Merthyr Dare Colliery

of Aberdare

1871 For Sale. 'LEASEHOLD COLLIERY, known as the MERTHYR DARE COLLIERY, situate about Two Miles from Aberdare, lying between Powell's Duffryn Company's Cwm Dare Colliery, the Bwllfa Marine Steam Coal Company's Colliery, and Mr. Mordecai Jones's Nantmelin Merthyr Steam Coal Colliery, having direct communications by Sidings onto the Great Western Railway with the Shipping Ports of Swansea, Port-Talbot, Britton-Ferry, Cardiff, and Newport, as well as Liverpool and London. The Dare Branch of the Taff Vale Railway runs over the Property. The total area of the Mineral Property is 482 Acres, and there are underlying the surface Fourteen Seams of Coal of the aggregate thickness of 58 feet or thereabouts besides the Grain Vein, which crops out on the Property, there about 340 Acres of the upper four feet Vein unworked, and the district has been proved on two opposite sides of the taking. The Colliery was opened in 1852, and but a small portion of the Upper Seams has been worked. The Coal is well known in the Steam Coal Market.=, and is on the Admiralty List. The Colliery has been opened with two Downcast Shafts and one Upcast. No. 1 Pit is sunk to the Upper Four Feet Seam, a depth of 120 yards; and No. 2 Pit is sunk to the Nine Feet Seam, a depth of 164 yards. The Workings are thoroughly ventilated and are equal to an output of between 200 and 300 tons per day, which, by a comparative moderate outlay, may be increased to 800 or 800 tons....'

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