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HOLLAND: MICA DEPOSITS OF INDIA. 



mass very similar in many respects to Peninsular India, and it is hardly 

 likely that such an area is devoid of mica-bearing pegmatites. 1 



The known mica-bearing areas are described in the following 

 order: — 



Bengal Presidency. — 



Gaya, Hazaribagh and 

 Monghyr districts. 



Sikkim-Tibet. 

 Bombay Presidency. — 



Chhota Udepur. 



Narukot. 

 Burma. 

 Central India.— 



Rewah. 

 Central Provinces. — 



Balaghat. 



Bastar. 



Bilaspur. 

 COORG. 

 Madras Presidency. — 



Ganjam. 



Madras Presidency — contd. 



Nilgiris. 



Salem. 



Trichinopoli. 



Vizagapatdm. 



Travancore. 

 Mysore. 

 Punjab. — 



Bhabeh. 



Gurgaon. 



Kangra. 

 Rajputana. — 



Ajmere-Merwara. 



Jaipur. 



Kishengarh. 



Sirohi. 



Tonk. 



Nellore. 



BENGAL. 



Gaya, Hazaribagh and Monghyr. 



It is to the material obtained from the very productive belt which 



stretches obliquely across the junctions of Gaya, Hazaribagh and 



Monghyr that India owes its earliest reputation for mica. Portions of 



the deposits of this area have been described by Dr. P. Breton (1826), 



Dr. J. McClelland (1849), Capt. W. S. Sherwill (1851), Mr. F. R. 



Mallet (1874) and Mr. A. Mervyn Smith (1898). The writer has 



recently, with the assistance of Mr. H. H. Hayden and Lala Kishen 



Singh, made a re- examination of the whole belt, and takes this 



1 Since the above was written the Acting Vice-Consul at Dar-es-Salem has 

 reported the discovery of good mica on the Uluguru and Ungun hills in German 

 East Africa. (Diplomatic and Consular Reports No, 2568, 1901, p. 23.) 



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