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MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF INDIA : DESCRIPTIVE. [ParT IV 
According to Mr. Goodchild, about half a mile south of the Kaskuri 
workings there is another patch of loose ore derived from what must 
be a second band of limestone parallel to the main 
baud. 11 IS near the place marked on the Forest 
Survey map as Teli Deo. Mr. Goodchild refers to these as the Teli Deo 
workings, Teli Deo being situated at the point indicated. It is probable, 
according to Mr. Vredenburg, that Teli Deo has been mistaken for Bhana- 
deo, which is the name given to a small hill close to the southern band 
near the Kund Nilla ; the southern band being only J to J mile south 
of the Kaskuri band. ' A good deal of ore is found lying in the 
bed of the stream. Just above the stream where a few pits have been 
mjide, the limestone has been laid bare standing in pillars with nodules 
of ore ' both in situ in the pillars and embedded in the clay filling the 
spaces betwe n them. A sample, Q. taken from these pits gave the fol- 
1 owing analysis : — 
Manganese . . . . . . . . . 51'24: 
Iron . . . . . . . . . . 3'75 
Silica . . 7-ri5 
Phosphorus 0-049 
No manganese-ores have been reported for the length of about 1 
mile between the Kaskuri workings and Junawani C, but no doubt 
manganiferous limestones and nodules of manganese-ore exist. 
Mr. Vreden urg's specimens show that the rocks associated with 
the manganiferous limestone in the Kaskuri and Bhanadeo bands are 
the same as in the Mandvi Bir and Junawani portions of the area, the 
limestones being underlain by epidosites and epidote-gneisses and these 
in their turn by quartz-pyroxene.gneisses, whilst they are overlain 
by quartz-pyroxene-gneisess. Mr. Vredenburg found, however, that 
there is often some mica-schist intervening be'. ween; he limestone and 
these underlying epidotic rocks. Owing, moreover, to the reappear, 
ance of epidosites at Ghatmara Deo about ^ mile to the south of the 
Bhanadeo band, he thinks that the structure of the rocks in this 
neighbourhood is to be explained by folding, so that the Kaskuri and 
Bhanadeo bands correspond to the same bed of ore and mangani- 
ferous limestone, as already explained on page 967. He notes also that 
hematite occurs in the north-east pit on the Kaskuri band on Junapani 
hill in association with the manganese- ore, as at Mandvi Bir. 
32. Rajkota. 
At a distance of about 2 miles to the east of the main road from 
Nagpur to Jabalpur, and practically on the continuation of the Mandvi 
Bir-Junapjlni band of manganifero' s limestones, there is a hill named 
Rajkota. Specimens brought from here by Mr. Vredenburg show the 
