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MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF INDIA : DESCRIPTIVE. [PaRT IV : 
the Bhandiira district. Similarly the Mandri and Panchala deposits are 
probably continuous, the total length of these two deposits being over 2 
miles. It is not known what is the connection between the Manegaon- 
Guguldoho, and the Mandri-Panchala ore-bands. They are roughly paral- 
lel to one another. The Borda deposit lying over 9 miles to the west- 
north-west of the west end of the Mandii deposit is possibly a conti- 
nuation of the Mandri-Panchala band in that direction. This group of 
deposits is served by a branch of the light 2-foot gauge railway construe 
ted by the Central India Mining Company. It is 8 miles from Miinegaon 
to Waregaon and a further 5| miles from Waregaon to Tharsa station, 
Bengal-Nagpur Railway. The railway passes through the Mandri 
deposit. The ores of Panchala and Guguldoho are first carted as far as 
the railway. 
22. Mandri. 
(Central India Mining Company.) 
(See Plate 40.) 
The Mandri manganese- ore deposit is situated some 6 miles north of 
Waregaon. It lies on the north side of the Rilmtek range of quartzite 
hills, and is on the same line of strike as the Borda deposit situated 
about 9| miles to the west-north-west. The accompanying rough 
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Fig. 69.— Sketuh-plnn of ore-bands and hills at Mandri. 
sketch-plan (Fig. 69) shows the relation of the ore-bands, which are two 
in number, to the neighbouring low hills. The schists indicated are 
hornblende and mica-schists, and the quartzites accompanying these 
schists often contain hornblende or pale green mica. The biotite-gneisses 
are often well banded and slickensided. The quartzites forming the two 
small hills on the north-cast side of the ore-bands are viterous, greyish, 
