Chap. XXX VT.] 
NAGrUR : BORDA. 
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These analyses are probably more typical of the whole deposit than the 
complete analysis given above of a specimen picked on account of its 
mineralogical peculiarities. 
Mr. Coggan has given me the following as representing the analysis 
of ore extracted during 1906 : — 
Manganese . . . 50 "31 
Silica .... 0-()0 
Phosphorus . . . 0-072 
Ouiput. The output figures for 1904 and 1905 are : — 
Year. Long tons. 
1904 ... 160 
1905 ... 494 
1900 . . . jSfil 
1907 . . . Nil 
11. Borda. 
(JIadhf Lall Doogae .Mining Syndicate.) 
This deposit is situated a little over h mile north of Borda village. At 
the base of a low hill of white vitreous quartzite, on its south and east 
sides, a number of shallow excavations had been made on behalf of 
Messrs. Cooverjee Bhoja of Calcutta. They showed loose fragments of 
manganese -ore for a depth of 1 to 2 feet, resting on a reddish sandy 
clay. As the pieces of ore were angular and some of them a foot in 
length (some were said to have been 2 feet across before breaking them) it 
is evident that the ore-body must be close by. Tn order to find the ore- 
body it will be necessary to dig some cross-cuts right down through the 
clay to the underlying rock. The quartzites on the hill show what is 
probably a dip of 25° to N. 20° E., so that the ore-body will probably 
have a strike about east-south -east. Hence the cross-cuts should be made 
in a north-north -east to south-south- west direction. As the alluvium 
was seen to a depth of 5 feet in one pit, these cross-cuts should be 
started as near as possible to the quartzites, so as to start where the 
layer of alluvium is thinnest. There were also a few fragments of 
quartz-pyroxene-gneiss lying on the ground, possibly indicating a band 
of this rock associated with the ore-band. 
The larger portion of the ore occurs in columnar fragments showing 
slickensides-striations. It might need a little cleaning, as a fair number 
of the pieces show occasional small white streaks or spots. One or two 
pieces contained some yellow spessartite streaks. The ore, which in 
physical aspect is exactly like that of Kandri, is finely crystalline, some 
being of the hard and some of the soft variety. A sample was taken 
