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MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF INDIA : DESCRIPTIVE. [PaRT IV : 
Other Localities. 
The Balaghat llkua ore-band apparently reappears to the east of 
Ukua, for Kishen Singh in his 1888-89 progress 
report says that at Dharampur it was lound. precise- 
ly at its wonted horizon.' This is somewhat difficult to understand : for, 
according to the maps of Bose and Kishen Singh, the W araseoni-Bhimlat 
and Hatta-Kanaridha bands of Chilpis have coalesced about 3 miles 
west of Dharampur ; whilst this village is situated so that the nearest 
area of metamorphics is about 3 miles distant, the " wonted horizon " 
of the ore-band being at the base of the Chilpis. 
Kishen Singh also mentions finding the ore-bed at Kanaridha, but 
.^^ gives no details, nor does he mark the position on 
the map. But as Kanaridha is on the southern edge 
of the Hatta-Kanaridha band of Chilpis, it seems probable that this 
ore was also found at the base of the Chilpis. 
Mr. C. E. Low, former Deputy Commissioner of Balaghat, informs 
me that he has found manganese-ore at Jairasi. 
A reference to the geological map of this area shows 
that this village is situated on the northern edge of the Hatta-Kanaridha 
band of Chilpis near its eastern end. 
Kishen Singh also found scattered blocks of manganese-ore about 
I of the way up the ghat near Kurthitola on the 
^ " road to Baihar. This possibly indicates the presence 
of an ore-bed at or near the north-west edge of the Waraseoni-Bhimlat 
band of Chilpis. 
Pebbles of lateritic ore have been found at this locality by Mr. Low- 
Parsatola (Bora- specimen I was able to examine consisted of 
pahar). red hematite with veins of psilomelane. 
On the road to Dharpiwara (presumably from Balaghat) Kishen 
Singh noticed ' lateritic weathering globules which 
IG. arpiwara. black inside. ' These are no doubt the pisolitic 
spherules of mixed oxides of iron and manganese found at so many 
places in the Nagpur-Balaghat area. 
A solitary piece of quartz partly replaced by pyrolusite and psilome- 
lane was found by Mr. Low at Bodraghat in the 
Bodraghat. ^^^^^ country of the Upper Son valley. 
