Chat. XXXVT.] 
NA(;PT^T? : KACllARWAin. 
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During 1007 the existence of nianganese-orc between the Kficharwahi 
and Waregiioii deposits, at a distance of G or 7 feet below the surface, 
has been proved hy means of a trial pit. The occurrence is being openefl 
Jessopniid Coinpuny's up by Messrs. Jessop and Company. Such work 
Kafhnrwahi. jjf^^j hocn done at the time of my visit, showed 
a steep dip to the N. 20" E. The rocks and minerals exposed were man- 
ganese-ore, quartzite, gondite, and tnuscovite-rock. The ore was braunite 
with much residual spessartite, and did not look of much value. 
20. Wapegaon. 
(Central Indi.\ .Mining Company.) 
This deposit is situated a little over a mile east by north from 
Kacharwahi, and is connected by a light tramway of 2-foot gauge to 
Tharsa station. Bengal-Nagpur Railway, 5| niiles to the south. It 
is the junction for the lines from Lohdongri and Manegiion and fiom 
here some 300 tons of ore a day can be carried to Tharsa. Work was 
started at Waregaon in March 1902. In quarrying the ore, a large 
excavation has been dug in the alluvium. It was, at the time of my 
visit in February 1904, 360 feet long and 160 broad, and contained water 
at a depth of 22 to 25 feet. The ore-band had been exposed for a length 
of about 300 feet, and the horizontal width where it was apparently 
widest was 48 feet. The strike is about E. 20° N. and the dip very vari- 
able (30° to 50°). but averaging about 40° to the S. 20° E. Taking this 
dip, the true thickness of the ore-band works out as 31 feet. By means 
of a pumping-engine to remove the water, the quarry had been exca- 
vated to a depth of 35 to 40 feet, when it was found necessary, early in 
1904, to discontinue the work. This was partly owing to the fact that 
all visible ore of good quality above the water-level had been extracted, 
that still left in the bottom of the pit being difficult to win on account 
of the 10 to 15 feet of water above it,l and partly because the ore was 
getting more siliceous and some hat aisenical with increasing depth. 
To extend the pit along the strike was impossible, except at great 
expense, owing to the fact that huge piles of waste had been dumped 
at both ends of the quariy, as well as along its sides. At a point about 
200 feet west of the west end of the quarry — i.e., on the further side of the 
dump lying across the west end of the quarry — a small trial-pit that 
had recently been dug (February 1904) revealed the existence of good- 
quality ore at a depth of only 3 to 4 feet from the surface. The several 
small pits that had been put down as the result of the discovery showed 
that the strike of the ore in these pits would, if it did not curve round, 
carry the ore to the north of the main quarry, indicating it to be 
either a parallel band of ore to that exposed in the main quarry,'''or 
1 There are said to be springs along the bottom of the pit. 
