67fi MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF INDIA : DESCRIPTIVE. [PaRT IV . 
which is in one place coated with very good pyrolusite. This pyrohisite 
is evidently the result of the replacement at the surface of the limesfcone 
and has extended to a depth of about 2 to 3 inclies only. In one place 
there is conglomerate of pieces of this pyrolusite cemented together bv 
tufa (see Plate 15) (174B2 and 17-587). 
Gwalior State. 
Mr. F. R. Mallet ^ records a specimen of manganite received some 
years ago from the Political Agent at Gwalior and presumably obtained 
from that neighbourhood. Mr. C. A. Racket found psilomelane 
associated with limonite at Gangar north of Niraach 2, while in 1902- 
1903, Mr. K. D. Kulkarni found some impure psilomelane on a hill 
I mile south of Behat, 35 miles east of Gwalior. This would be on 
the Gwalior (Bijawar) series. Also ' Pitter von Schwartz found red 
iron ore from this district to contain 66 per cent, metallic iron ; 
the ore also contained manganese's 
Indore State. 
The only parts of this State in which manganesc-ores are known 
to occur are the country roimd Katkut, lying to the west of the Dhar 
Forest, and near Bhamar in the Nimawar pargana of Indore , they were 
found b}' rne in the field season of 1902-1903. The occurrences are either 
in the Lametas or the porous breccias associated wth the Bijawar rocks, 
for which see the accoimt of the Dhar occurrences. None of these oc- 
currences are of any possible economic value ; and in fact they can hardly 
be dignified with the name of ore. 
The following is a list of the occurrences : — 
1. Near Katkut. 
2. The Kanar River. 
3. Rarel. 
4. Bhamar. 
1. Near Katkut. 
At a point about 3 miles N.E. of Katkut, a small tributary flows 
east to join the Kan^r River, which marks the boundary between Indore 
territory and the Dh^r Forest. The rocks exposed in this ndl^ for about 
1 Geology of India, Pt. IV, Mineralogy, p. 59, (1887). 
2 Ibid., p. 61. 
» Iron, XXVIII, p. 477, (188G) ; and J. I. S. I., No. II of 1886, p. 621. 
