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MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF INDIA: DESCRIPTIVE. [ ParT IV 
fortunate to be in the area during the monsoon before the grass had 
grown very long again after being burnt down in the previous hot 
weather. 
Starting from No. 40 (Pam-kollatha Tattu), situated about J mile 
N. W. of Kamataru village, a line of deposits runs for about li miles 
across the Kamataru plateau to No. 52 (Alada-marada Banda), 
situated at the apex of a triangle or bay of low ground that projects up 
from the south into the southern edge of the Sandur Hills. At this 
point the line of deposits branches. One branch continues the previous 
line for If miles further— along the S. W. edge of the S. E. spur of 
the Sandur Hills, which forms the N. E. side of the triangle — as far as 
deposit No. 59 (Janal Haruvu). 
The total length of the N.W.-S.E.-running line of deposits is 
therefore a little over three miles, and it is possible that several 
of the deposits along this line represent one band of replaced rock and 
will be found to be continuous beneath the soil orlaterite when they are 
opened up. Howevei, they cannot all represent one band of replaced 
rock ; because in more than one place there are two or even three 
parallel outcrops, which have been entered up as separate deposits. 
But probably the replacement of three bands of rock would explain the 
occurrence of the whole of the deposits. 
The other line of deposits branches off at right angles and runs 
S. W. along the S. E. edge of the Kamataru plateau, starting 
with No. 6() (Jogannaditha Kolla), and ending up with No. 60 
(Hanumanthana Kativi) situated about 1| miles S. W. of the branching 
point. 
Nearly all the Kamjitaru outcrops, when broken open, show the hard 
compact psilomelane, frequently with the included magnetite grains, 
and with usually only a comparatively small amount of associated wad. 
The ores of this area will therefore probably turn out to be of higher 
average grade than those of the Rsvmandrug area. These ores, also, 
sometimes show pseudo-manganite, pyrolusite, and the hard grey 
crystalline mineral. 
Because the Kamataru deposits had not been opened up and show 
a remarkable similarity to one another as far as outcrops go, and 
because I was able to examine them only very cursorily, I shall notice 
the more striking only of the ones I visited. 
