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MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF INDIA : DESCRIPTIVE. [PaRT IV : 
The analyses given above may be compared with those of samples 
taken by Messrs. Scott and Selkirk, respectively, when they reported on 
this deposit. They are as follows : — 
Manganese 
Iron 
Silica 
Phosphorus 
During 1906 and 1907 this deposit has been opened up and a consider- 
able quantity of ore carted to Chhindwara and thence railed to Calcutta 
via Nainpur and Gondia. Mr. Henry M. Hance, Manager of the Indian 
Manganese Company, has khidly supplied the following figures of cargo 
analyses of Sitapar ore : — 
1. 
2_ 
Manganese 
54-42 
53 
83 
Iron 
6-00 
5 
00 
Silica 
7-00 
6 
85 
Phosphorus 
0-077 
0 
053 
Moisture 
0-16 
0 
16 
The remarkably close agreement between these analyses of large quan- 
tities of quarried ore and those of the outcrop samples taken by Scott, 
Selkirk, and myself, show that a good idea of the value of the ore in a 
deposit can sometimes be obtained from outcrop sam^ples. It is evident, 
moreover, froni these analyses that the ores f this deposit are of verv 
high grade and equal to the best of the Nagpur ores. 
This deposit has been opened up in the usual form, of an open quarry, 
The working of the ^ conical mass of ore having been uncovered, 
deposit. at so many other manganese quarries, it is now 
found necessary to shift spoil that was originally dumped too near the edge 
of the pit. The amount of waste so dumped is, however, not nearly so 
large as at many other deposits. The ore is carted to Chhindwara station, 
20 miles distant, by a good road involving, however, a steep ghat asr*^nt 
on to the Satpura plateau. 
