1864.] 



The Mines of Khetree in Rujpootana, 



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List of Specimens forwarded. 



1st.- — First class glance ores and copper pyrites, 



2nd.-— Ditto glance ores, sometimes pounded and sold as Soorma 

 (antimony) for the eyes. 



3rd. — Average copper ores, usually smelted. 



Ath. — Specimen of strata in which the copper ores occur. 



6th. — Average copper ores freed from rock, before pounding by the 

 "ghuiL" 



6th.— Ore mixed with cow-dung and roasted, as put into the 

 smelting furnace. 



i-ffo — -Slag picked up from mounds, (evidently still containing 

 copper), 



8th.— Alum shale with sulphate of copper ; (average specimen), 



9th. — Sulphate of copper after first boiling, 



10th. — Sulphate of copper (purified), 



11th. — Alum after first boiling, 



12th.— Ditto, (purified). 



13th. — -Sulphate of iron found in combination with the other sul- 

 phates. 



14$. — Impure residue of alum, sulphate of copper, and nitrate of 

 potash. 



15th. — Ores, of which the miners desire an analysis, 



IQth. — Fossil wood encrusted with copper ore as dug out of the 

 copper mines. 



17$. — Cobalt ore, called by natives " Sheta," as found in the mines 

 mixed with copper pyrites. 



18th. — -Ditto, ditto pounded. 



In the box in which the above have been sent, are specimens of 

 other ores, having, however, no connection with Khetree or its copper 

 mines, viz. 



19th. — Zinc, ores from zinc mines at Jawur near Oodepoor in Mey- 

 war; not now worked. The .specimens were struck off the rock in an 

 old working. 



20th. — Specimens of crude yellow ochre from near the same 

 place. 



21st. — Choice and beautiful specimens of carbonates and sulphates 

 of lead from the lead mines at Ajmere. 

 22nd, — Antimony from the same mines, 



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