DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS OF THE RESPECTIVE COALFIELDS. 95 
The most important scam outcrops near Tansc and is 5 feet thick. 
Another seam, 11 feet thick, is found near Patakhera, but is faulted 
close to its outcrop and has not been traced to a distance. 
The following analyses of samples of Chhindwara coal have been 
published : — 
Barkui 
field. 
(Average 
of 3 
samples.) 
Tv Jl n lifi 11 
field. 
(Average of 
3 samples 
from 
Panara and 
Datla.) 
Kanhan 
field. 
(Datla.) 
'I'awa 
field. 
(Average of 
2 samples. ) 
iSirgora 
field. 
Moisture . 
r 3-05 
5-34 
3-05 
j 22-8 
1 28 
Volatile matter . 
( 19-08 
28-36 
26-20 
Fixed carbon 
53-5 
31-82 
48-58 
51-90 
61-6 
Ash . 
23-0 
40-0.5 
17-72 
18-85 
10-4 
Extensive prospecting operations were carried on in 1904 chiefly 
in the Barkui (Pench Valley) area, by private firms. The results were 
so encouraging that in 1907 the Bengal Nagpur Railway Company's 
lines were extended to the field. At the present , time the Great 
Indian Peninsula Railway Company is engaged in building a line 
from Itarsi to the coalfield. This should be opened in 1913. 
Since 1905 collieries have been actively worked at Chandameta 
and Barkui, and an output of 87,677 tons of coal was raised in 
1910. A number of other mines were opened in 1908, but are now 
closed down until such time as the extension of the Great Indian Penin- 
sula Railway Company's line into the field enlarges the supply 
market. 
(xiii). Hyderabad. 
Within the limits of the Nizam's territory coal-bearing Barakar 
rocks are found in the following localities, proceeding from south 
to north : Kunnigiri, Madavaram or Damercheria, Lingalla, Singareni, 
Alapalli, Kamaram, Bundella, Chinur (or Sandrapali), Tandur, Aksapur, 
Antargaon and Sasti. 
These localities, with the exception of Alapalli, are all situated 
on or beyond the margins of a tract of Kamthi rocks, which doubt- 
less overlie coal measures, but to what extent is not yet known, 
