ClIAl'. XXXIII.] BIIANDARA : CIIIKHLA I. 
These figures correspond to the following limits and mean : — 
759 
Mcivii. 
Afanganese 
Iron 
Silica . 
riiosphorus 
48-84 to 52-28 
()-7S to 10-02 
6-8() to 10-05 
O-OCS to 0-205 
50-0!) 
7- 95 
8- 10 
0-114 
At the time of my second visit to this deposit — in December 1907 — 
The woikinn <if the I found that it had been worked to a large extent, 
deposit- but that this work had been confined to the talus 
deposits. The excavations in this talus showed that the talus-ore is as 
much as 10 feet thick in places ; it is said to have been found to be 16 feet 
thick in exceptional cases. The underlying rock is seen in these work- 
ings to be mica-schists traversed by quartz veins. To aid in the system- 
atic working of these talus deposits a gravity incline was -ander construc- 
tion down the north-east corner of Bhamasur Hill. The total fall on 
this incline is 320 feet, with a length of 1,100 feet to the rail-crossing at 
the base. The gradient of the top 600 feet is 1 in 3, after this gradually 
decreasing to horizontal at the unloading station, and then sloping slight- 
ly up. These figures are on the authority of Mr. J. J. Freund, Assistant 
Manager in charge of this deposit. The object of this ropeway is the 
easy removal of the ore being worked on the east-north-east face of Bham- 
asur Hill. The ore here is being worked in a series ol levels, said to be 
about 80 feet apart. When the ropeway is ready it will be used first to 
carry the ore of the lowest level ; when all this has been shifted the effect- 
ive length of the hauling rope will be lessened and the ore of the next 
higher level removed, and so on, right to the highest level. By working 
systematically up the hill-side in this way a fairly clean sweep of the 
talus deposits will be made. The only point where any appreciable 
waste comes in is in the treatment of the smalls. Many thousands of 
small pebbles of high-grade manganese-ore below about l i to 1 inch dia. 
meter are being thrown on the waste dumps. At the time of my visit 
the amount of ore stacked on the levels was said to be 40,000 tons ; this 
was waiting, of course, for the completion of the incline. At the top of 
the incline an adit was being driven into the hill-side to intersect the 
ore-body in situ. 
