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MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF INDIA : DESCRIPTIVE. [PaRT IV : 
At my second visit in December, 190G, the quarry was filled with 
water to within a few feet of the top. This water is said to be mainly 
due to springs and only partly to the rains, and in consequence the water 
remains at a high level right through the hot weather, since the quarry 
has been abandoned. It is by no means certain, however, that all the 
merchantable ore has been extracted, and indeed it seems probable 
that, if the waste-heaps at the east end of the quarry were removed and 
the excavation extended in that direction, an extension of the ore- 
body would be found. At the time of this second visit the waste heaps 
were in part being worked over for the recovery of ore previously thrown 
away, as the prices then permitted of the export of a lower grade ore 
than previously. The excavations to the west of the main quarry were 
again being worked and a certain quantity of ore being won. 
The output from this deposit from 1904 to 1907 
Output. . p 11 ^ 
IS as follows : — 
Year. Long tons. 
1904 2.'m 
1905 
]90G 2,538 
1907 528] 
Previous to 1904 some .30,000 tons are said to have been extracted ; 
but till 1904 the output figures of the different deposits were not kept 
separately. 
21. Khandala. 
(D. Laxminarayan.) 
This deposit is situated a mile east by north from Wsiregaon. The 
outcrop starts from the right bank of the Sur River and is traceable for 218 
paces in a W. 25° S. direction and may be as much as 24 yards wide. The 
outcrop consists of spessartite, quartz, and rhodonite, some of the garnets 
being up to ^ inch in diameter. The spessartite-rock is often partly con- 
verted to manganese-ore and is usually blackened. But there is no- 
where sufficient ore to be worth working, and as far as can be judged from 
the outcrop, this occurrence is of no economic value. One sample taken 
from here by Messrs. Ogilvy, Gillanders & Co., of Calcutta, and analysed 
by E. Riley of London, showed : — 
Manganese . . . . . . . . .37-54 
Iron 5-48 
Silica 24-66 
Phosphorus 0-14 
Moisture ........ 0-36 
The immediate country of the deposit was not seen ; but a little to 
the north and south of the band were outcrops of a white quartz-rock 
(vein-quartz) containing muscovite. 
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