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MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF INDIA : DESCRIPTIVE. [ Part IV 
as a maximum, and in other places not more than six inches ; hence 
tho profitable working of the deposit would be quite out of the ques- 
tion, even if the ore were of first rate quality, and even if the deposit 
were not 30 miles from the railway. 
The various workings have exposed the ore-bed for about 200 yds. 
in a N. E. direction. About 100 yds. to the N. of the deposit 
occurs streaked gneissose granite, the relations of which to the ore- 
deposit are not apparent. 
About half a mile S. 10°E. from the above deposit a pit in a rice 
field had exposed 4 feet or so of a loose gravel 
Manganese-la terite. 
01 granules oi manganese-ore averagmg t to 
2 inch in diameter, mixed with granules of quartz and limonite, and 
resting below on decomposed whitish felspar-quartz-rock, often traversed 
by manganiferous veins, or pseudomorphed into chalcedony. About 50 
yards S. S. W. of the above pit some manganese-laterite has been 
found extending for some yards and occurring to a depth of 2| feet or 
so, resting below, according to Mr. Chaudry, on debris of felspar, quartz, 
and limonite, fragments of which can also be seen included in the 
laterite in places. This laterite consists in the main of granules of wad 
and psilomelane set in a ferruginous clay and is apparently the same 
material as the above-mentioned loose granules, here cemented together. 
The source of the manganese was not to be seen, but this occurrence 
may perhaps be indicative of another band of manganese -garnet-bear- 
ing rock below the surface. 
2. Gudhiapi. 
About 50 or 100 yards W. of N. from the E. end of the range of 
gneissose granite hills occuriing to the S. W. of Gudhiari village, the 
usual manganese-ore granules are to be seen scattered about through 
a yellow-brown sandy soil. 
3. Nautan-Barampup. 
Ninety paces N. 20^E. from the road from. Kalikot to Eoirani, at 
about the mile-stone -, a pit, 6 feet deep, shows large boulders and 
fragments of garnet-rhodonite-rock, often with a little quartz, and 
exactly like the similar rock found so frequently in the Nagpur district 
of the Central Provinces, except that in this case there are often little 
strings and patches of a light blue-green mineral (apatite) and occasional 
