Chap- XXXIII. 1 bhandara : kurmura. 
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face. The ore was mostly tha hard grey braunite-psilomelaiie mixture, 
but a little o! it contained quartzite bands. There was also a little of 
the speckled ore. A small sample of the hard grey ore was analysed at 
the Imperial Institute with the following result : — 
Sample No. 55. 
Manganese peroxide .......... 48 "77 
Mangane.se ;)rotoxide . . ...... 29 '54 
Ferric oxide ........... 7 '32 
Silica (combined) .......... .5*05 
Silica (free) 0-82 
Pliosphurio oxide .......... 0"!3 
Moisture at 100° r 0-64 
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This is equivalent to : — 
Manganese . . . . . . . . . . . 53'76 
Iron 5-12 
Silica 6-47 
Phosphoru.s O'CO 
Moisture . . . . . . . . . .0-64 
and indicates that this ore contains 5G% braunite. This ore is of suffi- 
ciently good quality to justify a moderate expenditure on a search for 
its place of origin. 
10. Kupmura (Ponwar Dongri). 
(Central Provinces Prospecting Syndicate.) 
This deposit was first discovered by Mr. P. N. Datta in the field season 
of 1893-94, and is now held on mining lease by the Central Provinces 
Prospecting Syndicate. The ore-band crops out along the crest or ridge 
of a range of hills of which it forms the backbone. One and a quarter 
miles is the total length of outcrop of this band, which has a south-west to 
west-south-west strike at its west end, and curls round so as to strike about 
due east at the east end. At the west end the ore-band is first seen 
in a low hillock, only vein-quartz and muscovite-pegmatite being seen 
to the west of this. This part of the deposit is situated within the mauza 
of Kurmura, which lies just to the south of this end of the band. The 
band then rises up the main ridge, which has two peaks, the higher, 
eastern, one rising to about 290 feet above Kurmura pond ; at the 
east end it again descends and then crops out on a series of low hillocks. 
It is no longer visible when the stream-bed dividing Dongri Buzurg 
from Lobi is reached. ^ This ore-ridge forms the boundary between 
ll found a few fragments of spessartite -quartz -rock on the low flat range of 
hills in the southern part of Lobi situated about east by a little north from this point. 
It possibly indicates a continuation of this band. 
