862 
MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF INDIA : DESCRIPTIVE. [PaET IV : 
Leaving out of account the Borda deposit, which is an isolated one, 
the deposits of this group lie in the mass of hills situated to the west of 
Eamtek and to the north and east of Mansar. The associated rocks are 
mica-schists, quartzites, fine-grained gneisses containing a magnetic 
mineral, perhaps mangan-magnetite, and occasional crystalline limestones. 
Although the Knndri deposit is now apparently isolated from that of 
Mansar, and is probably a lenticular mass, yet at one time it may have 
been joined to what is now the Mansar deposit and have been separated 
from it by squeezing during the earth movements by which the original 
manganiferous sediments were metamorphosed. Mansar Extension is 
only a portion of the Mansar deposit lying at its western end. The Par- 
soda deposit lying about f mile to the south-south-east of the south- 
east end of the Mansar band is in all probability an extension of the 
latter, the intervening portions of the manganiferous band being obscured 
by alluvial soil. The ore from thi'? group of deposits was, up till 
1907, carried by bullock carts along the road to Kam^thi, a distance of son.e 
16 to 17 miles ; but this has been changed now the Ramtek Railway, 
with its siding to Mansar and Ksindri, has been completed. 
If the deposits of this group represent what was once a continuou-i 
layer of manganiferous sediments, then we might expect to find the con- 
tinuation of this layer somewhere to the east. If the line of deposits 
forming group IV is to be regarded as this continuation, then it is obvious 
from the map (Plate 43) that there is probably a large cros? fault run- 
ning in a north-east direction from the west of Dumri towards Ramtek, 
passing to the west of this town. 
7. Kandri. 
(Central Pkovinces Prospecting Syndicate.) 
(See Plates 26 to 31.) 
This is probably the finest body of manganese-ore yet found in India, 
and certainly one of the finest in the world. 
The ore-body (see Plate 32) takes the form of a lenticular band 
Geology of the de- about -|- mile long and curved into a horse-shoe 
P"**'*- shape, forming three hills. Two of these, the south 
and north hills, rise to about 260 and 210 feet, respectively, above 
the low gromid to the east (see Plate 26, fig. 1). They are joined 
by a saddle, the elevation of which is not many feet below that of the 
north hill. The ore-band in both these hills consists of merchantable 
ore, but in the saddle it consists mostly of spessartite-rock and spessartite- 
bearing quartzites. The east hill is about 120 feet high and here the 
ore-band is composed of gondite and spessartite-bearing quartzites, often 
largely changed to manganese-ore, but not sufficiently so to be workable. 
The portion of the band which we must suppose joins the east hill to the 
north hill is obscured by talus-ore. As regards the terminations of the ore- 
