ECONOMIC GEOLOGY. I<>3 



Smelting was also occasionally carried on at Mallapur in Kudligi 



taluq, some 6 miles west by south of Kannevi- 

 At Mallapur. . r . 



halli, and had been in earlier times an industry tol- 



lowed in various other villages in that quarter in which it is now extinct. 



A fairly lively iron-smelting industry was being carried on in 1890 



at Shiddagal, a village in Kudligi taluq, 15 

 At Shiddagal. . . 



miles south by east of the old Adargam iron 



mine from which the ore is carried down on pack-bullocks. The ore 



here used was the same as that taken to Kannevihalli, and the 



quality of the blooms apparently as good as those turned out at 



Kamalapur ; but I did not see any articles manufactured from which 



to judge of the quality of the out-put. 



The blooms made here were carried away by traders and worked 

 up elsewere. Much of the iron must, I should think, be used in 

 making sugar-boilers of the Kamalapur type, for much sugarcane 

 is grown in this region under tanks and in the valley of the Chinna 

 Haggari (or Janagahalla), where irrigated from the river. 



Magnetic iron is very sparingly distributed through the Bellary dis- 

 trict. I only came upon three outcrops of it, and all of poor character 

 and not worth working in a neigbDurhood so rich in fine ores. Of 

 these three the first is on Gudadur hill, I2i miles N. E. by N. of 

 Bellary ; the second crosses the high rounds from Bellary to Kudligi, 4 

 miles N. E. of the latter place ; and the third occurs close to Cooryhutty, 

 6 miles S, S. E. of Jaramalla Drug, also in Kudligi taluq. 



In the second case the magnetic iron occurs in a hornblendic 



gneiss which forms a narrow band extending 4 miles to the south-east. 



Underlying the ore bed at the Adargani mine are some ochreous 



argillites of rich red colour and also of yellow 



ashmen?. h * matite in many shades which appear to have been 



worked to some extent for pigments, for which 



purpose they appear to be admirably adapted. 



Along the western base of the Ramandrug section of the Sandur hill 

 group a vast quantity of intensely red earthy haematite lies scattered 

 thickly over the great talus. This also seems to be a very pure mineral,. 



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