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35 sagenes distance from it. It is one sagene thick and has been followed for a distance of 

 75 sagenes. It is estimated to contain 2,250,000 pouds of coal. The third seam, 9 feet thick, 

 is 50 sagenes from the hanging wall of the second. 



The first Varlamovsk seam is situated on the southern declivity of thelvirchiaksk mountains, 

 lying on the left bank of the Kandoma, near the village of Kirchiaksk. The thickness of the seam 

 is one sagene, and it dips at an angle of 18''. The seam has been followed for a distance of 210 

 sagenes; and is estimated to contain 5,515,000 pouds of coal. The second seam .lies on the hanging 

 wall of the first. Its thickness is 4^'i feet, and it has been followed for a distance of 100 

 sagenes; it is estimated to contain 2,115,000 pouds. The Kirchiaksk seam lies on the northern 

 side of the western end of the Kirchiaksk mountain. It is up to 7 sagenes thick and has a dip 

 of 29°. On the northern declivity of the same mountain there are seven seams of coal, known 

 by the name of the «Ozernyi» or lake seams, owing to their situation on lake Kirchiak. All 

 these seams form one series, lying in a schistose clay. They include one seam 4\ 2 feet thick; 

 two, one sagene thick; and three, 2 sagenes thick. They have not been followed up for more 

 than 100 sagenes, and have been estimated to contain over 12"2 million pouds of coal. The 

 Araldinsk seam outcrops at the bank of the river Aralda, which falls into the Kandoma on 

 the right, opposite the village of Kirchiaksk. This seam is over 6 sagenes thick and has a dip 

 of 18°. It has been explored for 120 sagenes along the strike, and it is estimated to contain 

 18 million pouds of coal. It is calculated that all the seams situated in the neighbourhood 

 of the village of Kaltansk contain a store of over 65 million pouds of coal. 



Further in the eastern portion of the basin, coal seams have been discovered in the 

 neighbourhood of the town of Kouznetsk, on the banks of the river Toma, near the village 

 of Artamonov above the town, and below the villages of Ilinsk and Shorokhova. 



Exploratory workings have been carried on in the south-western extremity of the 

 basin near the villages of Berezova and Kostenkova. The workings made near the village 

 of Berezova showed that there the coal seams appear in the form of four separate series, at 

 short distances from one another. The first series consists of four seams, from 2V''2 to 11 ','2 

 feet thick. The second is composed of two seams SV's and 7 feet thick. The third series 

 includes eight seams from 2^J2 to 8'/2 feet thick, and lastly the fourth series consists of four 

 seams from 2'/2 to 5 sagenes thick. In exploring these seams four of the thickest beds were 

 followed up for a distance of 70 to 2,(XiO sagenes along the strike, and along the dip 

 to the level of the river Berezovka only, and over 210 million pouds of coal were determined. 

 Three seams of coal, one of which is 2'/2 sagenes thick, have been discovered to the 

 east of the village of Berezova, on the banks of the river Kandalena. A whole series of 

 seams closely resembling the four series of the Berezovsk veins, has been found at two 

 versts distance to the north of the village of Kostenkova on the river Kozlovka. This 

 series consists of nine seams from 3 feet to 4V2 sagenes thicks. Four seams have been 

 explored for a distance of about 400 sagens and are estimated to contain a store of 40' /a 

 million pouds of coal. In general the coal fields of the south-western extremity of the basin, 

 near the villages of Berezovka and Kostenkova, contain a store of over 250 million pouds of 

 coal. The Magansk coal field has been found at five versts distance to the east of the 

 village of Prokopievsk, to the north of Berezova, on the left side of the river ]\Iaganak 



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