REPORT CONCERNING THE MANGANESE DEPOSIT IN GODINESD 
by CHARLES de Papp. 
On the east of the village of Zám, which lies by the river Maros, on 
the boundary of the villages of Tomasesd, Godinesd and Petresd, there are 
important manganese and iron deposits, where prospecting has already been 
done, on a smaller scale. 
At the time of the independence war, there existed at Zám some small 
mines which gave an excellent iron ore rich in manganese. But later on, they 
abandoned those mines and only now are people turning their attention 
towards them again. But guestions as to concessions which were not yet 
regulated, prevented regular working and only last year, in the summer, 
could Messrs. LEopPorD PERL and ÁLBERT KRONEMER acguire an extensive field. 
This field lies at the boudaries of Godinésd, about a mile east of the railway- 
station Zám, but it extends also into the territory of Petresd. 
This field comprises two parts: 
first: 345 hectares of land on which Messrs. PERL and KRONEMER have 
the exclusive right to prospect ; 
secondly : 213 hectares of total ownership (elaims). 
The right of prospecting, given first to Messrs. Somopr and REMENYIE, 
has been annuled by the tribunal of Marosillye the 12"of August 1910, by 
decree No. 3971. 
The development of the mine is thus not hindered by anybody. 
I. Geological conditions. 
I have discussed in: detail the geological structure of the mentioned 
territory in my report which appeared in the Annual of the Geological Insti- 
tute of Hungary in 1902, under the title eDie geologisehen Verhültnisse der 
Umgebung von Zámo. 
Among the various rocks which are found there, the most prominent 
are melaphyre, augitical porphyrite, and their tuffs. The eruptive rocks of 
ancient times form rounded and bald mountains. In the valleys, one finds 
everywhere outecrops of brown iron-stone and manganese. Leaving aside the 
later eruptive rocks, I mention only that on these mountains of melaphyre 
there occurs limestone which, just as the melaphyre, is crossed by pykrit and 
porphyrite. The later eruptions and the eruptions of andesite and basalt have 
caused the mineral riches of this region. Some reports have already been 
