Suliman range, thin layers of coal of no econornio value.
Sabathu, in the Lower Himalaya, carbonaceoua shale, has 25 per cent. of fixed carbon, and 11 per cent. of volatile matter partly hydro-carbon.
Khassya hills area, Cherrapunji plateau, amongst cretaceous rocks is thick Beam of bright coal, found in little basins near Cherra.
Garo area, cretaceous series, has coal of serviceable quality and thickness, immediately 1V. of Jadu Kato, in Umblai, in the Hublang, Garo hills, and in the coal basins of Rongreng and Darting, on the Upper Stimesari, of valueless coal; also at Salkura, Champagiri, and Mirampura, S.E. of Singmari.
Aasam coal-fields are in the form of basins in tho low Tipan hills, alternating shales, aandstones, and coals, knovrn as the coal-fields of Jaipur,Makrum, and Nazira. There is a seam 100 feet thick, containing at least 75 feet of solid coal, a true coal of superior quality.
Tenasserim, on the Len-Ya river, is a bed of coal of a laminar structure, containing amber-like mineral resin. The coal is in thin laminas in isolated basins Tha thay-kyoung and Heindap, on the Great Tenasserim river, at places 7 feet thick of workable seam, and of fair quality, and 8 feet thick at Kau-ma-pying. It is also found 3 feet thick on the Little Tenasserim river.
British Burma, 5 mike S. of Thayat-myo, a bed of coal of so irregular thickness as to be of no value.
Independent Burma, 50 miles above Am, near Thin ga-dau, are coal-seams 3 to 5 feet thick.
The Raniganj or Bardwan coal-field lies in the valley of the Damuda river, and is about 500 eq. miles. Some of the coal-seams are 20 feet thick, and one of the seams of the Barakar group is 33 to 35 feet; and in a section seen in the Kudia and Pasai streams, 175 feet of coal is exposed in a total thickness of 833 feet of rock, though much of it is of inferior quality. The Jeriah (Jhariah) coal-field has seams up to GO feet in thickness.
The coal found in the Talchir group, in the Jhiltnilli field in Sirguja, is a very thin seam of inferior quality ; and, as a rule, the Talchir forma tion is marked by an absence of coal-searns, and even of carbonaceous shale. Part of the Karhar
bari beds rest in apparent conformity on the Talchir group. Karbarbari coal is dull-coloured, and tolerably homogeneous in structure, and the coal of some of the seams in the Barakar and Raniganj sulxlivisions of the Damuda series is more distinctly laminated, but is equal in quality to that extracted at Karharbari.
Carbonaceous shales, and one or two thin bands of jet coal, are met with in the Jubbulpur group, but it is very different from tho coal of tho Damuda valley.
The principal coal tracts of the rocks in the Rajmahal hills are the coal-fields of Ilura, Chupar bInta, and &Amalfi. Their SC:1111S are thick, but the coals are poor and shaly.
In the Gondwana series, Tangsuli and the Kandit Karaya field, and the Sahajori field, have small seams of coal of no economic value.
The general characters of the S. Rewa, the J hariah coal seatns, the Bokara coal-field, and the Karanpura field, are the satne as those of Rani ganj. The quality of the coal is very variable ; some seams yield good coal, others little better than shale.
The Ramgarh coal-field lies due S. of Bokara ; the coal seams are numerous, and there are some good beds, but the quality as a rule is inferior.
The Chope, Itkuri, and Daltonganj coal-fields are in the Hazaribagh district, and the coal of Daltonganj was formerly mined, and sent down the Sone river.
Good coal has been found in a few places in the Bisrampur field, and at Lakhanpur, but that of many of their seams is poor, and the seams only or 6 feet thick.
Coal occurs in Chutia Nagpur in many places on the Mand and near Udepur, of fair thickness and average quality • and a seam 90 feet thick is exposed in the bed cif the Hasdo, much of it very shaly, and yielding much ash.
The Talchir coal-field is near the Brahmani river, and within the .Malanadi watershed.
In the Peninsula, the coal of the Wardha field is of rather inferior quality, giving 14 to 20 per cent. of ash. The Warora coal is of high mineral value. There may also be mentioned the Mada vararn coal-field ou the Godavery, and those of Kamaram and Singareui.