Petrographic types of coals and structure of the main coal seams of Arkagalinskaya coal-bearing area (north-east of the USSR)

Abstract

Arkagalinskaya coal-bearing area is located within the Magadan region on the interfluve of the Indigirka and Kolyma rivers, 100 km north-west of Susuman settlement. Geological exploration works in this area have been carried out since 1935 up to the present time (V. I. Vronsky, G. V. Buryak, V. I. Baryantsev and others). Coal seams are developed by several mines.