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2=1,132,560 tons, and it is stated to be equal to the average coal 
of the Wardah fields. Its position is unfavourable to its deve- 
lopment, water carriage being too far distant. 
The smaller field, which is about half a square mile in area, is 
of no importance. 
XXX.—SINGARENI.* 
This field is situated near the village of Singareni in the 
Hyderabad territory, about thirty miles to the south-east of the 
Kamaram Field. Its area is nineteen square miles, the coal 
measures being found throughout about eight square miles. The 
groups represented are Kamthis, Barakars, and Talchirs. One 
coal seam was discovered, but being much concealed, its thickness 
was not ascertained ; an assay of a sample from it gave :— 
Fixed Carbon, : 5 : : . 62°4 
Volatile, 0 c : ¢ : . 22°6 
Moisture (6) . . : : 
Ash, : c : . ; a ale 
100: 
Additional seams, one of them 21 feet thick, have since been 
proved by boring. 
This field may possibly become of some economic importance, 
as there is a prospect of there being a railway constructed at no 
great distance from it. 
SIKKIM. 
XXXI.—Darsinine DIstRIict.t 
This field occupies a narrow zone, which stretches along the 
foot of the Himalayas, from Pankabari to Dalingkote. The rocks 
are probably Barakars, which have been much crushed and tilted, 
dipping at angles of from 40° to 90° to N.N.E., or towards the main 
mass of the hills. Frequently the sandstones have been converted 
into quartzites, and the shales into splintery slates. Much of the 
coal is in the condition of powder, and some of it has assumed the 
character of graphite. The effect of the compression has been to 
reduce it by removal of the volatile portions to the condition of 
an anthracite. Some experiments were made with a view to 
* King, loc. cit., p.65. “Manual,” Vol. I., p. 241. 
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