THE 
MANGANESE-ORE DIlPOSITS OF INDIA. 
PART IV. 
DESCRIPTION OF DEPOSITS. 
CHAPTER XXIX. 
Andaman Islands, Baluchistan and Bengal. 
Andaman Islands — Balvchisidn. 
Bengal — Burdwan — Gangpur — Hazaril agl', — Kalahanrli — Manbhum — Monghyr — 
Morbhanj^Puri — Singhbhum — Tvventy-four Pargaiias. 
Andaman Islands. 
Mr. G. H. Tipper of the Geological Survey of India has foimd oxide 
of manganese — probably pyrolusite — in nests in a brownish quartzite of 
pre-Tertiary age. The locality is west of the Balmi creek, Stewart 
Sound, North Andaman Island. The occurrence is of no possible econo- 
mic value. 
Baluchistan. 
A piece of manganese-ore was foimd by Mr. G. H. Tipper near the old 
lead workings of Shekhran, 27°53'— 66°28'," 14 miles north-west of Khozdar 
in Jhalawan. The specimen is mammillatcd concretionary psilomclane, 
with calcite deposited in the cavities and to a certain extent incrusting 
the psilomelane. It seems probable that this ore formed part of the gan- 
gue of the lead-ores, which occur in veins traversing hard blue Upper 
Liassic limestones. 
During 1907 work was started at a locality situated at the foot of 
the Pab Hills in Las Bela State, Kelat Agency, some 70 miles from 
Karachi, by the Pabb Syndicate, Karachi, of which Messrs. Beaumont 
& Co. are agents. Fifteen tons of ore is the output for that year. 
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