CiiAi'. XXX vr.] 
VAOri K ; S ATAK. 
89!) 
luivc extracted the following from a report by Mr. J. H. Gootlchild made 
on behalf of Messrs. 81iaw, Wallace and Company of Calcutta : — 
• The grmind is Cijvorocl vvitii I'f- and cornfields. Along the line (/f a wide 
ditch between the two lields sonio 1 u se ore se?nis to have been discovered nnd 
an cxc;ivati :n started out <>t which some 130 torn or so of mnngnnese ore were 
taken out. Tlie rxc ivnticn h;'.d been cnniplct 'ly filled up with mud by the 
rccrnt rains so thit it was impossible for mo to form any idea as to the nature of 
the dei^osit, or e ven to tell where th^ pile of ore lying close by, hnd been taken 
from. A sample from this p'le gave: — 
Manganese 30 C.5 
Iron 0-33 
Silica 8-40 
Phosplionis . . . . . . . . . . 0 177 
14, Satak. 
Within the limits of this village manganese-ores have been traced at 
intervals for about | mile. The ores to the west of, and in, the village 
only just cropped out at the surface and have been exposed by j^its dug, in 
some places, into the alluvial soil of the fields. This part of the ore-band 
has a general strike of east-south-east and is worked by the Central India 
Mining Company, and will be described below as Satak I. What is prob- 
ably a continuation of this band reappears to the east of the village in a 
mound striking E. 10° N. This part of the band is leased by the 
Central Provinces Prospecting Syndicate and will be described below as 
Satak IT. 
Satak I. 
(Central India Mining Company.) 
The most westerly and also the largest of the excavations of the Central 
Iiidia Mining Company is situated 1.32 paces east of the road from Char- 
gaon to Kerdi and j ust to the south of the road leading from Dumri Kalan 
to Satak. It had been excavated in the alluvial clay soil, and con- 
tained a depth of some feet of water, which concealed the ore, except 
roimd the edge. The ore has a strike of about south-west and a dip 
to the south-east in one place at about 40°. 
This is probably only a local deviation from the roughly east-west 
strike of all the deposits on the Dumri-Khandala line of strike. In one 
place the ore was bedded in layers 2 inches to 1 foot thick and was a hard 
grey-black braunite varying from finely to coarsely crystalline, and usually 
containing various impurities (often original spessartite). In addition to 
a soft variety of ore composed of a network of soft and hard ores, there is 
also, in this quarry, a large amount of manganese-ore rendered quite value- 
less by the presence of abundance of unaltered or but partly altered gar- 
nets. Quartz-spessartite-rhodonite-rock (rhodonite-gondite), some very 
similar to that of Chargaou, is also abundant. It contains red, orange, 
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