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MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF INDIA : DESCRIPTIVE. [ParT IVr 
Jhabua State. 
The first mention of the occurrence of manganese-ore deposits in this 
State is contained in the ' Review of Mineral Pro- 
^ duction in India for 1896 ', page 48 ; it seems that 
the occurrence had been known for some time, the mineral being sup- 
posed to be black oxide of copper ; to coiifirm this a specimen was sent 
by the Political Agent of the Bhopawar Agency to the Reporter on 
Economic Products, when the true nature of the mineral was discovered. 
A prospecting license for this State was obtained by Messrs. Kiddle, 
Reeve & Co. of Bombay in May 1902 ; a mining lease for the 
Kajlidongri deposit, the only one on which any serious work has yet been 
done, was taken out in June 1901-. The first recorded output of ore was 
6,800 tons in 1903 ; the following table shows the figures to date : — 
Year. Long tons. 
1903 ........ 6,800 
1904 11,564 
1905 30,251 
1906 50,073 
1907 35,7^3 
The manganese-ore deposits at present known lie to the W.N.W. 
and N.W. of Meghnagar station, Godhra-Ratlam Railway. This 
area has never been geologically mapped, but a brief visit has sho^vn 
^ J me that the rocks probably belong to the Ara- 
' valli System, being doubtless a southward exten- 
sion of the main outcrop of these rocks in Rajputana. They consist of 
chloritic, talcose, and sericitic, slates, phyllites, and schists, of quart- 
zites of various colours, schistose grits and conglomerates, crystalline 
limestones often dolomitic, and of augen-gneisses, granites and pegma- 
tites, the two last-named being of younger age than the preceding and 
probaWy intruded into them after the folding of the Aravallis. The 
general strike of these rocks near Rambhapur and Kajlidongri is N.N.W., 
and, owmg to the sharp folding of these rocks about axes parallel to the 
strike, the dips may be towards fither tht- east or the west side of the 
line ot strike. One would think from the 1-inch map of this area that 
the country is extremely rugged. This is not the case ; but it is cut 
up by numberless small ravines into a large number of small hillocks and 
mounds partly put vmder cultivation by the Bhils, and partly covered 
by a thin jungle of small trees and bushes, 
