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NAOPUR DISTRICT. 
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The first discovery of the class of deposit at present being worked 
was by Tjieutenant R. E. Oakes^ in 1850 of the fine deposit described 
below under the heading of Mansar. It was afterwards noticed by 
Mr. Wilson, Executive Engineer of the Kanhun Division, and then 
a sample of it, sent by W. Ness, analysed by F. R. Mallet, (1879)^. 
and shown tc be braunite with a little rhodonite' and to contain 
55% of manganese. Dr. W. T. Rlanford, in 1872, discovered ore at 
Kodegaon' ; but which of the two deposits that occur there is not 
known. 
Nothing more seems to have been heard of the Niigpur manganese 
until Messrs. W. H. Clark in 1899 and Harvey Dodd in 1900, of the Vizi- 
anagram Mining Co., Ltd., came to this district to prospect for manganese. 
Following up the references in Rail's P^conomic Geology they visited 
Mansar and Kodegaon, and continuing to prospect in the neighbourhood 
discovered the Gumgaon and Ramdongri deposits near Kodegaon, and 
the Kandri, Beldongri, Sfttak, and Lohdongri, deposits in the Mansar 
neighbourhood. 
A syndicate known as the Central Provinces Prospecting Syndicate, 
and consisting of Messrs. J. H. Glass, P. Macfadyen, and H. G. Turner, 
was then formed to work these deposits, Mr. Clark being appointed 
manager, a position which he has retained ever since. Work was com- 
menced late in 1899 on the Mansar deposit and the first shipment took 
place in the spring of 1900 ; the operations of this syndicate have con- 
stantly increased until in 1906 it extracted from the three districts of 
Balaghat, Bhandara, and Nagpur, 22.3,822 tons of ore or nearly | of the 
world's output. The success of this syndicate led to the discovery of 
fresh deposits in the same district by Mr. H. D. Ccggan, and in the be- 
ginning of 1902 Messieurs Charles Jarabon and Cie. of Calcutta started 
work on the deposits discovered through Mr. Coggan's agency. The 
actual times of commenceiuent were as follows : — 
These deposits were actively worked, and. after they had been 
opened up and considerable quantities of ore exported, a company 
1 Manual of Geology of India, Pt. Ill, Econojnic Geologv, p- 329. 
2 Rec. G. S. I., XII, p. 73, (1879). 
* Really spessartite ; see page 140. 
* Manual, Pt. Ill, Economic Geology, p. 330. 
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