COAL-MEASURES.
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measures. The section here is of a totally different character from that near Wolverhampton, as may be seen by the following examples:—
FT. | IN. | FT. | IN. | |||
Blue flats | Iron stone | 0 | 4 | |||
Binds | 3 | 0 | – | |||
Ironstone | 0 | 1 | ||||
Binds | 1 | 6 | – | |||
Ironstone | 0 | 2 | ||||
Binds with ironstone nodules | 9 | 8 | – | |||
Silver threads | Ironstone | 0 | 1 | |||
Binds | 1 | 0 | – | |||
Binds with ironstone | 3 | 4 | – | |||
Ironstone | 0 | 2 | ||||
Binds | 6 | 0 | – | |||
Diamonds | Ironstone | 0 | 3 | |||
Binds | 1 | 4 | – | |||
Ironstone | 0 | 2 | ||||
Binds | 1 | 5 | – | |||
27 | 3 | 1 | 3 |
(See Vertical Sections, sheets 16 and 26, Nos.nb6, 40, and 45.)
FT. | IN. | FT. | IN. | |||
Blue flats | Ironstone cake | 0 | 3 | |||
Blue clod | 1 | 0 | – | |||
Ironstone | 0 | 3 | ||||
Blue and white clod | 3 | 7 | – | |||
Ironstone balls, called grandads | 0 | 8 | ||||
White clod | 10 | 0 | – | |||
Silver threads | Ironstone | 0 | 3 | |||
White clod | 2 | 8 | – | |||
Ironstone | 0 | 4 | ||||
White clod | 3 | 0 | – | |||
Ironstone | 0 | 3 | ||||
White clod | 7 | 6 | – | |||
Balls of ironstone (sometimes) | 0 | 8 | ||||
White clod | 7 | 0 | – | |||
Diamonds | Ironstone | 0 | 3 | |||
Black clod | 2 | 0 | – | |||
Ironstone | 0 | 4 | ||||
36 | 9 | 3 | 3 |
(See Vertical Sections, sheet 16, No. 7.)
Going still farther north, again, the ironstones seem to be rapidly dying out and disappearing. At Dudley Brothers colliery, for instance, about half a mile west of Bloxwich, although these measure were still recognizable, they contained so little ironstone as not to be worth working ; while around Pelsall they sank at one place 150 feet below the Bottom coal without finding either coal or ironstone, till at that