CHAPTER XXXII. 
DESCRIPTION OF mmSlTS-continued. 
The Central Provinces -Amraoti and Balaghat Dis- 
tricts. 
Amrdoti District — ' p^'epul Cottah.' 
Bdldghdt District. — History — Output and labour — Physical characters and geo- 
logy — List of deposits — Nature and quality of the ores— Communications and 
transport — Cbandadoli — Thirori, Ponij, and Janirapani — Garaghat — Sonegaon 
• — Arjoniand Jam — Nandgaon — Ramrama — Katangjheri I — Katangjheri II (Sho- 
dan H'urki) — Other localities — Balaghat — Laugur — Ghondi — Ukua, Gudma, and 
fSamnapur — Other localities. 
Amraoti District. 
The occurrence of manganese- ore in Berar was first mentioned by 
Newbold/ and the reference may have been either to this district or 
to the Wun, or perhaps to some district in which the existence to this 
mineral is not at present known. 
Some specimens of manganese-ore containing 80 per cent, of manga- 
nese oxide were discovered in 1877 at 'Peepul Cottah' or 'Pimpul Koon- 
ta' village in the Morsi Taluk ; but local enquiry showed 'that the broken 
fragments of ore which had been found at a short distance below the 
surface inside the village had been brought from some unknown locality 
by the former inhabitants.'^ 
Balaghat District. 
lSe.e Plates 12, 13, 20, 21, and 43.) 
Mr. Grant^ says that 'a few miles to the east of Burha, surmji (sul- 
phide of antimony) occurs in large quantities. The 
latter is, however, of no value here, and no one takes 
the trouble to collect it.' Surma is the Hindustani word for colly- 
rium and it is probable that black oxides of manganese are at times sub- 
stituted by the natives of India for stibnite, the substance customarily 
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1 Jour. Roy. As. Soc, VII, p. 214, (1P43). 
2 Ball, Economic Geo'ogy, p. 331, (1881). 
3 Central Provinces Gazetteer, p. 18, (1870). 
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