760 
MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF INDIA : DESCRIPTIVE. [PaUT IV : 
The ore from this locality was being carted to Tumsar Road Rail- 
way Station, a distance of 20 miles, in spite of the proximity of the 
Central India Plining Company's steam tramway. 
The output from this deposit from 1901 to 1907 is as follows : — 
Year. Long tons. 
1901 499 
1902 .5,112 
1903 4,998 
1904 8,559 
1905 14,791 
1906 27,078 
1907 38.840 
12, Sitasaongi. 
(Central Provinces Prospecting Syndicate.) 
The main ore-band was first found by Mr. P. N. Datta in 1893-94 ; 
this area is now held by the Central Provinces Prospecting Syndicate. 
There are four parallel ore-bands in Sitasaongi, the southern and most 
important of which forms the ridge of Dholi Hill, while the other three 
occur on the northern slopes facing Bhamsisur Hill. Dholi Hill is situated 
due south of Bhamasur Hill and not south-south-east of it as shown on 
the map. It is also not so high as Bhamasur Hill, but is probably only 
300 to 400 feet high. 
In making a north to south transit across the rocks here, starting 
fi'om the Chikhla ore-band and going southwards, the following succes- 
sion of rocks was found, much of the ground being obscured either by the 
dense jimgle, or by the rock debris on the hill slopes. 
North.— The Chikhla ore-band (1). 
Obscured. 
Muscovite-gneiss with felspathic augen and lenticular bands of pink 
;> quartz-felspar-rock. 
Vein-quartz. 
Muscovite-gneiss. ^ 
Vein-quartz fragments. 
Do. in eit'u. 
Muscovite-gneiss. 
Vein-quartz fragments and micaceous quartzite. 
Obscured. 
Mica-schists. 
Sitasaongi ore-band (2). 
Obscured. ' 
Mica-schist. 
Sitas.iongi ore-band (3). 
