216 WYNNE: TRANS-INDUS SALT REGION, KOHAT DISTRICT. 



mountain stream, and beneath dark gray and black bituminous gypsum. 

 The stratification seems to be at a low angle inclined to dip northerly ; 

 close by are rotten alum shales and some sulphurous springs. 



The locality is one of much disturbance and complexity, and the 

 low level at which the salt is seen is against it as a place for mining. 



Zyarutti. — Two small exposures of salt are said to be known beneath 

 debris on the southern slopes of Zyarutti hill. 



15. Zaino or Zino quarries. — These occur at the eastern side of the 

 ellipsoid hill, within which the Malgin quarries are worked, but no work- 

 ings are carried on here. At this locality going from west to east are six 

 large crateriform hollows, which all contain more or less salt. The de- 

 pressions are at least 100 feet deep, and must be drained subterraneously 

 by channels probably leading towards the Teeree (Tiri) river through salt 

 gypsum and debris. The stratification of the salt appears nearly hori- 

 zontal, as might be expected close to the axis of an anticlinal curve, and 

 that it was once all overlaid by gypsum appears likely from the quantity of 

 this rock lying about in broken fragments. In one of the hollows, a salt 

 outcrop, 50 feet high, showed a regular stratum of gypsum, 10 feet thick, 

 overlying the salt. The upper beds of the latter appeared very black, 

 but when broken did not smell as might have been expected. Large 

 masses o£ the salt were found which would be of inferior quality as re- 

 gards consumption. At some places lower strata of better quality were 

 seen ; by keeping to these lower beds, salt of sufficiently good quality 

 might be procured at any time. Beyond the crater-like hollows salt ap- 

 peared also in a small transverse ravine, and beyond that another outcrop 

 showed on the hill side. This last is very near the top of the ridge, at 

 least 700 feet above the adjoining river valley; thus mining ought to 

 have good prospects here. The extent of the Zaino exposures is half a 

 mile in the direction of the ridge, but the breadth is small. Quarries 

 are said to have been worked here in former times, but there are no traces 

 of them now. 



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