DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS OF THE RESPECTIVE COALFIELDS. Qij 
Pakokku and Myimjyan Districts. — In 1873 Captain G. A. 
Strover ^ mentions that coal is known to exist in the Pakokku 
district at Yaignaw, east of Nattaik, in the neighbourhood of 
Yaw. The locality was visited by Mr. P. N. Datta in 1892. No 
workable deposit was discovered. The analysis ^ of a sample 
from near Pakhoung village shows that the coal is a lignite of 
fair quality. Captain Strover also refers to an outcrop of coal 
near Pagan in the Myingyan district. 
Panlaung river, etc. — This coalfield is situated partly in the 
Meiktila district and partly in the Southern Shan States, at a 
point about GO miles south-south-east of Mandalay. Coal in this 
neighbourhood was mentioned as occurring at Minajjalaung by 
Captain Strover ^ in 1873. The area was examined by E. J. Jones * 
in 1887, who reports that the extent over which coal occurs is 
from 150 to 200 sq. miles. He examined 11 separate groups of 
outcrops, the most promising being at Thabyetaungdan, where seams 
respectively 2 feet and 5| feet thick were found. The rocks are of 
Tertiary age, and are much disturbed, lying at angles approximating 
to the vertical. Owing to this feature and the thinness and 
extreme inconstancy of the coal seams together with the crushed 
condition of the coal Mr. Jones was not sanguine of its profitable 
exploitation. From the following analysis it can be seen that 
some of the coal is of excellent chemical quality : — 
Average of Average of 
3 saiaples. 4 samples. 
Moisture 2-68 2-76 
Volatile matter 21 -SI 10-63 
Fixed carbon 72-39 64-58 
Ash 3-62 22-03 
A considerable amount of coal is said to have been quarried 
from these outcrops in King Mindoon's time, for use at the Sagaing 
iron-works. Coal seams of similar character but inferior quality 
were also examined by Mr. Jones at Legaung, near Singulebyin 
and Ngu, near Pwehla, localities some 20 odd miles south-east of 
the Panlaung coalfield. About 12 miles still further south-east the 
same observer found a seam of lignite of moderate quality at Thigyit, 
^ Imlian Economist, V, 14 (187."}). 
: ^ 0. S. I., Laboratory Records. 
^ Indian Economist, V, 14 (1873).i 
* Bee, G. S. I., XX, 177 (1887). 
