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The total exports of ore from the port of Mormugiio up to tlio 3Jst 
March 1907 amounted to 70,749 tons. Now* the total of Mytore and 
Sandur ores exported through this port up to the end of 1906 was about 
50,000 tons ; hence, allowing for the amount that must have been ex- 
ported during the first quarter of 1907, it seems very doubtful if anyGoa 
ore had been exported up to 31st March 1907. When I visited Mor- 
mugaoin November 1907, however, there was a certain amount of ore 
lying on the stacking ground that was said to have been railed from 
Collem and Sanvordem stations on the West of India Portuguese Rail- 
way. 
And I am informed by the British Consul at Goa that 99,962 tons 
of manganese-ore were shipped from Mormugao during the year ending 
March 31st, 1908. Of this, some 7,000 to 8,000 tons represent the pro- 
duce of Goa. 
Perhaps 15,000 tons were mined in Goa during the same year. 
The regulations for the grant of rights to work minerals in Portu- 
guese India are of course different from those 
in Gol^™"* in force in British India. Mr. A. Ghose, who 
has had special opportunities of becoming ac- 
quainted with their intricacies whilst acting as agent to Messieurs 
Jambon & Cie., tells me that the following is a rough outline of the 
process that a would-be concessionaire has to go through : — 
On finding a deposit an application for a manifest (manifesto) has to 
be sent in. A claim thus manifested can be demarcated only after the 
expiration of at least three months from the date of granting of the 
manifest, and then only when the Government Mining Engineer is 
satisfied that the mineral sought for is actually in existence in the 
area. After demarcation a plan of work is given by the Mining 
Engineer to the owner of the claim on payment of a special fee to the 
demarcator, who may be the Mining Engineer himself or any authorized 
engineer or surveyor of the Government. One year after the date of 
the demarcation a full mining concession is granted. Work can start 
frora the date of the manifest; but export cannot take place until the 
date of the mining concession, unless special sanction be obtained, 
but in no case before the grant of the plan of work. 
