BALL: CHOPÉ COAL-FIELD. 5 
In the former the coal or coaly shale which has attracted attention 
to this locality lies in a trough dipping at first 
35° to 10° west of north, falling rapidly to the 
horizontal, and where seen near the Talchirs, it has a dip in the opposite 
direction of about 15°. The coal, as stated above, is about four feet thick, 
the remaining forty to forty-five feet of DBarákars being made up of 
Coal seam. 
carbonaceous shales and sandstones. As to the poor quality and extremely 
limited amount of this coal there can be no doubt; possibly a portion 
might be made use of for brick and lime burning, but I regret to say 
that I can give no hope of a useful fuel for general purposes being 
found in this locality. It wiil, I believe, be cheapest in the end for 
those in Hazáríbágh who may require coal even for the inferior purposes 
above mentioned to draw it from the more distant, but vastly, richer 
Bokáro and Káranpárá fields. | 
North of the anticlinal there is a thickness of sixty to seventy feet 
of sandstones and pebble beds, some which are not unlike rogks which 
occasionally occur in the Tálchírs, but as they also resemble Barákars, and 
the interpretation of the section which has been adopted is sufficient to 
explain their existence as such, I am inclined so to regard them. 
The boundaries between the Barákars and Tálchirs on the east and 
west are extremely obscure on account of the superficial deposits, ravines, 
and jungle. 
TALCHIRS. 
In the centre of the Barákars occurs the anticlinal lump of Talchir 
boulder bed already alluded to. It abounds in jaspery-looking masses 
of iron ore and gneiss boulders of the ordinary character. 
Skirting the Barákars on the east, west, and north, there is a more 
or less clearly exposed strip of Tálehírs, the northern extension of which 
is rather abruptly terminated by a fault. 
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