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  bose: 
  geology 
  of 
  the 
  lower 
  nakbada 
  valley. 
  

  

  CHAPTER 
  X. 
  

  

  ECONOMIC 
  GEOLOGY. 
  

  

  Iron. 
  — 
  Iron 
  smelting 
  has 
  been 
  the 
  chief 
  industry 
  of 
  the 
  area 
  under 
  

   description. 
  Heaps 
  of 
  slags 
  are 
  to 
  be 
  seen 
  at 
  most 
  of 
  the 
  villages 
  from 
  

   near 
  Handia 
  to 
  Barwai, 
  and 
  lower 
  down 
  the 
  valley 
  from 
  Bag 
  to 
  beyond 
  

   Kawant. 
  The 
  Dhar 
  forest 
  (Nimanpur 
  district) 
  and 
  the 
  Katkut 
  jungles, 
  

   now 
  all 
  but 
  depopulated, 
  must 
  at 
  one 
  time 
  have 
  carried 
  on 
  a 
  brisk 
  trade 
  

   in 
  iron. 
  The 
  furnaces 
  near 
  Chandgarh 
  were 
  given 
  up 
  only 
  a 
  few 
  years 
  

   ago, 
  when 
  the 
  neighbouring 
  forest 
  came 
  under 
  the 
  management 
  of 
  the 
  

   Forest 
  Department, 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  whole 
  area 
  the 
  industry 
  is 
  kept 
  up 
  at 
  

   present 
  — 
  and 
  that, 
  too, 
  very 
  feebly 
  — 
  only 
  in 
  the 
  thickly- 
  wooded 
  country 
  

   south 
  of 
  Satwas 
  belonging 
  to 
  His 
  Highness 
  the 
  Maharaja 
  Holkar. 
  

   An 
  attempt 
  was 
  made 
  by 
  the 
  British 
  Government 
  more 
  than 
  twenty 
  

   years 
  ago 
  to 
  revive 
  the 
  industry 
  on 
  a 
  large 
  scale 
  at 
  Barwai, 
  now 
  within 
  

   easy 
  access 
  by 
  rail 
  from 
  Khandwa 
  on 
  the 
  Great 
  Indian 
  Peninsula 
  Rail- 
  

   way. 
  But 
  when 
  the 
  necessary 
  preliminary 
  arrangements 
  had 
  been 
  com- 
  

   pleted 
  under 
  the 
  superintendence 
  of 
  Mr. 
  Mitander, 
  an 
  able 
  Swedish 
  

   metallurgist, 
  the 
  Government 
  thought 
  it 
  advisable 
  to 
  have 
  no 
  further 
  

   connection 
  with 
  the 
  manufacture, 
  and 
  offered 
  it 
  for 
  sale. 
  1 
  It 
  was 
  

   bought 
  up 
  by 
  Holkar, 
  but 
  has 
  never 
  been 
  worked; 
  nor 
  does 
  there 
  seem 
  

   to 
  be 
  any 
  prospect 
  of 
  its 
  ever 
  being 
  worked. 
  

  

  The 
  ore 
  which 
  is 
  almost 
  invariably 
  hsematite 
  occurs 
  at 
  the 
  following 
  

   places 
  :— 
  

  

  I. 
  Hoshangabad 
  district 
  west 
  of 
  Handia, 
  and 
  north-west 
  of 
  Harda 
  

   (Map 
  No. 
  1)— 
  

  

  (a) 
  Kajberi 
  (Kujberie) 
  (lat. 
  22° 
  22', 
  long. 
  76° 
  59'). 
  The 
  ore 
  

   is 
  in 
  the 
  Bijawar 
  breccia, 
  close 
  to 
  the 
  boundary 
  line 
  

  

  1 
  See 
  "Manual," 
  Vol. 
  Ill, 
  pp. 
  397, 
  398. 
  

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