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MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF INDIA : DESCRIPTIVE. [PaRT IV: 
1. Chandadoh. 
This village is situated at the extreme western end of the Bjilnghat 
district and is separated from the Sitapathur village area in the l^handilra 
district by the ' Miiggurkutta ' N. (' Annapangree Nullah' on the Bhan- 
dara Main Circuit map No. 9). About | mile east of the village, after 
crossing a tributary of the ' Muggurkutta' and entering the Government 
Forest, an ore-band crosses the road leading to Thirori. This band is just 
seen on the west side (right bank) of this tributary, but does not reappear 
at the surface to the west-north-west and so has possibly been cut off 
by the pegmatite cropping out there. On the east side of the watercourse 
the band goes for 310 paces in an E. 35° S. direction, and probably 
continues further in this direction, but I did not follow it up. The ore- 
band consists of very quartzose spessartite-quartz-rock (gondite) mostly 
tinted purple, and containing also the brown fibrous-platy mineral (sup- 
posed to be an amphibole) found at Nandapuri, Nagpur district. There 
is also a little soft black manganese-ore containing remains of yellow gar- 
net. The ore is, however, not sufficiently abundant to be worth working. 
The nala shows gneissic mica-schist cropping out about 100 yards 
further up stream than the ore-band, and above this occurs biotite-gneiss 
dipping at 30" to S. 35° W., which hence may possibly be the dip of 
the ore-band. 
This ore-band may be a continuation of the subsidiary Sitapathur 
band (page 741), but if so there has been a curling round of the strike 
from north-east to E. 35° S. To the east the band must either be 
faulted or else curl round still more so as to run parallel to the Thirori 
bands into which it would otherwise run nearly at right angles. 
Mr. C. E. Low, formerly Deputy Commissioner of this district, informs 
me thxt h has found loose fragments of inanganese-ore at two other 
places in the Chandadoh forest. One of these is about ^ a mile north-east 
of the occurrence described above, and the other 2 miles north-north- 
east of the same spot, close to the northern boundary of the forest. 
2. Thirori, Ponia, and Jamrapani. 
[ With Garaghat (2a). ] 
Central Provinces Prospecting Syndicate, Dutt, Burn & Co., D. Laxmi- 
nabayan and others.) 
Tlie series of parallel bands of manganese-ore traversing these villages 
is held on mining lease by the Central Provinces Prospecting Syndicate, 
except for portions that did not crop out at the surface and have 
been secured by Mr. D. Laxminarayan, and portions of Ponia held by 
Messrs. P .C. Dutt, and Burn and Company. The total length of outcrop 
measured along the curves, is about 6 miles, the longest I have seen 
