746 MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF INDIA: DESCRIPTIVE. [PahT IV: 
rendered necessary by my cursory visit in December 1907. The 
manganese-ores occur on hillocky ground, where there are five separate 

Fig. 45. — Sketch-plan of the Miragpur manganese-ore occurrences. 
Dotted line is boundary of talus-ore deposits. 
exposures, while a sixth lies to the south side of the tank (see Fig. 45). 
The village lies to the west of this hillocky ground. Exposures Nos. 1 
and 2 are almost certainly isolated and apparently consist of two 
cappings of manganese-rocks, which were once joined together, but are 
now separated by a small valley eroded between them. If joined 
together these two patches would form a synclinal strip running about 
E. 5° N., the folding being very slight and the synclinal axis having 
a very shallow dip to the west. Exposure No. 2 is almost a perfect 
shallow synchnal basin, the dip at the west end being, however, in the 
wrong direction, namely westward instead of eastward. All round 
the edge of this, which is the highest hillock (perhaps 50 to 80 feet 
high), the nearly horizontal layers of manganese-rock crop out. Ex- 
posures 3 and 6 may really be continuous. The relations of 4 and 5 
to the rest are obscured by ore debris. The actual ' country ' of 
the deposit is nowhere exposed ; the nearest rocks seen are vein- 
quartz-like quartzite, found as fragments round the base of this hillocky 
area and probably in situ to the east on the low hills there ; and 
