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ASIATIC SOCIETY 



Notes on the Pokree and Dhanpoor Copper Mines in Gherwal. By 

 Siegmund Reckendorf, Esq , Mining Engineer. 



After the commissioner, Mr. Lushington's report, Vol. XII. Journ. As. 

 Soc. 1843, little remains to be said about the situation of these mines. 

 Pokree is on the right, Dhanpoor on the left side of the Douliganga, 

 both about six miles horizontal distance from the river, and twelve miles 

 between themselves. From Pokree I saw Dhanpoor distinctly, and it 

 appeared about 1,000 to 1,500 feet higher situated. Putting the com- 

 pass in h. 17 or hs. (15° E. to S. or 15° W. to N.) I had on the bear- 

 ing — therefore in one line — on one side the Rajah's mine, and (accord- 

 ing to the statement of the people,) several places where the same talcose 

 slate occurs as in the Pokree mine. On the other side, I had a 

 place, called Deehoor, on the road to the valley of the Gunga ; and on 

 the Dhanpoor side a place little below the village, both places con- 

 taining the slate. The layer of talcose slate containing the copper ore is 

 therefore a very extensive one, and there is every reason to believe, that 

 the copper goes as far as the slate, and the slate as far as the formation, 

 to which 1 consider the slate to belong. Indeed it requires very little 

 attention from an eye, practised in researches after minerals, to see that 

 the whole of the known copper mines from the Nepal teraee in the east, 

 till beyond the Pokree mine in the west, are only parts of one layer of not 

 very great thickness, which perhaps may have been subdivided in two or 

 three thinner layers, by some other oreless layers of slate or limestone 



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