171 FERMOR: GEOLOGY AND COAL RESOURCES OF KOREA, C. P. 
CHAPTER VI. 
THE BARAKARS. 
Resting on the Talcliirs come the Barakars, of which, as will 
D" t "but" ^ reference to the map, there 
are four separate patches within the limits of 
the State. 
The most northerly of these, which is also by far the largest, 
stretches right across the State from boundary to boundary with 
a maximum length of about 50 miles in an E. by S. direction 
and a width of 8 to 12 miles at right angles to the strike, which 
averages E. by N. This patch corresponds approximately with 
the second of the table-lands mentioned on p. 154, and is the 
eastern extension of the Sohagpur coalfield, continuing to the 
E. into the Jhilmili zamindari of Sarguja State, where it joins on 
to another coalfield known as the Jhilmili coalfield. For this 
northern strip of Barakars, I have suggested the name Sanhat 
coalfield (see p. 150) ; its total area is about 330 sq. miles and 
its highest point, Chamat Hill, 2,797 feet. 
To the west of the Hasdo river, on the western border of the 
State, is a small projection from the Sohagpur field occupying only 
22 sq. miles. Coal is known to occur in the Jhagrakhand, Kulharia 
and Neori nalas, but the total area is so small that it seems 
unnecessary to give it a separate name. 
The third patch of Barakars is the Kurasia coalfield, an out- 
lier of some 48 sq. miles in area, and reaching its highest eleva- 
tion at Bartunga Hill (2,917 feet) of which the upper 10—15 
feet consist of dolerite. 
The fourth and last patch of Barakars is the Koreagarh field, 
an outlier 6 sq. miles in area reaching an elevation of 2,985 feet 
at Koreagarh and 2,494 in Dugi Dei, each hill being capped by 
Supra- Barakars. 
The greater portion of my visit was devoted to the Kurasia 
■ " tb • k ■ coalfield, but I also travelled along the 
Dipb m t o ^ara ars. g^^^j^^j-jj. g^gg ^j^g Sanhat field from Murma 
on the east to Ghutra and Balbahara on the west. As far as I 
observed, on the southern edge of the Kurasia field the Bara- 
kar-Talchir boundary is found at an elevation varying from 1,600 
