MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF INDIA : DESCRIPTIVE. [PaRT IV : 
SCHISTOSE MICACEOUS 
gUARTZITES 
Fig. 46. — Sjction across the G&tk&r-Bh1iQg6 portion of tlie Asal- 
p6ni manganese -ore deposit. 
50 feet high, this hillock being situated on the south slope of a small hill of 
micaceous quartz- 
aAE. ..-f^fTf^T^lTh^ N.N.W. ites. Fig. 46 gives a 
section across the 
deposit here. The 
' country ' on the 
f ootwall of the depo- 
sit is nowhere visible, 
but is probably 
mica-schist ; for this 
rock was exposed in 
a trench made at the 
north-east corner of the Asalpani pond. The dip is everywhere towards 
the south side, at angles varyiag from 35° to 65°. 
The ore-baud consists of spessartite- quartz-rock of various colours, 
greyish, brownish, reddish, and purplish, sometimes quite fresh and some- 
times partly altered, and often interbanded with quartz £nd quartzite and 
in some places with rhodonite-rock. The maximum width seen was 14 
paces across the outcrop at the point where the section in Fig. 46 v/as 
drawn ; the outcrop here is divided into two by an intercalated band of 
mica-schist. 
The ore-band is nowhere sufficiently altered to manganese-ore to be 
workable. At one place, I found a little very magnetic manganese-ore 
composed of a mixtme of psilomelane and^braunite (?) with remains of 
rhodonite and garnet. 
An analysis of some manganese-ore, probably from this deposit, 
carried out by Mr. E. Riley for Messrs. Ogilvy Gillanders & Go. of 
Calcutta showed :— 
Manganese 
Iron 
Silica 
Phosphorus 
Moisture 
20-90 
4-26 
37-92 
0-079 
0-53 
No work had been carried out except for one or two shallow pits, and, 
as far as one can judge from the outcrop, this deposit is of no present 
economic value : but judging from the case of the Hatora deposit there 
might be some marketable ore below the surface. 
