Coal in organic sedimentary rock consisting of the altered remains of plants (Zim &

Shaffer, 1957; and Bonewitz, 2012). It is a heterogeneous substance with wide

variation in composition composed most of the carbon (C), and it also contains a
hydrogen (H), oxygen (O), sulfur (S) and nitrogen (N), as well as some inorganic
constituents (minerals) and water (Gordon et al., 1983; and Matuszewski et al., 2012).
Coal is one of the worlds most importantly fuel energy resource for electricity
generation (Schnapp & Smith, 2012). It is used for 20% approximately in Thailand and
number is potential much increase in the future (EGAT, 2015). Coal is also has been
used in several commercial and industrials such as cement production, metals
smelting, food industry etc. (Schnapp & Smith, 2012).
To determine the potential economic intent of coal and reduce a cost of
geotech exploration, geophysics has long been applied for coal explorations. Several
application have been carried out acceding to coal mining application and studies
related to the coal such as detailed in evaluating coal seams, defining the structure of
coal basin and seam thickness (Henson & Sexton, 1991), locating fault and
displacement in the coal mine (Gochioco & Cotten, 1989), interpreting any internal
discontinuities in the coal seam for mine planning and hazard evaluation (Gochioco,
1990; Gochioco, 1991; Miller et al., 1992; Gochioco, 1992), delineating coal seams
(Singh et al., 2004; and Rao et al., 2015), bedrock and fault detection, as well as
locating abandoned coal mine to assess subsidence risk (Zhu et al., 2009; and Hsu et
al., 2010).
Geophysical exploration methods are popular due to fast data acquisition and
processing, inexpensive, and giving a broad data (Tselentis & Paraskevopoulos,
2002). The result of geophysical exploration combined with drill-hole information is a
cost-effective method of coal mapping for exploration and exploitation (Daly, 1979).
In this research the electrical resistivity tomography (ERT), induced
polarization (IP) and seismic refraction methods are carried out overlain coal seam is
well exposed along road cut outcrop. The several data measurement in the field
combined with laboratory measurement of core samples to increase accuracy
interpretation.