Chat. XXXIII.] bhandara : siTAPAxnuR. 
739 
Mr. H. D. Coggan gives me the following figures as showing the average 
analysis of the ore raised from this do|)osit during 1905 and V.)O(') : — 
1905. 
1906. 
Manganese .......... 
5.-} -70 
52 06 
Silica .......... 
4-81 
5-42 
Flios]ihorus 
0-082 
0- 154 
During 1905, 1906, and 1907 this deposit has 
been worked with the following output : — 
Year. Long tons. 
1905 8,105 
1906 17,682 
1907 29,396^ 
The ore won here is, after carting to Sukli, sent by means of the 
Central India Mining Company's steam-tramway to Tumsar Road Sta- 
tion, Bengal-Nagpur Railway, a distance of about 33 miles. 
2. Sitapathup. 
(Central Provinces Prospecting Syndicate.) 
This deposit was first found by Mr. P. N. Datta in 1893-94. The 
ore-band is traceable at intervals for if miles in the villages of Sukli and 
Sitapathur. A length of | mile of this lies in Sukli village where it strikes 
N. 10° W., but a little before reaching the Sukli-Sitapathur boundary the 
band curls round to N. 20° E. and continues with this strike for a 
mile in Sitapathur limits. The Sukli portion is described separately (page 
742). The Sitapathur portion of the band is held by the Central Pro- 
vinces Prospecting Syndicate. At its southern end it runs for about 
^ mile along the ridge of a hill,l perhaps 150 feet high, the most southern 
part of the hill lying in Suljli limits ; and then, after becoming lost on low 
ground, it reappears to the north and soon rises to form a long low ridge 
(No. 2) along which it continues for about I to | mile. It is again found 
on low ground a little to the north of this, and finally only scattered 
1 Designated below as Sitapathur Hill and situated about 1| miles south-south-east 
of the village. 
