MEMOIRS 



OF THE 



GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OE INDIA. 



On the Aukunga and Hutae Coal Fields and the Iron Ores 



OF Palamow and ToreEj hy V. Ball, M.A., F.G.S., Geological 



Survey of India. 



introduction. 



About fifty years have elapsed since attention was first directed by Mr. 

 A. Prinsep to Palamow, the object being to open out the coal fields 

 then known to exist, and so obtain a supply of cheap fuel for the 

 steam navigation of the Ganges. It was urged that an immense saving 

 would accrue to Government by the establishment of a coal depot at 

 Futwah, only a few miles from Patna, which would feed all the more 

 western stations on the river. 



To meet this demand the Daltonganj field was worked by the Bengal 

 _ ,j^ . „ , ^ , Coal Company up to the time of the mutiny, when 



Daltongan] nela work- x .; ± j ' 



ed by Bengal Coal Com- the works Were attacked by the rebels and de- 



pany. 



stroyed. Since then coal has been mined, or rather 

 quarried, to a small extent for the supply of the irrigation head- 

 works at Dehree on the Sone, and for the supply for local purposes of some 

 of the nearer towns in the vicinity of the East Indian Railway. During 

 Field not worked at ^^® P^^^ ^^^ years Operations have, however, been in 

 l^^^^®^*' abeyance, owing to the cessation of these local 



demands. 



Memoirs, Geological Survey of India, Vol. XV, Art I. 

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