CiiAi'. XXXIV.] 
CIIIIINDWARA : GHOXl. 
793 
yellow to deep orange and red in colour ; while the ore varies in character 
from hard stcol-grey finely facetted ore and soft very crystalline friable 
grey ore to grey ore patched with l)lack and niixed with quartz, garnet, 
and ferruginous patches ; these ores are various mixtures of braunite 
and psilonielane. The quantity of good ore does not seem very large. 
The northern band contains, on the whole, the better ore. 
An outcrop sample was taken by me from wherever the ore looked 
Nature and qimliiy of to be of possible value. The pieces of ore showed 
the ore. braunite and psilomelane and sometimes a little 
yellow garnet. The analysis carried out at the Imperial Institute is as 
follows : — 
Sample No. 14. 
Manganese peroxide . . . . . . . . . 42"24 
Manganese protoxide . . - . . . . . . 29'42 
Feiric oxide . . . . . . . . . . . 1 T 02 
Combined silica . . . . . . . . . . o'dO 
Free silica . . . . . . - • . . . 3"14 
Phosphoric oxide . . . . . . . . . . 0'64 
Moisture at 100° C. 0-52 
This is equivalent to : — 
Manganese . . . . . . . . . . . 40"55 
Iron 7-71 
Silica (total) 8-74 
Phosphorus 0*279 
Making allowance for the small amount of garnet present, the analysis 
shows that the ore consists of about equal proportions of braunite and 
psilomelane. 
The two following analyses are taken from reports by Messrs. H. K. 
Scott and W. Selkirk, respectively : — 
Mr. Scott. 
Mr. Selkirk. 
Manganese ....... 
48-62 
49-48 
8-17 
8-25 
6-28 
4-60 
Phosphorus ....... 
0-276 
0-306 
The first sample is described as composed of merchantable ore from 
the whole length of the deposit. Mr. Selkirk's sample was taken from 
the best-looking ore on the property. 
