Chap. XXXTII.] bhandara: asalpani ii. 
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13a. Asalpani II (Saya Hupkl). 
(D. Laxminarayan.) 
This deposit was discovered in 1905 and is now being worked by D. 
Laxminarayan of Kumthi. Tt lies at the south-east corner of a hill 
known locally as ' Siiya Hurki ' 1 (Syudka Hoorkee on the 1 -inch map of 
this area). This hill is situated about 1^ miles in a north-easterly direction 
from Asal]:)Hni village and lies in Government forest. It is about 1 mile 
north-west of Karli village, on which account the deposit is often referred 
to as the Karii deposit, although it lies within a part of the forest formerly 
belonging to Asalpfini. The hill is composed of iuica-schists, very 
schistose micaceous quartzites, soricitic quartz-schists, and schistose 
quartzites, the dip varying from south-south-east to east. The manga- 
nese-ore band crops on t along the eastern slope or edge of the southward 
projecting spur of the hill-m^ss shown on the 1 -inch map. The general 
direction is northerly at the southern end changing to north-north-west 
further north ; the band can be traced for a tot?l length of about 3 
furlongs. 
The excavations at the southern end of the outcrop gave a thickness of 
8 to 12 feet to the ore-band, whilst in the most northerly excavation the 
band was only 2 feet thick. As no ore or manganiferous rock was to be 
seen cropping out immediately to the north of this point, but only crinkled 
mica-schists, it may be supposed that the band probably thins out to the 
north in a lenticular manner. As shown by the workings on the southern 
portions of the outcrop, the dip is fairly constant at about 45° to the 
east to east-south-east There workings show, however, that the ore- 
band is not a flat sheet, but is crumpled about axes having the dip of the 
ore-band. The consequence is that the actual plan of the ore-band is a 
sinuous curve of which the average direction is the strike given above. 
In the workings as seen in December 1906 many surfaces of thi ore- 
band had been uncovered by the removal of the easily-quarried over- 
lying mica-schists, and these were seen to be deeply grooved and fluted 
parallel to these dip-axes, i.e., down the dip planes. 
The overlying rock is a fairly coarse silvery mica-schist, crumpled and 
separated in one place from the ore-band by a 2-inch layer of very fine- 
grained mica-schist. The underlying rock is a white friable fine-grained 
schistose quartzite passing down into fine-grained mica-quartz-schist. 
1 This means teak-tree hill 
