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BALL AND SIMPSON: COALFIELDS OF INDIA. 
Ballarpur, Sasli and Paoni.—This coal area lies 7 miles S. S. E: 
of Chanda and is situated chiefly on the Hyderabad side of the river. 
At an early date borings proved coal in two local basins, one 
between Paoni and Gaori and the other east of Sasti. The average 
thickness is 40 feet, which, over an area of 1| square miles, gives 
60 million tons of coal. Analyses of the coal are 
Average 
of 2 
outcrop 
Average 
samijles 
of 5 
of the 
sainj)les 
lower 7i 
from A 
feet 
sliaft. 
and. 
4-50 
1 22-7G 
3G-20 
50-55 
GO-95 
8-75 
IG-29 
Moisture 
Volatile matter 
Fixed carbon 
Ash . 
In 1905 an exploration for coal was carried on by the Govern- 
ment of the Central Provinces at Ballarpur on the British side of 
the river. Borings proved 36 million tons of workable coal over an 
area of 2 square miles. Two pits reached the seam, which exceeds 
50 feet (20 feet workable) in thickness, at a depth of 200 feet from 
the surface. A working colliery has since been established and in 
1910 the output was 93,276 tons. Up till July 1910 some 200,000 
tons of coal had been raised from this mine. An analysis of a 
sample from the boring cores gave the following result : — 
Moisture 11-10 
Volatile matter ....... 31-56 
Fixed carbon ....... 45-47 
Ash 11-87 
Bandar.^ — This field is situated near the village of Chimur, 
30 miles north-east of Warora, in the Chanda District. The exist- 
ence of coal measures under a small tract of Kamthi beds, five to 
six miles square, has been proved by boring. Three seams of coal 
have been ascertained to exist, and these have a maximum total 
thickness of 38 feet. The coal is similar in character to that of 
Warora. 
1 Hughes : Metn., G. 8. I., XIII, 145 (1877). 
