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MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF INDIA : DESCRIPTIVE. [PaRT IV : 
These analyses indicate, moreover, that the average amount of braunite 
in the ores is 35% as against 50% in the Nagpur district, the 
balance in both cases being of course psilomelane. 
Nearly all the manganese-ore deposits of this district are situated 
Communiciitions at considerable distances from the Bengal-Niigpur 
and transport. Railway. The nearest to the railway is Pachara, 
some 8 or 9 miles from Tumsar Road. Asalpani is 15 miles from Tumsar 
Road, and all the others are 18 miles or more distant. There is a road that 
was once a good one leading from Katangi at the western end of the Rala- 
ghat district right through the heart of the Bhandara manganese area to 
Tumsar Road. Consequently this has been made use of for the carting of 
the ore to the rail, much to the detriment of the road. The Central India 
Mining Company has constructed a 2-foot gauge tramway from Tumsar 
Road to Dongri, a distance of 20 miles. After this the track crosses the 
Bhawanthari river on a temporary causeway, and soon after branches. 
One branch goes via Sukli to Kosumbah (33 miles from Tumsar Road) and 
the other vid Hatora to Miragpur (29 miles from Tumsar Road). This tram- 
way was first worked by hand trollying, but it has been since converted 
for steam traction. The Bengal-Nagpur Railway Company has made a 
survey for a feeder line from 'J'umsar Road to Katangi, which would pass 
over verv much the same ground as the Central India Mining Company's 
tramway. But work has not yet been begun on the Bengal-Nagpur 
Railway line. The tramway is used for the conveyance of the ore, not 
.only of the Central India Mining Company, but also of other firms, on 
payment of some agreed-upon rate to the Central India Mining Com- 
pany. Everyone has not, however, taken advantage of its presence 
and large quantities of ore are still sent by bullock-cart to Tumsar Road. 
1. Kosumbah. 
(Central India Mining Company.) 
This deposit lies about a mile north-west of the village of the above 
name towards the north-western limits of the village area or mauza. It 
is held by the Central India Mining Company who are now actively 
working it, but at the time of my visit it Avas practically in its virgin 
condition. The ore-depcsit appears at the surface as a line of 4 hillocks 
stretched over a distance of | mile in a N. 25° E. direction. The most 
south-western hillock (No. 1) is situated a little to the north of the 
' Goordao ' Nala and lies over | mile south-south-west of hillock 2, 
which is joined to hillock 3. From hillock 3 to the most north- 
