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INDIA (Continued) 



592. KING, W. Index of the local distribution of important minerals, etc., 



in India. 



Rec. Geol. Surv. India, Vol. 22, pt. 4, 1889, Calcutta, p. 254. 



Tin ores are mentioned as coming from Chota Nagpur; Nurgo or Nurunga, where 

 there are grains of tinstone in gneiss; Phira, and at Simratari, where mere traces 

 have been found. 



593. MALLET, F. R. Geological notes on part of Northern Hazaribagh. 



Rec. Geol. Surv. India, Vol. 7, pt. I, 1874, Calcutta, pp. 35-36, 43. 



Cassiterite, is found at Nurgo, a village south of Baraka in grains thickly dis- 

 tributed through a thinly foliated gneiss containing some thin " seams of peg- 

 matite." Also occurs in lepidolite in pegmatite at Pihra, and in granite cutting 

 mica schist at Simratari, west of Pihra. 



Natives smelted tin ore for iron ore and when they saw the white metal, thought 

 they had obtained silver. 



594. . A manual of the geology of India, pt. 4. 



1887, Calcutta, pp. 54-55. 



" Tinstone has been reported from several parts of the peninsula of India, but no- 

 where has it as yet been found in any quantity." 



595. MEDLICOTT, H. B. and BLANFORD, W. T. Tin in India. 



Manual of the Geology of India, Calcutta, 1879, pp. 19, 708. 



Mr. Mallet found tinstone in the gneiss in district of HazaribSgh. Tinstone is 

 found in some abundance in parts of the Tenasserim and in Martaban. 



596. GATES, ROBERT. The copper and tin deposits of Chota-Nagpore, Bengal, 



India- 

 Trans. Fed. Inst. Mg. Eng., Vol. 9, 1895, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and London, pp. 



445-451, pis. 24, 25. 

 Gives geology, account of the working, machinery used and results obtained, at 



Narungo tin-mine, 5 miles north of Baragunda. 



PHILLIPS, J. A., and Louis, H. See No. 1350. 



597. RUDRA, SARAT C. Mineral resources of British India. 



Trans. Amer. Inst. Mg. Eng., Vol. 34, 1904, New York, p. 828. 



" Although no deposit of tin ore has yet been discovered in Peninsular India, stray 

 samples have been found in Bengal, ChoUl-Nagpur, Bombay and Bastar. The only 

 place in British India where this mineral is known to exist in a large quantity is in 

 Lower Burma, at Amherst, Tavoy and Mergui." 



598. STEPHENS, F. J. Geology and mineral resources of Kumaon and Garhval. 



Trans. Inst. Mg. Met., Vol. 10, 190M902 Ix>ndon, pp. 394, 401, 411. 

 Tin is briefly mentioned as occurring in small quantities in India. 



IRELAND 



599. ANONYMOUS. Tin ore and gold In Wicklow, Ireland. 



Amer. Journ. Sci. Arts, ser. 2, Vol. 11, 1851; New Haven, p. 232. 



Gives following analysis of tin ore made by W. Mallet: 



" Peroxyde of tin 95.26 



Peroxyde of iion 2.41 



Silica 0.84 



98.51 " 



FAWNS, SYDNEY. See No. 1320. 



