794 MANGANESE DEPOSITS OP INDIA : DESCRIPTIVE. [PaRT IV : 
From these various analyses it wUl be seen that the ore of this locality 
is highly phosphoric, whilst it is hardly up to first grade in its manganese 
percentage. Measured in a straight line this deposit is about 5 miles 
south-east of the road to Chhindwara at a point about 30 miles from that 
town. Hence until a railway has been constructed through this area it 
cannot pay to work such ore. Even when such a line has been construc- 
ted it is not likely that this ore will be worked except at times of very 
high prices, when it often pays to ship second grade ores as well as first. 
9. Wagora 1 
The metauiorphic rooks at Wagora consist chiefly of biotite-garnet- 
granulites2, gneisses, and schists, having a general strike of about W. 
35° N. with an average dip of 60° to the south side. By traversing the 
various nalas it is seen that there are at least six parallel bands of 
spessartite-quartz-rock (gondite) intercalated in the above rocks. These 
bands vary in thickness from 15 inches to 60 yards, and the same band 
is seen to expand and contract in a lenticular fashion t( a very marked 
degree, the most noticeable case being that of the most north-easterly 
band (A)3, which in one place is 60 yards and in another only 6 yards 
wide. Though there is such an abundance of manganiferous rock, yet 
in no case is it of any commercial value. The only two places where 
the rock is to any extent altered to manganese-ore are at the points 
marked A and B on the map, Plate 20, Rec, G. S. /., Volume XXXIII. 
At A is a hillocky ridge 270 yards long passing to the south-east under 
the liameta rocks ; in places this manganiferous band seems to be 60 yards 
wide. In this outcrop occurred a little rhodonite as well as spessartite ; 
and it is the rhodoniferous rock that is furthest changed to ore. A sample 
was taken of a few pieces of as good ore as could be found. It showed 
rhodonite, spessartite, and quartz, besides the ore, which consisted of 
psilomelane with some braunite. 
It was analysed at the Imperial Institute with the following result : — 
Sample No. 8. 
Manganese peroxide . . . . . . . . . 31'05 
Manganese protoxide . . . . . . . . 12'16 
Ferric oxide ... 9-83 
Combined silica . . . . . . . . . 0'57 
Free silica ... . 30-06 
Phosphoric oxide . . . ..... 0' 34 
Moisture at 100°C. . . 0-86 
1 Hec. 0. 8. I., XXXIII, p. 213, (1906). 
2 Ibid., pp. 179, 180. 
Ibid., map, Plate 20„ 
