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i am informed by Mr. Hance of tho Indian Manganese Company 
tliat from tlio outcro]) it was expected that the ore-band would be found 
to be U) feet thick. As the result of cross trenches at intervals of 200 
yards over 2,000 yards of length however, the width was found to be never 
greater than (5 feet and to average 4 feet, with a minimum of 2i feet. 
At least half of this thickness is waste, due to the intercalation of rocks, 
not manganese- ore 
1,934 tons of ore were quarried during 1907, but none was sent to 
the railway. 
10. Ghondi. 
(P. C. DuTT, Burn & Co.) 
Manganese-ore was found at this locality by Lala Kishen Singh 
of the Geological Survey of India in the field season of 1888-89. This 
occurrence is on the same horizon as the manganese-ore deposit of Bala- 
ghat, namely that mapped by Bose and Kishen Singh as near the junc- 
tion between the Chilpis and the metamorphic series. Kishen Singh 
gives no details of this occurrence except that the dips are generally 
towards the north-west, and that the ore-band can be traced to a "-ood 
distance in both directions (north-east to south-east). I did not visit 
this locality myself and so can give no details of the quality or quantity 
of the ores. 
11. Ukua, Gudraa and Samnapur. 
(Carnegie Steel Company.) 
(See Plate 12.) 
Ukua is situated about 18 miles to the north-east of the Balaghat 
deposit, and the fact that a band of manganese-ore occurs at the junc- 
tion between the ' Chilpis ' and ' ruetamcrphics ' at the sam.e horizon 
as at Balaghat seems to have been first noticed by P. N. Bose in the 
field season of 1888-89. The deposit was first held on prospecting 
license by the Central Provinces Prospecting Syndicate and allowed by 
them to lapse at the end of the year. Then in 1904 a prospecting license 
for the same deposit was obtained by Messrs. Burn & Co. and Mr. P. C. 
Dutt of Jabalpur, who, after despatching a certain amoMnt of ore in 1906, 
sold the deposit to the Carnegie Steel Company. 
The length of this ore-band, as exposed at the surface, is 3 miles ; 
Length and situa- the strike averages E. 25° N., but is very variable, 
tion of the ore-band. At its south-west end it disappears under allu- 
vium at a point about h mile south of Gudma village and { mile north- 
