CHAPTER XXX 
DESCRIPTION OF DKPimTi^ -continued. 
Bombay Presidency. 
Kcly umi -Rijapur — Dharwar — Dharwar (.San^li) — Narukot — l'alan])iir — I'aneh 
.Mahals; — Hiljj)ii)la — Ratnagirl — Satara. 
Belgaum District. 
Manganese-ores have been found in this (hstrict in rocks of both tlie 
Kaladgi and Dharwar Series. The known occurrences are as follows : — 
1. Munnikerri, in Kaladgi rocks. 
2. Bhinigad 
3. Talevadi >• in Dharwar rocks, 
4. Nersa ) 
of which Nos. 3 and 4 are of possible economic value. 
In the Return of Mineral Production for 1891, page 5, manganese-ore 
is reported to occur in the trap rock (probably the Deccan Trap) of this 
district, but no authority for this statement or details of the occurrence 
are given. 
1. Munnikerri. 
Lieutenant (afterwards Captain) T. J. Newbold^ says, in 1840, 
that he found manganese-ore ' in the sandstone of the Southern Mahratta 
Country ' between Kaladgi and the falls of the Ghatprabha river near 
Gokak. He later^ specifies the locality as Munnikerri about 26 miles 
W. by a little S. of Kaladgi, where ' close to a small pagoda, the sand- 
stone at the S. W. flank of the ridge near the edge of the overlying 
trap is penetrated with a vein of black manganese, associated with 
iron, about three inches broad. '3 The 'sandstones' are quartzites 
belonging to the Lower Kaladgi Series and the ' trap ' is the Deccan 
Trap. 
1 Mad. Journ. Lit. Scl, XI, pp. 45, 245, (1840). 
^ Journ. As. Soc Beng., XIV, p. 275, (1845); reprinted in 'Western India,' 
p. 352, (1857). 
3 Loc. cil., p. 276. 
