ClIAP. XXXIV.] cnniNDWARA : sitapak. 
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It is evident from the analyses that the ore of this deposit is well 
worth (luarrying, as it is high in manganese and low in phosphorus, the 
only feature against it being the somewhat high percentage of siUca. 
During 1906 a start has been made in opening up this deposit. The 
deposit is less than a mile east of the main road at a point about 2G 
miles from Chhindwara. 
The output from this deposit during 190G and 
Output. j^Q^ j^jj^^g 
Year. Long tons. 
1906 205 
1907 177 
4. Sitapap.i 
(Indian Manganese Company.) 
(See Plate 22.) 
This deposit is situated about f mile due west of Sitapar village, 
which is erroneously located on the 1-inch topographical map, being 
really the village shown as ' Pangree ', while Pangri is a very small 
hamlet about \ mile east by north from Sitapar. It is about 1 mile east 
of a point on the main road 26 miles from Chhindwara. The ore 
deposit takes the form of a small elliptical hillock 27 yards long from 
east to west by 23 broad and perhaps 20 to 25 feet high. It rises from 
a cultivated field so that all the associated rocks are completely concealed 
by alluvium and the whole outcrop consists of huge blocks (see Plate 22) 
of ore, which contain a variety of minerals, amongst which not a trace 
of either spessartite or rhodonite is visible. The mineral assemblage 
on the other hand, is unique. 
The foregoing description applies to the deposit as I saw it in 1903 
in the virgin state before any work had been done on it. When I re- 
visited it in December 1907 the deposit had been largely worked. The 
overburden had been stripped on all sides exposing a conical mass of ore 
standing up in the middle of the quarry. The strike of the ore-band was 
seen to be east-south-east, with a steep dip to the south side (average 
of about 80°). The width of the deposit as exposed — for it was not 
certain that the full width had been exposed — was 135 feet, which, at 
a dip of 80°, corresponds to a true thickness of 133 feet. This thickness 
includes a small proportion of partings or mtrusions of pegmatite. The 
1 Rec. O. 8. I., XXXIII, pp. 211, 232, (1906). 
