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Whether
this field will ever be worked depends very much upon the laying out of
a new line of railway communication. The exhaustion or partial
exhaustion of coal in the Ranigunj area, an event still far distant,
may lead to special arrangements for working it.
VII. Bokaro.*
The
Bokaro field is situated in the valley of the Damuda, commencing at a
point two miles west of the termination of the Jeriah field. Its area
is about 220 square miles.
The groups represented in this field are precisely identical with those of the Ranigunj field, namely :—
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Some
of the coal seams are of large size, one, of eighty-eight feet, having
been measured. The quality is generally inferior. Still there is no
doubt that the field contains a vast store of valuable fuel. The
estimated available coal is 1,500,000,000 tons. Except by outcrop
workings nothing has been done to develop the resources of this field.
Owing to its position it is not likely, unless by the establishment of
some local industry, that it will ever become available for useful
purposes.
* Hughes, "Mem. Geol. Survey of India," vol. vi. "Manual," p. 187.
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