GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION. 6g 



division, was exhibited at the Lahore Exhibition of 1864 j 1 and 

 Mr. F. C. Channing states that it is occasionally extracted near the 

 latter locality. 8 



Bhabeh. 



Plates of muscovite, 5 to 6 inches in diameter and 1 to 2 inches 

 thick, of a brown colour, rarely silvery-white, were obtained by 

 Mr. F. R. Mallet from granite veins near the Wangtu bridge on the 

 Sutlej river. 3 Large plates of the mineral were sent to the Lahore 

 Exhibition of 1864. 4 



Kulu. 



The contemporaneous veins in the gneissose granite and the pegma- 

 titic veins traversing the associated schists in the Kulil subdivision of 

 the Kingra district are occasionally sufficiently coarse in grain to con- 

 tain mica-crystals of marketable size ; but the granitic formation, 

 during or since its consolidation, has been deformed by earth-move- 

 ments, and the mica- crystals have consequently been damaged. I 

 have, however, seen plates from the Upper Chandra valley sufficiently 

 free of flaws to give good plates five inches square. Quantities of 

 small and damaged muscovite are raised in the granitised area around 

 the Hamta pass ; but the material is used only as a non-conducting 

 material for roofs and snow-cellars. Small plates of excellent mus- 

 covite occur in the upper reaches of the Parbatti valley ; but for the 

 reason that this area has been, in common with the rest of the Hima- 

 layas, folded in late Tertiary times, these localities are not likely to 

 become profitable sources of mica. In any vein coarse enough to give 

 large crystals, the proportion of waste material will always be excessive, 

 and the area is, moreover, far from any market, being some 150 miles 

 from the nearest station on the North Western Railway. Tourmaline 

 and garnets are common accessories in the pegmatitic veins of Kulii 



1 Punjab Products, Vol. I, p. 42. 



2 Settlement Report, Gurgaon District, 1882, p. 14. 



3 Mem. Geol. Surv. Ind., Vol. V, 1 864, p. 169. 



* Baden Powell, Punjab Products, Vol. I, 1868, p. 42. 



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