oil NJAXi; AXKSK DKPOSITS OF INDIA : DESCEIPTIVE. [Part TY : 
18. Lohdongri. 
(Oentkal Puovixces Prospecting Syndicate.) 
(iSVe Plaice :}S lo 10.) 
This property is licld on a mining lease by the Central Provinces Pros- 
pecting Syndicate. The accompanying rough sketch-plan (Pig. (56 ) 
constructed by means of a pocket- compass and pacing, illustrates this 
deposit as it was in February 1901. Since then the deposit has been 
very actively worked and has been so cut up that it is no longer possible 
to unravel its structure easily. The deposit formed a low flat grassy 
mound about 380 yards long from east to west and 200 broad, by about 
30 to 35 feet high. It is interesting to note that the name means ' iron- 
■fPEBMATlTE 
ROAD 
Fi<r. 66. — R<]Ugh >iko1( li-]^laii of the Lohdtngri manganese-ore deposit (Feb. 1004). 
hill ' in the vernacular. This mound consisted of a mass of ' beds ' of 
manganese-ore, crumpled as shov/n in the section in Plate 40, and 
covered at th'^ surface by detritus derived from these ' beds ' 
giving rise to loose fragments scattered all over the mound. The 
ore-layers varied in thickness from about 2 inches to 2 feet and more, 
and in addition to being crumpled about axes or lines parallel to the strike, 
which is east and west, they showed in places some small crumplings 
about axes at right angles to the strike. The total thickness of the ore- 
