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3. Damuda series, Bardkar group. — I met with two seams^ one 

 in the Khairboni Nuddi measuring- 1' 2" containing fair coal; and 

 another, not so good but thicker in the Sidh river, nearly due north-east 

 of Hairuka, dipping at 30° to the south-west. 



Fault. — There appears to be only one fault, and it forms the south 

 boundary of the field cutting off the upper beds of the Barakars. 



Dykes, — Are two in number ; the large one, where it passes south 

 of Surasbad, has been utilised by the teekadar, and converted into the 

 bund of a tank. This application of dykes to an economic purpose is to 

 be met with in many parts of the country ; and in Bundelkund I am 

 informed by my colleague Mr. Mallet that the quartz reefs are utilised 

 in the same way. 



IV. — Economic Summaey. 



These fields are admirably situated with regard to railway com- 

 munication. 



The sandstones of the Barakars may be employed in bridgino* the 

 Jainti just as they have been similarly employed at the Barakar river • 

 Kunkur occurs over most of the Talchir area, and especially where the 

 calcareous sandstones of the series are uncovered. 



Ironstones, — do not, to the best of my belief, exist. 



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