5S Jones : southern coal-fields of satpura gondwana basin. 



§ 25.— Clay. 

 Good serviceable clay seems to be scarce in this area, that which 



is used for making the very inferior tiles and 

 Inferior clay used. . . . 



bricks used by the villagers being obtained from 

 the very impure alluvial deposits. 



§ 26. — Building Stones. 

 At Sirgora the fine-grained white sandstone, quarried there, 

 Good stones at Sir- would make a g ood building stone ; and near 

 gora and Pathe. Pathe, in the neighbourhood of Shahpur, some of 



the Talchir sandstone was being quarried for building purposes. 



Close by Panara, a sandstone is obtained which is largely used for 



hand-millstones. It is obtained from the Bara- 

 Millstones. 



kars close to the Motur boundary, and consists 



of a mass of coarse quartz sand, with only a small quantity of decom- 

 posed felspar, and harder than the usual Barakar sandstones, which 

 may be due to some of the silica having been deposited in water and 

 redeposited in such a manner as to form a cementing material. 



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