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HUGHES : KURHUEBARf COAL FIELD. 



The quality of the Kurhurbari coal has been tested by several assays. 

 The specimens which gave the best results were obtained from localities 

 in the east of the field, where the coal is of better quality than it is in the 

 south-west :— 



Locality. 



Fixed carbon. 



Volatile 

 matter- 



Ash. 



Eemaeks. 



MoUicliuan ... 



64-9 



24-8 



10-3 





Ditto 



68-6 



24-8 



6-6 





Ditto 

 PassarabHa .., 



731 



68-5 



22-1 

 19-0 



4-8 

 12-5 



This was probably a 

 picked, specimen. 



Buriadili 



66-3 



230 



10-7 





Chunjka 



67-2 



24-0 



8-8 





Bali* 



50-9 



15-1 



34-0 



• 



Ditto 



48-2 



12-6 



39-2 





Khundilia 



57-1 



16-4 



26-5 





Eamnuddi 

 Kuiaiha 



69-8 

 71-8 



23-4 

 24-0 



8-81 

 4-23 



Caking coals. 



The better seams represent a superior working- duty to that of 

 the coals of the Uanigunj district. The experiments, continued- over 

 3 months on the East Indian Railway, proved clearly that the coals 

 raised in the Kurhurbari field were better than those obtained from the 

 Eanigunj field. Since these trials were made other seams have been 

 opened out in the Ranigunj field, such as Sitarampur, Sanktoria, &c., 

 which are much more nearly equal, if not quite equal, to the Kurhurbari 



* Written Jutkutti in the " Coal Eesources of Lidia." 



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