042 
MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF INDIA : DESCBIPTIVE. [PaET IV : 
1. Tawargatti. 
This locality was visited by Mr. J. M. Maclaren in 1904-1905. Accord- 
ing to him the deposits are situated about i mile east of Tawargatti 
Station, Southern Mahratta Railway, along a N. N. E. — S. S. W. ridge 
lying immediately south of the railway line. The railway cutting 
exposes a good section of the rocks, showing the banded hematitic 
quartzites of the Dharwar series resting directly on the fohated granite, 
the dip of the rocks being easterly. As the granite approaches the 
junction it apparently becomes a regularly bedded rock, the explanation 
probably being that the bedded portion represents an original arkose. In 
the cutting the banded limonitic quartzite shows no manganose-ore, but 
merely a manganese staining. From the railway cutting to the S. S. E. 
are a number of old workings probably for road metal. Four or 
five holes had been sunk (probably by Mr. Gow Smith) to a depth of 
10 to 11 feet, but none of them disclosed good ore. 
The specimens brought from this locality by Mr. Maclaren show 
that the manganese-ore, in the form of pyrolusite and psilomelane, 
occurs only as nests and linings to cracks in the quartzite and as partial 
replacements of this rock. The quartzite is a very fine-grained jaspery 
variety interbanded with massive compact liraonite. indistinguishable 
from some of the banded limonite-jaspers of the Jabalpur district. 
The occurrence has no economic value. 
2. Nagargali. 
This locality also was visited by Mr. Maclaren, who says that the 
manganese occurs in nodules of lateritic character ; these have, together 
with their matrix (probably ordinary ferruginous laterite), been used for 
road making. As no development work had been undertaken, the value 
of the deposit could not be ascertained. I do not know the exact position 
of the manganese-ores. 
Dharwar District (Sangli State). 
(S'rr Pluli i:].) 
Amongst the earliest records of the occurrence of manganese-ore 
in India, are those relating to the range of hills, known as the Kappat 
Gudda, in Sangli State. 
A Brahman youth, by name Trimulrow, a pupil of the Rev. Dr. Wilson 
of Bombay, visited these hills in March, 1839, and 
' gave an account of his trip in the Oriental Christian 
Spectator for July, 1839. Trimulrow did not succeed in visiting the local- 
