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stacked ores. The samples so collected were analysed at the Imperial 
Institute and are dispersed throughout the text under the headings 
of the respective deposits. The lunits and mean of the 2G samples 
analysed are shown below • — 
Limits. 
Mean. 
Manganese .... 
42-28— 55-15 
51 -36 
Iron ..... 
2-09— Hi- 34 
0-45 
Silica ..... 
2-!)0— 18-48 
7-07 
Phosphorus .... 
0-04— 0-65 
()-I15 
Moist uro .... 
Oil— 1-32 
0-40 
No samples were taken at Kiindri and Mansar. The foregoing aver- 
age is therefore somewhat low because the ores of these two deposits 
are some of the best in the district. Of course, the above does not give 
a true average. The only way to get such figures would be to get the 
average analysis of the total amount of ores exported from each deposit 
and then to average all these analyses by giving to each a value pro- 
portionate to the total output of the deposit it represented. Such 
figures are unfortunately not available. 
The deposits in this district are all situated at varying distances 
Cuunnnirations and the north of the Bengal-Nagpur Railway. When 
traiisiioit. the mining of manganese was first started all trans- 
port of ore to the railway was effected by carting over distances varying 
from 5J to 20 miles and over. Messieurs Jambon & Cie. then laid down 
(1903) a 2 foot-gauge tramway from Tharsa station to Waregaon (5i 
miles) and this has since been extended westwards by the Central India 
Mining Co., Ltd., to Kacharwahi (7 miles) and Lohdongri (8| miles), 
and northwards to Mandri (ll-i miles), and Manegaon (13| miles), 
the distances in brackets being measured from Tharsa station, Bengal- 
Nagpur Railway. This tramway also serves to carry ores from Gugul- 
doho (Jessop & Co.) and Panchala, after they have been carted as far 
as the tramway. Hand-traction was at first used, but the whole fine 
has now been converted for steam-traction, by means of which it is 
possible to run trains of 20 to 40 trucks carrying 1 to 2 tons of ore each. 
A broad-gauge line has been constructed from Kamthi to Ramtek, by 
the Bengal-Nagpur Railway, with a siding passing Mansar and termina- 
ting at Kandri, 16 to 17 miles from Kamthi. It was opened, I believe, 
in 1907, and will serve to transport not only the Kandri and Mansar 
ores, but also those of Mandvi Bir, Junawani, and Junapilni, situated 
some 6 miles north of Kandri, up to which place the ore will have to 
be carted. Up till 1907 the ores of all these deposits have been carted 
at great expense in bullock-carts holding about i a ton each, over the 
main road from Jabalpur to Kamthi, first to Kamthi itself, and later 
