020 MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF INDIA : DESCRIPTIVE. [pART IV : 
ouica . . . . . 
o 78 
Phosphoric oxide 
0-204 
•Arsenic cxide 
0 049 
Sulphuric oxido 
. 0-080 
Nickel and cobs It oxide 
traces 
Ccnibined water 
1-90 
Moisture . . . . . 
0-40 
Total 
99-813 
Manganese .... 
49-03 
Iron . . . . . 
8-97 
Phophorus . . . . 
0-089 
The following are the partial anal3^ses supplied : — 
Date of analysis . 
January, 1906. 
November, 1906. 
Details of sample. 
Range of seven samples . 
(1) 
Tonnage. 
156 to 450. 
6,000. 
Manganese ..... 
47-12 to 49-78 
50-64 
Iron ...... 
8-22 to )0-(i2 
7-32 
Silica ...... 
()-40 to 7-45 
7-05 
Phosphorus ..... 
0-0i")4 to 0-098 
0 ■()<((» 
At the time of my first visit, in February 1904, work had been com- 
pletely stopped, because the price of manganese was then only 8J pence 
The working of the P^^ ''^i^; and the produce from this ore-body averages 
deposit. only 48 to 51 per cent, manganese. With the subse- 
quent rise of prices the 9,000 tons of ore then stacked have been removed 
and exported. This ore was formerly sent to Salwa station some 7 miles 
distant and blended with higher grade ores like those of Beldongri. Bu t 
the deposit has now been connected up with the tramway system of 
the Central India Mining Company, and the ores are now railed via 
Kacharwahi and Waregaon to Tharsa station, Bengal-Nagpur Rail- 
way, a total distance of 9 J miles ; trains of 25 to 40 trucks are drawn 
by small locomotives, each truck carrying 1 to If tons according to size. 
For this service the Central India Mining Company charges the Central 
Provinces Prospecting Syndicate Rs. 1-4 per ton, the saving to the Cen- 
tral Provinces Prospecting Syndicate being about Re. 1 per ton over 
the former cost of carting. To work the deposit must be a very simple 
problem ; for not only is the ore well bedded, but the beds are broken 
up by cross joints. Hence no blasting is required, but simply crowbars 
and picks to prize out the ore. As this is pretty uniform in quality, 
very little is rejected, and, since the country has hardly been touched, 
practically all that it is necessary to throw away is the refuse from the 
1 For thi.' sample some ore was taken from every truck-load despatched during 
Ootober 1906, each truck-load being about 1^ tons. 
