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HUGHES: KURHURBARI COAL FIELD. 



whichj in some respects^ corresponds with that at the Domahani mine, 

 two miles and a half to the west, is as follows : — 



1. Top soil 



2. Sandstone 



3. Coal, inferior, with bands of shale 



4. Black shale gradually becoming sandy . 

 5- Hard grey sandstone (not cut through). 



Ft. In. 

 8 

 6 3 



11 3 

 8 3 



Where the seam crops out in the river, the dip is distinctly to the 

 west. A large dyke cuts it near the confluence of the two rivers and 

 a smaller one to the south belonging to the micaceous type of traps. 



The coal at this locality was never worked, .owing to the discovery, 

 shortly after it was cut into, of the better seams at Chunjka. 



South-west of Khundiha, and a short distance from the village, 



two thick beds of shaly coal were cut in a trial shaft. The following 



was the section : — 



Ft. In. 



1. Top soil and sandstone ... ... ... 6 



2. Coal, inferior, with bands of shale ... ...130,' 



3. Shale ... ... ... ... 1 



Khundiha Hill, 4. Coal, inferior ... ... ... ... 6 8 



No. 25.* 5. Black micaceous shale ... ... ... 1 



6. Hard sandstone ... ... ... 15 



7. Hard shaly coal (not cut through) ... ... 10 



These beds are nearly horizontal. None of these seams are worth 

 working, the quality of the coal being too bad. 



Zbjoe.— At Kope, a bedof coal crops out in the nuddi, a little 

 north of its confluence with the Suni. It dips to the north, but the 

 axis of a synclinal passes very close to it, so that it will be found difiicult 

 to work where the present pits are sunk, and the area over which it oc- 

 curs will be small. It may, I think, be looked upon as almost useless. 

 The quality of the coal is also poor. It would appear, indeed, as if there 

 were a decided deterioration in the quality of the seams in the southern 

 part of the field as compared with those in the north. 



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