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MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF INDIA : DESCEirXlVE. [PaRT IV : 
this is very doubtful. A sample (No. 56) taken from this outcrop 
consisted partly of the hard fine-grained braunite-psilomelane mixture 
and partly of ore composed of psilomelane with porous black patches. 
The analysis made at the Imperial Institute showed : — 
Sample No. 56. 
Manganese peroxide ....... 60-98 
Manganese protoxide . . . . . . .13 02 
Ferric oxide 13 00 
Silica (combined) ........ 2*14 
Silica (free) 0-00 
Phosphoric oxide ........ 0-38 
Moisture at 100° C 0-34 
This is equivalent to : — 
Manganese ......... 49-15 
Iron 910 
Silica 2-14 
Phosphorus ......... 0-17 
Moisture 0-34 
and indicates a content of 21 per cent, braunite, the remainder being 
psilomelane and soft black oxides. 
5. Nandgaon. 
(Rai Sahib Mathdra Peasad.) 
On the road from Sherpur to Nandgaon, at a point about 200 yards 
past NandgHon-tola and ^ mile W. 15° S. of Nandgaon, there is an 
obscure outcrop of spessartite-qu?rtz-rock (gondite) and manganese-ore. 
The strike is N. 20° E., and the length of the outcrop 1 10 paces, of which 
36 are to the north and 74 to the south of the road. A small water- 
course crosses the road 24 paces east of the ore-band. This occurrence is 
of no apparent economic value. 
6. Ramrama. 
(Central Pbovinoes Pkospecting Syndicate, and Tata, Sons & Co.) 
A portion of this deposit is held on mining lease by the Central Prov- 
inces Prospecting Syndicate, whilst another portion of it has been secured 
by Messrs. Burn & Co. and P. C. Dutt, and by them transferred 
to Messrs. Tata, Sons & Co. It is situated about a mile north- 
east of the village. The outcrop is about ^ mile long, the western f 
of this lying in mdlquzdri land and the eastern \ in Government Forest ; 
it forms a low ridge rising at its highest point to perhaps 100 feet above 
the low ground at the base, and shows a change in strike from about 
east at the western end to E. 35° S. at the eastern. In the western half 
