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MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF INDIA : DESCRIPTIVE. [PaET IV : 
On arrival at Gondia the or& has to be transferred by hand to wagons 
on the broad-gauge main line of the Bengal-Nagpur Railway. It is 
then railed to Bombay. Sometimes hopper-wagons witli drop bottoms 
are supplied at the mine siding ; these wagons are run on to an elevated 
pair of rails at Gondia, and the ore is dropped through a shoot into wa- 
gons standing on the broad-gauge line beneath, i 
A fifth incline is to be put in for the lower Bharweli portion of the 
deposit. This will discharge ore near the siding put in by the Bengal- 
Nagpur Railway for the ore brought by Messrs. P. C. Dutt and Burn 
&• Co. from Ukua (now transferred to the Carnegie Steel Co.). 
An interesting feature of the work of this mine is that the ore is not 
usually submitted to analysis before despatch. As soon as the stacked 
ore has been passed it is loaded direct into the mine-trucks. A certain 
quantity of ore is taken from each truck as it passes the manager's 
bungalow. The bulk sample thus obtained does not get analysed 
until some time after the despatch of the ore. 
The number of coolies employed on this mine is very large, some- 
times rising to 2,000, but usually about 1,500. About 1,000 of these 
have been imported, the imported coolies being mostly Kols from the 
Jabalpur area, and to a small extent Hindus from Raipur. The local 
coolies are Hindus. 
Output "^^^ output of ore from this deposit for the years 1901 
to 1907 is shown below : — 
Year. Long tons. 
1901 3,839 
1902 1,614 
1903 7.898 
1904 10,323 
1905 16,246 
1906 78,499 
1907 92,182 
9a. Laugur. 
(Indian Manganese Company.) 
Manganese-ores have been discovered by the Indian Manganese Com- 
pany about If miles south-south-east of Laugur. The ore found there 
is doubtless a south-westerly continuation of the Ukua-Ghondi ore- 
band, which reappears much further to the south-west as the Bal^i- 
ghat deposit. 
1 I understand that owing to the damage done to the rolling .stock hy the falling 
ore, the use of the.se wagons, which were really designed for the grain traffic, has been 
discontinued. 
