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HUGHES : KUEHURBAllf COAL PIELD. 29 



The seam as a property suffers seriously from the existence of 

 the large dyke to the west of the shaft; otherwise, the goodness of its 

 coal renders it valuable. 



.BammidcU nullah. — In this stream, a bed of shaly coal was cut 

 1' &" thick, at about 15 feet from the surface. 



Bali Hill. ^ — A. thick bed of inferior coal is partially seen out- 

 cropping on the north escarpment of the largest hill of the Bali 

 group. The following section was cut in sinking a shaft above the 

 escarpment :— 



1. Top soil and coarse broken sandstone 



2. Coal, shaly and inferior 



3. Soft, fine, grained sandstone 



4. Shale 



5. Brown, coarse-grained sandstone ... 



6. Hard grey sandstone (not cnt through) 



This coal is of inferior quality, and resembles the useless seams (of 

 which it is probably the representative), that were found in the 

 Bhuddua and Komaljore group of hills. 



The onlj^ locality that now remains to be described, in which out- 

 crops of coal have been discovered, is the Koomarsote river and its 

 tributaries. 



Koomarsote nuddi. — The lowest seam exposed is separated by a 

 small thickness of grey felspathic sandstone, and fine arenaceous shales 

 from the Talchirs. The section at its out-crop gives about 2 feet of 

 inferior coal. The dip is east-north-east. Higher up the stream, the dip 

 changes to north-east and eventually to north. 



* This hiU is, I believe erroneously, termed Jatakuti or Jakuti hill. From enquiries 

 which I made Jatakuti would appear to be west and not east of the Khakho nuddi. 



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