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witli prices as low as ninepence a unit it might be foiiiul necessary to 
close down the workings. 
I understand from Mr. Boyce that the following may be regarded 
Ominit and lah uir. as the output figures for the Taleviidi deposits : — 
Year. 
Oin))ut in tons. 
Average daily niiiiiber of 
people employed. 
1904-^ 
1905) 
600 
12.") 
1901) 
234 
48 
1907 . 
500 
A road has been constructed by Mr. Boyce from Talevadi to Tinai Ghat 
Railway Station, Southern Maratha Railway, 12 miles distant, with the 
gradient mostly in favour of the load, to facilitate the carting of the ore. 
From tliis station 144 tons of ore were railed to the port of Mormugao 
during 1907, but up till the end of the year no ore was shipped. The 
figures in the third column above are taken from the Annual Reports 
of the Chief Inspector of Mines in India. The labour employed is local. 
An interesting feature of the Talevadi deposits is the occurrence of 
the hydrated aluminium oxide, gibbsito,! in 
Gibbsite. association with manganese-ore. Such an associa- 
tion is, as far as I know, unique in Indian laterites. 
4. Nersa. 
In 1904-05 Mr. Maclaren also visited Nersa about 5 miles in a 
straight line S, W. of Khaniipur Station, Southern Mahratta Railway. A 
few pits, the deepest of which reached only lo feet, had been sunk by 
Mr. C. P. Boyce of Belgaum on a small hill h a mile N. of the village. 
The manganese-ore takes the form of more or less horizontal thin bands 
in a soft decomposed rock from which it can easily be extracted. The 
original character of this rock cannot be stated with certainty, but it 
was probably a purplish micaceous clay-schist of the Dharwar Series. 
Owine to the small amount of work done, Mr. Maclaren was imable to 
form any opinion as to the value of the property or the origin of the ore. 
40 tons of ore were extracted in 190."). 
IL. L. Fermor, Rec. G. S. I., XXXIV. p. 167, (1906). 
