RHODONITE. 
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this locality, labelled as braimite with rhodonite, has shown that what 
Mallet took to be rhodonite is reaUy orange spessartite, patches of which 
occur in the midst of the manganese -ore in the specimen exhibited. The 
description of the mineral in the paper itself also points to spessartite 
rather than to rhodonite. Consequently the Mirzapur occurrence must 
be taken as the only one known until Mr. C. S. Middlemiss discovered 
loose blocks of this mineral, blackened externally, scattered on the road 
from Burjavalsa to Chintelavalsa, near Taduru, and near Thonaum, all 
of them in the Vizagapatam district just on the outskirts of the Eastern 
Ghats. This was in the field season of 1903-1904. In the same field 
season I found the same mineral first at Ramdongri and then at many 
other places in the Balaghat, Bhandara, Chhindwara and Nagpur dis- 
tricts in the Central Provinces. The next season I was able to visit the 
occurrences noticed by Middlemiss, with the exception of Thonaum, and 
find the mineral situ : in the same season I also found the mineral in 
the Ganjam district, Madras ; in Jhabua State, Central India, and in 
Narukot State, Bombay. The following is a list of all the known 
occurrences of this mineral in India : — 
Bombay — 
Nanikot State: — Jothvad. 
Central India — 
.Tliabiia : — -Kajlidongri. 
Central Provinces — 
Balaghat : — Cliikmara. Souegaon, Thirori. 
Bhandara : — Kurmura, Asalpani I, A^nlpani II. 
Chhindwara : — Alesur, Bichua, Devi, Gaimukh, Ghoti, Wagora. 
Xagpur: — Peldongri, Chargaon, Ciiguldoho, Junawani, Kandri, Khandala, 
Mandri. ^fandvi Bir, 3Ianegaon. Mansar. Panchala, Parsioni, Ramdongri, 
Risara. S'ata!: II, Sitagondi, Waregaon. 
Madras — 
Ganjam : — Xautan- Barampiir. 
Viyagapatam: — Chintelavalsa. Kantikapilli. Taduru. Thonaum. 
In Bombay, Central India, and the Central Provinces, the rhodonite 
occurs in rocks of the gondite series, and is hence in all probability the 
product of the metamorphism of manganiferous sediments in the way 
explained on page 290. In Ganjam and Vizagapatam the rhodonite 
occurs in rocks that may be the result of solidification from the molten 
condition. That the metamorphic mode of formation is the charac- 
teristic one is shown by the frequency with which this mineral occurs in 
the rocks of the gondite series ; on the other hand, I have never found it 
in the rocks intrusive into the gondite series, where one might expect 
to find it if the mineral were at aU commonly formed by solidification 
from fusion. This same tendency is shown by the fact that rhodonite 
