The first investigations of the coal formation on the is land of pulau Laut Were carried out by mining-engineer C.DE GROOT, on account of a report published in 1850 by the architect of the engineers corps W. IHNE. Since he only visited the coal occurrences on the northern part of the island, D.E.GROOT was of the opinion that coal deposits occur only…
By decree of the Director of public Works of February 18, 1918 No. 645/Dir. The present Writer Was instructed to carry out the Borneo, that after his arrival at Kota Baroe, started in April 1918 At the end of June 1919 the activities were suspended for the time being.
the ombilin coal depostits in the padang highlands (minang kabau) situated near sawahlunto and connected by a 160 km rackrail with padang on the west coast of central sumatra were doscovered in 1868 by de greve and later mapped out by verbeek in 1875
Coal has never been mined in Celebes. The only known deposits of some importance are situated in SW Celebes, NE of Mecassar. These coal-containing districts have been explored by the Government in 1913 and 1914.
Sesuai dengan tugas pokok dan fungsinya dalam menyiapkan informasi sumberdaya Kelompok program penelitian Energi Fosil melaksanakan inventarisasi batubara daerah marginal pada cekungan Bula yang di indikasikan mempunyai formasi pembawa batubara, sedangkan tujuannya adalah untuk mengetahui keberadaan batubara pada formasi Fuva.