112 RANIGANJ COAL FIELD. [CHAP. IV. § 4. 



quarries. More recently, however, shafts have been sunk at Barachuk. 

 The section of the seam is 



Sandy shale and thin sandstone. 



Coal 



Shale 



Coal 



Thickness of seam. 

 Coal in ditto 



Ft. in. 



3 8 

 4 

 6 4 



10 4 

 10 



The dip is South 35° East, about 8°, and throughout this portion of 

 the section it never exceeds 10°. The rocks are a succession of 

 ordinary felspathic sandstones, with frequent interstratifications of finer 

 sandstones and shales, the latter frequently fossiliferous. 



The Barachuk seam is also worked at Fatiptir, nearly a mile further 



West and on the Grand Trunk Boad, the shafts 



being about 90 feet deep. The whole thickness 



of the seam here is said to be 12 feet, but there can be very little 



doubt of its identity with that mined at Barachuk. 



Two more seams, each about 5 feet in thickness, occur above the last- 

 named, and their out-crop is seen in the Ntinia, about half a mile from 

 each other, North of Kumarpur. Both have been worked slightly by Babti 

 Debhidin Sukal, of Majuri, but the quarries have been abandoned for 

 three or four years. Not far above the highest of these seams, Panchet 

 beds come in unconformably in the stream. 



It is probable that but few more coal seams exist in this locality, 



_ ., _ . . besides those described above. Their aggregate 

 Small quantity of coal os> ° 



in this section. thickness amounts to only 58 feet, a very much 



smaller quantity than that known to exist in the Singaran valley, 

 and about Baniganj. Doubtless, the uppermost beds, which contain 

 all the finest seams, are wanting in the Nunia, having been removed 

 by denudation previously to the deposition of the Panchet beds, which 



