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JIIABUA : KAJLIDONGHI. 
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The folk)wing deposits have been located in this area : — 
I Kiijlidongri 
2. Rambhapur 
3. Amhlinal 
4. Talai 
5. Tuindia 
G Pitol 
7. Nagankheri-Mandli 
and will be dealt with seriatim. Of these deposits, Nos. 1 and 2 were 
examined by me in 1905, and Nos. 3 to 7 by Messrs. H. Walker and 
A. M. Heron in 1907. Of these only Kajlidongri, and possibly 
Ranibhapur, have any considerable economic value, as far as I am 
aware. 
1. Kajlidongpi.i 
(See Plates 18 and 19.) 
This deposit is situated 5 miles to the W.N.W. of Meghnagar 
Mode of occuiicnce Station, Godhra-Ratlam Railway, to which it has 
of the ore. been connected by a 2-foot gauge tramway (con- 
verted later for steam traction), which also passes across the Rambha- 
pur deposit. The ore-deposit is about 1,000 yards long and forms a 
long, low, rounded ridge or mound, which has a general strike of N. 30° 
W., and rises to about 60 or 70 feet above the water-courses on either 
side of it. As is shown in the sketch-plan (Plate 19), this deposit has been 
exploited^ by a series of surface cross-cuts and open quarries, the latter, 
which are mostly not indicated on the plan, lying on either side of the 
central ridge of the ore-mound. In additioii to facilitating the com- 
prehension of the structure of the ore-deposits, these cross-cuts afford 
convenient passages for tram-lines. The sections seen in these cross- 
cuts are shown in Plate 19. The manganese-ore occurs intercalated 
with black and red vitreous quartzites as a ' bed ' about 20 feet thick ; 
but instead of dipping straight to the deep, as seems usually to happen 
in the deposits of the Nagpur-Bakighat area, this ' bed ' ir. kept at the 
surface by a series of folds, so that a larger proportion of the ore than 
usual is available for quarrying. The diagrams on Plate 19 show to a 
large extent what is actually visible in the cros.?-cuts, but there are 
many parts in which the structure of the ore-body is not clear ; this has 
1 The name means ' sooty hill ' . 
2 This description, and the sections and plan given in Plate 19, refer to the deposit 
as it was at the time of my visit in January 1905. 
