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MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF INDIA : DESCRIPTIVE. [PaRT IV 
The horizontal width across the strike of the ore-beds here was 115 feet, 
but it was not certain that the full width was exposed. Owing to the 
dirty state of the floor of the quarry I was not able to ascertain if the whole 
of this width consisted of ore, or whether there were any interlaminations 
of barren rock. On the south-east edge of the pit some light grey and 
dark grey quartzites were exposed, whilst in the ore at this point there 
v/ere some patches of coarse felspar-rock wiih a little quartz. The length 
of the ore-body in a N. 35° E. direction was 205 fer-t as far as exposed. 
In 1903 the working of this deposit was extremely simple. It con- 
The working of the sisted in inserting crowbars between the divisional 
deposit. planes of the ore, and prizing it out ; but when very 
large masses were encountered without any cracks it was then necessary 
to resort to blasting. 
By 1907 the pit had reached a depth of 33 feet, a steam- winch was em- 
ployed for hauling the waste and ore in trucks up a single pair of rails 
from the bottom of the pit, and a pump for keeping the water under. As 
at many other deposits in this district the old waste-dumps are in positions 
where they will hinder the future opencast working of the deposit. 
This has been excavated at the north foot of the mica- quartz-schist 
hills, and has been carried to the junction of the ore with the mica quartz- 
schists to the south of the deposit (see fig. 50). The original outcrop 
was a yard or two across, and the excavation, at 
Mine 2 
the end of 1903, was 170 feet long, and of very 
irregular shape, varying from 20 to 80 feet in width. [By Decembe 
Fig. 50. — Sketch plan of Kodegaon mine 2. Scale — Sa-ue as fig. 49. 
