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MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF INDIA: ECONOMICS. [PaRT III : 
ores and manganese- ores at Ghogra in the Jaba'pur district in the 
production of a steely iron known as Men' is noticed on page 595, and 
of the ores of Gosalpur in the same district by local glass-blowers on 
page 600. 
Uses of this sort have doubtless given rise to the several names that 
the ores of this mineral are at one time or 
Veraacular names for -^j ^ possessed among the inha- 
inanganese-ore. i & ^ ^j^^ 
bitants of various parts. The following is a 
list :— 
Table 25. 
List of vernacular names for manganese-ore. 
Nam-!. 
Locality or 
Language. 
Kolsa-ka-patthar 
Ingani, Injani, Tnjni 
Jugni 
Nijni 
MisRi sivah 
Iddali kalhi 
Ukkina kallu 
Sudda 
Surma 
Waral 
Dharwar. 
Punjab. 
Kanarese. 
Sandur. 
Vizagapaf am. 
Matabaleshwar. 
Authority. 
Xewbold.l 
Powell. 2 
Balfour. 3 
Fermor. 
Carmichael.4 
Crozier.5 
Fermor. 
' When Newbold visited the manganese-ore deposit of Chik-Vadvati 
in the Kappatgudda range in Sangli State, somewhere about 1840 6, 
he went in the expectation of finding coal ; for the inhabitants said 
there was kolsd-kd-patthar, or ' charcoal-stone, ' at this place. Instead 
he found manganese-ore. He says : — 
• The guides pointed out some partially obliterated excavations which the old 
inhabitants of the village stated to me had been made by the agents of Hyder & 
Tippoo. • 
He suggests that the report of the existence of 'charcoal-stone ' 
must have led the agents of these Mysorean princes to this spot, doubt- 
less with as much disappointment as in his own case. Hence the term 
1 Jour. Boy. A.S. Soc, VII. p. 212, (1843). 
2 'Punjab Products', J, pp.' 2.'), 100, 113, (1868). 
3 Cyclopwdia of India, II, p. 845, 3rd edition, (1885). 
4 Vizagapatam District Manual, p. 155, (1869). 
•■> ' On the iron ores, etc., of the Madras Presidency', Madras, (1855), pp. 239, 240. 
0 Jour. Boy. As. Soc, VII, pp. 212—214, (1842). 
