Soo MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF INDIA : DESCRIPTIVE. [PaBT IV :; 
Analyses of sample taken by W. Selkirk. 
Number. 
5 
G 
7 
Manganese .... 
47 
45 
51 
•94 
53 
66 
Iron ..... 
3 
55 
3 
60 
3 
83 
Dried 
Silica 
13 
G5 
8 
30 
5 
30 
212°F 
Phosphorus .... 
0 
122 
0 
039 
0 
064 
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No. 5. From outcrop in .stream-bed at east end (nala exposure B). 
No. 6. From outcrop in strcrtni-bcd at 200 yards further west (nala exposure A). 
No. 7. From pit 2. 
Judging from the analyses above there is no doubt that some 
The working of \^Si^t of the ore of this deposit is of very 
the deposit. good quality, and it can only be a question of trans- 
port and prices as to whether it will pay to work it. During 1906 and 
1907 the deposit has been actively worked by the usual opencast methods. 
Considering the narrowness of the ore-band and the large amount of dead- 
work that will be necessary to win the ore as the depth of the working 
increases, it originally seemed to me that this was a deposit that should 
be mined from the very beginning, and not quarried, provided of course 
the result of boring tests justified this. The way in which the ore-band 
has been crumpled in places, and broken by pegmatitic rocks, as noticed 
above, and the extreme softness of the ' country ' renders it doubtful, 
however, if it v.'ould have been economically possible to actually mine 
this deposit. Nevertheless, as a result of not mining the deposit, it will 
probably be abandoned when the workings have reached a 
depth of 40 feet (20 to 25 feet was the greatest depth reached by the 
time of my visit in December 1907) ; and unless some boring be then 
done it will not be known whether or not a large quantity of valuable 
ore has been left in the ground. 
The deposit is situated about one mile south-west of the main Nag- 
pur-Chhindwara road at a point .31 miles from Nagpur. The ore des- 
patched from this deposit during 1906 and 1907 was carted over this 
route. 
