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Identifier: transactionsmining31amer (find matches)
Title: Transactions
Year: 1871 (1870s)
Authors: American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers
Subjects: Mineral industries
Publisher: New York (etc.)
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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coveredwith loess and alluvial as far as Ma-chiakou, where the coal-beds may be traced again 3 or 4 miles further STE. Thencethe fold strikes E. for about 5 miles (Line C-D, in Fig. 2,crosses the middle of this course); then SE. for about 2 miles;and then eastward again. About a mile east of Lin-hsi therock-strata closely associated with the coal-beds are again cov-ered by alluvial deposits; but the further continuation of thesynclinal fold is clearly shown by the line of limestone hillsformed by the upturned edge of the limestone formation whichclosely underlies the coal-bearing beds. The hills around Lei-Chuang beautifully show the end of the fold by the spoon-shaped structure of the limestone (see sections on G-H andI-J, Fig. 2). It is probable that coal exists for a large part,if not all, of the distance between Lin-hsi and Lei-Chuang.A part of the coal-beds along this end of the syncline may Transactions of the American Institute of Mining Engineers.—Vol. XXXI. DRAKE.—Fig. 2.
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- — THE CO \l.-I I ELDS I NOR l III \- I KRN CHIN \. --too have been eroded away before the depositionof the Loess and alluvia) deposits; but it ishardly possible that the erosion reached deepenough to carry away the whole of the series. The coal-mines at Lin-hsi are «>n the S. Bideof the fold and wvav the outcrop of the coal-beds. West of Lin-hsi, the alluvial depositsagain cover the older rocks so thai the furtherextension to the westward on this Bide of theByncline is only conjectural. For a mile ormore on either Bide of the section on C—D,Fig. 2, the strata are slightly overthrown, bothat they dip N. Coal-mining by foreign methods was begunin this district in 1878. Tone King-sing,managing director and originator of tin* ChinaMerchants1 Steam Navigation Company, or-ganized, with the aid of Li Hung-chang. aChinese company, to mine coal in the Kai-ping coal-field. Mr. R. E. Burnett was ap-pointed chief engineer. Prospecting, bymeans of bore-holes, was done in 1878: anda shaft

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