HUGHES : KTJRHURBARI COAL FIELD. 



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will be influenced by the crushing in the proximity of the northern 

 boundary. The most favorable direction is south-west of Passarabhia. 



It appears from a section seen in a shaft a few paces west of pit 

 No. 2, that there is a break in the rocks, the thick beds of coal found 

 to the east of the break not being found anywhere to the west, although 

 trial shafts were sunk in search of them. 



The following is the section of shaft sunk near No. 2 : — 



Ft. In. 



6 



1 6 



1 3 



1 6 



1. 



Top soil 



... 



2. 



Soft sandstone 





3. 



Coal 



... 



4. 



Hard sandstone 



... 



5. 



Blue shale with thin 



layer of coal 



6. 



Hard sandstone 



... 



7. 



Coal 





8. 



Hard sandstone 



... 



9. 



Coal ... 



... 



10. 



Hard sandstone 



... 



11. 



Coal 





Ft. 



In. 



11 







11 







11 



6 



3 



8 



2 



4 



11 



It has before been stated that the rocks turn round and chano-e their 

 strike near Kuldiha. It is therefore not improbable that the break is 

 connected with this change of strike, and the opposing dip of the west 

 boundary. 



JBliundaridili. — South-east of Bhundaridih (a village outside the 

 limit of the field), a pit has lately^ been sunk 10 yards from the boimdary. 

 In it, the rocks are seen dipping at 32° south-west, and two beds of coal 

 had been struck when I visited it. Both the beds were so saturated with 

 water that I could not judge of the quality of the coal. 



South of the pit and just north of the railway, the axis of the 

 S3mclinal previously referred to passes, so that whatever the quality of coal 

 may be the circumstance of its position renders it of scarcely any value. 



* November 1868, by the Equitable Coal Co. 



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