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If these two outcrops belong to the same bed of shale, it is not 

 Sirgora coal probably unlikely that the coal found at Sirgora will also 

 extends under this shale, be found beneath, as this seems to be a fairly 

 constant seam ; to test this it would be advisable to put down a bor- 

 ing here also. 



Mr. Arthur Sopwith also visited the Sirgora seam in 1867 when he 

 reported on this area. 



This Sirgora seam if explored would probably not be found to 

 extend more than about one and a half miles to the north in a direct 

 line, i.e., as far as the run of the Pench fault, to which it owes its 

 position ; the fault, which will be more fully described in the next 

 section, having thrown the Barakars and Moturs down at this point. 



As regards an extension of the seam to the eastwards for any 

 Seam not of any large considerable distance along the strike, the 

 extent - chances are very small, as Sirgora is nearly at 



the eastern limit of the basin ; for near Thesgora, 3 miles to the east* 

 north-east, an inlier of metamorphics is exposed surrounded by the 

 trap and the infra-trappean conglomerates, without any intervening 

 Gondwana rocks. To the south the coal, though not seen, must either 

 outcrop just north of the trap boundary or at a short distance under 

 the trap. To the west it probably extends as far as the fault. 



§ 9. — The Barkoi Field. 



The Barakars in this area cover 7*4 square miles. The name is that 

 of a village (Burkooee of small scale map, E. 

 Barakars covered by Lc-n. . 7 8°46') near which an important seam 

 of coal is exposed. To the south the field is cut 

 off at the eastern end by the Pench fault, while further towards the 

 west it passes under an outlying plateau of the basaltic formation. At 

 the western end the Moturs, which form a watershed between the 

 basins of the Kanhan and Pench rivers, cover the Barakars and extend 

 along the northern boundary towards the east, till themselves covered 

 by an extension of the main mass of trap. The field extends from 



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