✨ Table of coal trial statistics
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TABLES COMPILED BY MR. BURNETT, MINING SURVEYOR, FROM FOREGOING REPORTS.
TABLE I.
Mr. Burnett's 105. Result of Trials of the Coal from the Grey and Buller, compared with North of England, Welsh, and New South Wales Coal.
(All trials having been made at Woolwich Dockyard.)
| Kind of Coal. | Date of trial. | Width of Bars. | lbs Water evaporated by 1lb Coal, at a constant temperature of 100° feed water. | Cubic feet Water evaporated per hour, at a constant temp. of 100° feed water. | Per centage of |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| | | | | | Clinker. | Ash. | Ash and Clinker. |
| Average North of England | ... | ... | 8·25 | 47·00 | 1·00 | 4·00 | 5·00 |
| North of England (Mean of 10 trials.) | ... | ... | 8·72 | 50·32 | 2·17 | 3·71 | 5·89 |
| Welsh (Mean of 10 trials.) | ... | ... | 9·11 | 47·75 | 1·94 | 4·22 | 6·16 |
| New South Wales (Eleven different kinds.) | ... | ... | 8·298 | 46·755 | 2·11 | 7·15 | 9·26 |
| Grey— In Boxes, dead small taken out Worst result | 1865 November 17 | ½ inch | 9·00 | 39·19 | ·53 | 4·32 | 4·86 |
| Best result | December 4 | ⅜ inch | 9·90 | 45·25 | ·27 | 3·10 | 3·37 |
| MEAN of 4 trials | ... | ½ & ⅜ in. | 9·46 | 42·76 | ·35 | 3·25 | 3·60 |
| † Grey— In Bags, dead small— Not stoked | 1866 January 12 | ⅜ inch | 9·46 | 40·36 | ·66 | 3·25 | 4·01 |
| Not stoked | January 13 | ⅜ inch | 9·46 | 43·24 | ·80 | 3·85 | 4·65 |
| MEAN | ... | ⅜ inch | 9·46 | 41·80 | ·73 | 3·60 | 4·33 |
| Stoked | January 15 | ⅜ inch | 9·40 | 44·58 | ·71 | 3·60 | 4·31 |
| Stoked | January 17 | ⅜ inch | 9·36 | 43·99 | ·84 | 3·60 | 4·44 |
| Stoked | January 18 | ⅜ inch | 9·46 | 44·87 | ·52 | 3·10 | 3·62 |
| MEAN | ... | ⅜ inch | 9·42 | 44·48 | ·69 | 3·43 | 4·12 |
| GENERAL AVERAGE | ... | ½ & ⅜ in. | 9·43 | 43·05 | ·61 | 3·52 | 4·13 |
| ‡ Buller (One trial) | 1865 December 13 | ⅜ inch | 9·83 | 43·92 | ·91 | 3·30 | 4·21 |
- From a Woolwich Report, May 1st, 1862, published in the Sydney Morning Herald, 20th September, 1862, and republished in Mr. Burnett's Report on the Coal-field of New South Wales (Nelson Government Gazette, 21st February, 1865).
† The Grey coal in bags was sent to England by mistake; it was the dead small taken out when the boxes were packed. It shows satisfactorily that even the dead small of this coal is nearly as good as any part of it.
‡ The reason there was only one trial of Buller coal is, that, owing to the difficulty of conveying it from the seam to the Port, without road, only two tons were sent to England.
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Nelson Provincial Gazette 1868, No 20
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Trials of Nelson (New Zealand) coal in comparison with North Country and Welsh coal
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- Mr. Burnett, Mining Surveyor who compiled the tables