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RANIGANJ COAL FIELD. 



Chap. IV. § 4.] 



Deziragarh. 



The principal backs run North 15° East; and smaller ones strike 

 West 40° North, and North 35° West. The mine has not been long 

 worked. The coal is of fair quality. 



About a mile E. S. E., from Hatinal colliery, a seam crops out in 

 the bed of a small stream South-west of Dezira- 

 garh. It was formerly worked by Messrs. Carr, 

 Tacore and Co., but the quarries have fallen in ; the thickness of the 

 seam cannot be distinguished ; it is probably from 5 to 6 feet. 



East of this, and near the river, in the broken ground South of the 

 village of Shatulptir, two or three out-crops are seen, but the whole 

 section is best exposed in the Htiral, commencing about due West 

 of the village of Radanagar. The lowest seam of coal seen is 5 or 6 

 feet thick apparently, but in this, as in most other cases, the exact 

 dimensions are doubtful. 



About 150 or 200 feet of sandstone, generally fine and micaceous, in 

 thin beds, with much shale, intervene between 

 this seam and a second, also about 5 feet thick ; 

 20 feet above the second is a third seam, apparently of good quality, 

 but only 3 or 4 feet thick, and just above the last are two or three very 

 thin seams, not exceeding 1 foot each. The remainder of the section 

 to the place where the stream enters the Damuda, is approximately the 



following : — 



(Ascending.) 



1 . Coarse false-bedded sandstone, about 



2. Coal 



3. Sandstone and shale 



4. Coal, thickness not seen 



5. Sandstone and shale 



6. Coal 



7. Sandstone 



8. Shale 



9. Sandstone 



10. Shale, carbonaceous, and with some coal in the upper portion 



1 1 . Hard sandstone 



Section in the Hural 

 stream. 





Ft. 



in. 





. 50 







... 



5 







... 



.. 150 







. 



. 







... 



. 20 







. 



. 2 







... . 



.. 2 







... a 



1 







• 



3 







portion . 



3 







... . 



.. 2 



6 



