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not only arc tlu\y too close to the (lep'>.sit, hut sotnc of t liciii lie actually 
oil the line of strike of the dejjosit. liy Decemher JitOti, some of flioso 
cluin])s had been removed to a safe distance. Althou<.';h the i»it was quite 
sliallow, not more than 20 to 'M) feet deep in 1904, ^^et a considerable 
amount of water accumulated every nitflit in the (lee])er i)arts of the pit 
and had to be removed every morning by baling with kerosine tins. 
A ] 0-inch Tangye duplex pump has now been set ;ip at the mine. The 
ore from this deposit is carted to Salwa Railway (Station, Bengal- 
Nagpur Railway, distant about seven miles. 
The output from this deposit during the years ISOl 
Out put. , , . „ ,, 
' to 1!)07 IS as follows :— 
\''ear. Long tons. 
1901 3,114 
1902 . . 4,094 
1903 5,347 
1904 l,r>85 
190". 1.344 
1906 3.5.53 
1907 7,257 
16. Nagardhan. 
At the time of my visit in February 1904, only a small pit 3 feet 
deep had been dug in a field. It showed 2 feet of alluvial clay resting on 
one foot of talus-ore, the pebbles being one to three inches in diameter. 
The ore was a hard crystalline variety containing scattered prismatic 
aggregates of a fairly soft mineral (pyrolusite). This pit was situated 
only G4 paces west of the boundary of Nandapuri village and the ore 
in it had doubtless been derived either from the Nandapuri deposit, 
which lies immediately the other side of the village bo, ndary, or from 
an extension of this same deposit into Nagardhan limits. The work 
that was conmiencod here by the Central India Mining Company has been 
abandoned. 
