1134 MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF INDIA : DESCRIPTIVE. [ PaRT IV: 
the district, at distances of 5 to 12 miles. The nearest of these to the 
railway is probably Itigehalli, which if? about 28 miles distant by road. 
The first four are held by the Shimoga Manganese Company, Limited, 
and the fifth by Mr. C. N. Surya Narayana Row of Bangalore. I have 
no information about the mode of occurrence or extent cf these deposits. 
II — The Ayanup Group. 
All the deposits of this group given on page 1133 are held by the 
New Mysore Manganese Company, Limited, which has been granted a 
preferential right over all the deposits within a 13 miles' radius of 
Ayanur, till the end of December 1909 (see page 429). The nearest of 
these to the railway is Aladhalli — 9 miles from Shimcga — and the 
farthest is Tuppur — about 24 miles from shimoga station. 
6. TuppuF. 
I have not visited this deposit : but Mr. Fawcitt tells me it is situ- 
ated on a hill just to the south-west of the village. A specimen cf dull 
grey psilomelane from here analysed by Mr. Fawcitt showed : — 
Manganese 3210 
Iron 2811 
Silica 2-03 
Phosphorus 0 06o 
7. ShOPt's Block. 
This also I did not visit. It is now worked out according to 
Mr. Fawcitt and consisted of four occurrences of ore situated in the hills a 
mile or so to the north-west of Kumsi, 2 on each side of the Shimoga- 
Anantapur road. Analyses by Mr. Fawcitt, of two samples represent- 
ing 1,500 and 1,000 tons of ore, respectively, are as follows : — 
No. 1. No. 4. 
Manganese 42-32 39 16 
Iron 12-04 9-91 
Silica 5-53 10-46 
Phosphorus 0008 0019 
