark seggar, mixed with iron balls |
5 |
6 |
|
691 |
10 |
| Grey metal, with iron balls, post girdles, and a few prints (a leader of fault here, downthrow South 2½ inches) |
21 |
9 |
|
713 |
7 |
| White post, with a little water |
9 |
3 |
|
722 |
11 |
| Light grey metal |
0 |
3 |
|
723 |
2 |
| COAL |
1 |
1 |
|
724 |
3 |
| COAL |
0 |
2 |
|
|
|
| COAL, mixed with black stone |
0 |
11½ |
|
|
|
| Seggar |
0 |
2 |
|
724 |
6 |
| Dark grey post, with thin white post girdles |
8 |
1 |
|
732 |
7 |
| White post, with a little water |
2 |
9 |
|
735 |
4 |
| Dark grey leafy post |
3 |
2 |
|
738 |
6 |
| Dark metal, with iron girdles |
5 |
0 |
|
743 |
6 |
| COAL, slaty (dips east, 9 in. to the yard) |
0 |
2 |
|
743 |
8 |
| Dark seggar, with ironstone balls |
3 |
0 |
|
746 |
8 |
| Strong grey metal, like post, with hard white post girdles |
18 |
4 |
|
765 |
0 |
| White post, mixed with whin and a little water |
12 |
8 |
|
777 |
8 |
| Dark metal |
1 |
8 |
|
779 |
4 |
| Grey metal, with ironstone girdles |
7 |
4 |
|
786 |
8 |
| Dark metal, with ironstone pebbles |
7 |
0 |
|
793 |
8 |
| Seggar |
1 |
0 |
|
794 |
8 |
| Mild grey post, like seggar next top |
7 |
6 |
|
802 |
2 |
| White post, mixed with whin, and 120 gallons of water per minute (there is a good deal of gas in this post) |
38 |
10 |
|
841 |
0 |
| Grey metal, mixed with ironstone |
4 |
5 |
|
845 |
5 |
| Post girdles |
0 |
2 |
|
845 |
7 |
| Grey metal, with ironstone girdles |
2 |
7 |
|
848 |
2 |
| Grey mottled stone |
0 |
3 |
|
848 |
5 |
| COAL - Harvey Seam |
5 |
1 |
|
853 |
6 |
| COAL (June, 1877) |
1 |
7½ |
|
|
|
| Stone band seggar |
0 |
4 |
|
|
|
| COAL |
2 |
2 |
|
|
|
| Bored further :— |
0 |
0 |
|
853 |
6 |
| Seggar |
3 |
2 |
|
856 |
8 |
| Grey metal |
2 |
4 |
|
859 |
0 |
| Black stone |
0 |
3 |
|
859 |
3 |
| Seggar |
1 |
9 |
|
861 |
0 |
| Black stone and seggar in thin layers |
0 |
7 |
|
861 |
7 |
| Seggar |
3 |
9 |
|
865 |
4 |
| Strong grey post, with metal partings |
12 |
0 |
|
877 |
4 |
| Strong grey metal and post girdles |
49 |
1 |
|
926 |
5 |
| Grey metal, with water and gas |
0 |
5 |
|
926 |
10 |
| Hard white post |
1 |
10 |
|
928 |
8 |
| Grey metal, with post girdles |
16 |
9 |
|
945 |
5 |
| Hard white post |
28 |
4 |
|
973 |
9 |
| Hard grey post |
3 |
8 |
|
977 |
5 |
| Hard white post |
13 |
5 |
|
990 |
10 |
| Strong grey metal, with post girdles |
16 |
9 |
|
1007 |
7 |
| Dark grey metal |
0 |
10 |
|
1008 |
5 |
| COAL |
1 |
10 |
|
1010 |
3 |
| COAL |
1 |
1½ |
|
|
|
| Brown band |
0 |
1½ |
|
|
|
| COAL |
0 |
7 |
|
|
|
| Grey metal |
1 |
10 |
|
1012 |
1 |
| Dark grey metal |
2 |
7 |
|
1014 |
8 |
| Strong grey metal |
11 |
10 |
|
1026 |
6 |
| Black metal |
0 |
2 |
|
1026 |
8 |
| COAL |
4 |
10 |
|
1031 |
6 |
| COAL |
2 |
8 |
|
|
|
| Dark grey metal, with scares of coal |
0 |
11 |
|
|
|
| COAL, with danty partings |
1 |
3 |
|
|
|
| Strong grey metal |
2 |
8 |
|
1034 |
2 |
| Dark grey metal |
5 |
3 |
|
1039 |
5 |
| Hard grey post |
4 |
5 |
|
1043 |
10 |
| Hard white post |
13 |
5 |
|
1057 |
3 |
| Strong light grey metal |
10 |
2 |
|
1067 |
5 |
| Soil |
0 |
4 |
|
1067 |
9 |
| Light grey metal |
1 |
3 |
|
1069 |
0 |
| Black metal, with a little coal |
0 |
10 |
|
1069 |
10 |
| Hard white post and metal partings |
10 |
2 |
|
1080 |
0 |
| Strong grey metal |
7 |
3 |
|
1087 |
3 |
| COAL |
0 |
4 |
|
1087 |
7 |
| Strong grey metal, with post girdles |
12 |
2 |
|
1099 |
9 |
| Strong grey post |
4 |
5 |
|
1104 |
2 |
| Hard white post |
3 |
1 |
|
1107 |
3 |
| Strong grey metal |
5 |
9 |
|
1113 |
0 |
| Dark grey metal |
3 |
2 |
|
1116 |
2 |
| COAL |
5 |
6 |
|
1121 |
8 |
| COAL |
0 |
10½ |
|
|
|
| Soft brown shale band |
0 |
1½ |
|
|
|
| COAL, hard splint |
0 |
3 |
|
|
|
| Dark shale band, with scares of coal |
0 |
4 |
|
|
|
| COAL, with thin shale partings |
0 |
9 |
|
|
|
| Black shale, with much coal |
0 |
3 |
|
|
|
| COAL |
0 |
6 |
|
|
|
| COAL, cannel |
0 |
3 |
|
|
|
| COAL, good |
1 |
3 |
|
|
|
| Band |
0 |
2 |
|
|
|
| COAL, good |
0 |
3 |
|
|
|
| COAL, coarse, and shale partings |
0 |
1½ |
|
|
|
| Dark shale band, with scares of coal |
0 |
1½ |
|
|
|
| COAL, with shale |
0 |
3 |
|
|
|
| Very dark grey metal, with post girdles |
12 |
2 |
|
1133 |
10 |
| COAL |
0 |
4 |
|
1134 |
2 |
| Hard grey post |
1 |
4 |
|
1135 |
6 |
| * Standing set bunton left upon this crib; walling crib at the bottom of this 2 fs. 2 ft. 6in. |
0 |
0 |
|
1135 |
6 |