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as manager in India ; the first prospecting license was applied for on 21st 
September 1899. "Work was started on the Mansar deposit towards the 
end of 1899, and the first shipment took place in the spring of 1900, when 
the price of manganese- ore was 14 pence per unit. From an output of 
47,257 tons l in 1900, the output of the Central Provinces Prospecting 
Syndicate from this district has risen to 93,032 tons in 1906. In Sep- 
tember 1901 this same syndicate started work on a very large deposit 
near Balaghat to^vTi in the district of the same name, and has since then 
extended its operations to other deposits in the same district ; in 1903 
the sjTidicate started work in the Bhandara district on the Chikhla (I) 
and Kurmura deposits 2. Starting with 47,2-57 tons in 1900 (from 
the Nagpur district only), the total production of this syndicate from 
these three districts in the Central Pro\dnces has so increased that it 
reached the enormous total of 223,823 tons in 1906, this being more than 
1 of the total output of the world for that year. The syndicate has now 
been registered as a limited liability company. 
The success of this syndicate soon led others to prospect the same areas 
H. D. Coggan, Jambon in the Central Provinces for further deposits, 
and Cie and the Central ^^th the resultant discovery of a large number 
India Mining Company, • i i t 
Limited (Na^pur and pre\nously unknown. In the beginning of 1902 3 
Bbardara). Messrs. Charles Jambon and Cie., of Calcutta, 
started work on several deposits discovered through the agency of 
Mr. H. D. Coggan, and during 1902 and 1903 opened up the following 
deposits in the Nagpur district : — Satak, Parsoda, Mandri, Manegaon, 
Waregaon, Kacharwahi, and Pali. The output for the first year, 
1902, was 15,423 tons. In January 1904 a company styled The 
Central India Manganese Company, Limited, was formed to continue the 
work of Jambon and Cie, Messrs. Killick, Nixon & Co., of Bombay, 
being the agents and Mr. Coggan contintiing as general manager. The 
nominal capital of this company is Rs. 4,00,000, of which 2 lakhs were 
paid to the vendors and 1 lakh to the promoter's syndicate. In 1905 
this company started to open up various properties in the Bhandara 
district, namely Kosumbah, Sukli, Hatora, and Miragpur. The out- 
put of this company for 1906 was 83,964 tons. 
1 This is the figure given me by t.he manager of the C. P. P. S. The figure returned 
in the mineral statistics is 3.5,350 tons. 
2 Several of the Bhandara deposits, namely Sitapathur, Miragpur, Kumuira, Chikhla 
I, Sitasaongi, and Asalpani I, were discovered by ilr P. X. Datta, of the Geological 
Survey, in 1893-94 ; but the results were not made public. 
3 Pate of first application for a prospecting license — 2Qd December, 1901. 
