MEMOIRS 
OF 
THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA. 
On the Geology and Coal Resources of Korea 
State, Central Provinces. "By L. Leigh Fermor, 
D.Sc, A.R.S.M., F.G.S., Stiperintendent, Geological 
Survey of India. ( IVith 12 plates.) 
CHAPTER I. 
I.— INTRODUCTION 
The only account of the coalfields of Korea State previously 
pubhshed is contained in T. W. H. Hughes' Memoir entitled ' The 
Southern Coal-fields of the Rcwah Gondwilnil Basin : Umaria, 
General Korsir, Johilla, Sohiigpur, Kurasia, Koreagarh, 
Jhilmili ', issued in 1885 as part 3, Volume XXI, 
of the Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India ; but a preliminary 
paper by the same author contains references to the Korean granite 
and to the Talchirs of Kulharia Nala [Records, G. S. I., XIV, 
pp. 311, 312, 317, (1881)]. Of the coalfields enumerated in the 
title of the memoir cited, two, namely Kurasia and Koreagarh, 
lie entirely within the limits of Korea State, whilst the eastern 
end of the Sohagpur field, the main portion of which is situated 
in Rewah State, also lies in Korea. Owing, no doubt, to the 
relatively inaccessible situation of this State, no attention seems 
to have been given to the possibiUty of developing its coal resources 
until 1911, when Mr. E. H. Blakesley, Political Agent to the 
Chhattisgarh Feudatory States, pointed out the desirability of 
investigating the capabilities of the Korean seams. For this purpose 
the Government of the Central Provinces engaged Mr. J. L. Harris, of 
Kamptee, who, after a tour in the State lasting from December 
1911 to February 1912, submitted a report dated the 15th 
