Table to show by provinces the number of mines under the Mines “Act and their average daily working strength in 1998.

Coal.

Manganese ore.

Mica

Other Mines.

All Mines.

Numbers employcd.


Numbers cmployod.


Province.

Numbers employ.
ed.

Numbers employed


Numbers employod


linea

Vines.

Under-YrONTIO.


Vines.

Under.
ground.

Mines,

Tatal

Underground.
 |

Mines.

Total.

Total.

Underoround.


Total.

Under. |
round.

Total.

Madras .. .
Bombay .. ..
Bengal .. rr
Jnited Proviaces ..
Punjab .. ..
Bihar and Orissa ..
Central Provinces . .
Assam ., ..
Minor Administrations.

3ritish India exctud.
ing Burma,
Burma .. .. | ..
British India .. 548 | 96.902" 1esens

(4,303

8
11
x
94

‘35
260
916

1,516
3.680

77 |
397 |
“ou

1.868

4.176

19
27
8
51
29
124
39

13 |
“301 |
1,132
291
38
104

1,786
5,068
874
5,330
4,875
16,523
5.995

8.002

104
38
216
51
45
306
162
‘
bv

1,981
35
20,497
301
1,521
7,874
6,330
2,159
413
110.111

7,478
8,748
15,177
5,330
5,618
138,856
34,025
4,128
912
250,272

743
08,616
7,656
4,128
219

1,673
20.374

12.044

190

gar

125

as

oar

1.211

27 49

498

9.999

16.555

332

1.999

40.816

1.503

1251 1911 | 97 04a

6.834 19,420 229
16,555 | 5611 88331 60.945 | 1.732

298 | “o.009

6.834
116.945 |

19,429
9269 701

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