In the Godavery valley, there are coal-fields at Bandar, in the Chanda district at Wardha ; and Mr. Hughes gives the following estimate :— Actual Quantity. Amount available. Tons, in millions. Tons, in millions. Warora basin, . . . 20 14 Ghugus, . . . . 90 — 45 Wun , 2100 1500 Between Wun and Papur, 105 5o Between Junara and Chachole, . . 150 75 Sasti and Paoni basins, . 60 30 And there are small areas at Dumagudium and tulavaram.
At Kamaram, 40 milm N.E. of Warangal, is a small field ; also at Singareni, 30 miles S.E. of Kamaram.
In the Darjiling district in Sikkim is a crushed coal, not of promising character ; ono seam is 11 feet thick.
In Assam, coal - fields have been explored at Makum, Jaipur, Janji, Naeira, and Desai. Tho coal is of good quality ; audit has been discovered in the Khassya hills.
Tito coal of Dundeli, in the Jummoo territory, has proved to bo liko the rest of Eocene origin among nummulitic limestones. A largo lump of it was in the Lahore Museum, and might pass for Wallsend,' so good is its appearance.
Coal at Bunn; from the Waziri hills, has been mentioned with sonic hope.
Coal of good quality is obtained from the Koh i-Meeriah, a hill a day's journey north of the Oxus.—Wood.
The coal-fields of China occupy 400,000 sq. miles, and of Australia 240,000 sq. miles.
Messrs. Medlicott and Blandford describe as follows the coal-fields of British India, according to the epochs at which they were deposited :— Jubbulpur has jet coal.
Eajmahal bills, Hum, Chuparbhita, and Brahmani coal-fields have occasional beds of inferior coal, poor and shaly, though of considerable thicimess.
Tangsuli, carbonaceous shales of no economic value. Kandit Karaya field, thin 14-inch seams of coaL Jainti or Karaun field, some thin coal-seams. Karharbari, coal seams of variable thickness ; coal equal to the best Raniganj coal ; is the main supply for the E. I. Railway.
Raniganj coal-field, rich in coal-seams, some 20 feet thick. Jhariah coal-field. 13 to 16 miles from Raniganj, large quantity of very fair coal. Bokara, 2 miles *W. of Jhariah. Raniganj coal is composed of layers alter nately bright and dull, as in the Barakars. The Bokara coal-field is near Hazaribagh. Ramgarh coal-field, 36 miles S. of Bokara. The S. Karanpura fields, W. of
Bokara and Ramghar. Karanpura field is second only to the Raniganj field.
Chope, a small coal-field on the top of the Haxara plateau.
Itkuri 25 miles N.W. of Ilazaribagh ; in ferior coal.
Daltonganj or Palemow coal-field ; coal formerly worked and sent down the Sone.
Latiabar, 26 milea S.E. of Daltonganj ; littlo coal.
S. Rewa coal-field.
Jhilmilli field, a very thin seam of good carbonaceous coal ; several seams.
Ilisrampur field, coal seams in several places, not very promising, 5 or 6 feet thick.
Lakhanpur field has several seams of coal, tbe best 56 feet thick ; part of excellent quality.
Cbutia Nagpur, at E. Sirguja, Palemow, Jashpur, Udaipur, Khurea.
Korba (Bilaspur), an immense seam of coal, and in many places on the Aland tind near Udaipur.
Raigarh-Hingir field, formerly called the Gangpur field, shaly beds, with coal-setuns.
Talchir coal-field, on the Brahmani river, some beds of inferior coal.
Lametagh at.
Satpura basin ; useful coal in tho upper Tawa, the Kanhan and Pench valleys, ha thin seams, and at Mopani on the Sita.
Bandar coal-field, 30 miles N.W. of Wardha, in the Cluinda district, has threo setting of coal, with 38 feet of maximum thickness.
Wardhn or Chanda coal-field, in the basin of the Wardha, Pranhita, and Godavery ; has a seain of coal and shale between 30 and 50 feet thick, but rising up to 90 feet, with thinner minis, from which efforts hatro been made to supply the I,.. I. P. Railway.
Godavery valley hart the Msdaversin coal-field below Bliadraohelam, also the Bedda-dartol field, 35 miles N.E. of Ithadrachelam, and N. of Ellore ; some poor coal has been discovered by boring.
Kamaram coal-field, 90 miles II. from Warangal, has beds of coal, with coal of fair quality, in seam G to feet thick.
Singarcni coal-field, 25 miles N. of Khatnamet, in the Godavery valley, has scam, of coal, one of them 21 feet thick.
Ranikot group, in the Laki range, in Sind, has a bed of coal nearly 6 feet thick, but poor, with pyrite. liable to spontaneous combustion, in cretaceous rock.
The Salt Range, amongst jurasoic rock', has thin strings and seams of tertiary lignite at Bhaganwala, Pid, and Samundri.