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MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF IXDIA : ECONOMICS. [PaRT III : 
by Mr. H. C. McNeill, late of the Central Provinces Prospecting Syndicate ; 
whilst Messrs. Dutt and Burn & Co. retain Ponia, Arjoni, Jam, and 
Ghondi. 
In the Chhindwara district, in addition to the deposits held by the 
Indian Manganese Co., there are one or two 
^fchUndwira?." ^^1*^ S^^b Mathura Prasad of 
Chhindwara, the best of these being Devi, 
discovered in 1903 1. A certain amount of ore has been extracted 
from this deposit, but it is of low grade, and, as far as I know, none 
has been despatched to the railhead. 
During 1906 2 Mr. D. Laxminarayan of Kamthi commenced to 
D. Laxminarayan Xagpur, open up various deposits in the Xagpur, 
Bhandara, and Balaghat). Bhandara and Balaghat districts, some of the 
properties secured being the ends of already-known deposits secured 
by other workers who were earlier in the field. But Parsioni in 
Nagpur, Karli (Asalpani II) in Bhandara, and Ga.raghat, Chikmara, 
and Chaukhandi, in the Balaghat district, are deposits not pre\'iously 
opened up. Laxminarayan claims to have extracted some 36,000 tons 
of ore from these deposits during 1906. 
Central India. 
After the Central Provinces the next area to which attention was 
directed was Jhabua State in Central India, 
(^fbua) ^ The occurrence of manganese-ores in this State 
seems to have been kno^\Ti at least as long ago 
as 1890. The original discoverers were apparently the local native ofl&cials 
who sent the mineral to the Political Agent for the Bhopawar Agency 
to find out what it was. A prospecting Ucense was eventually granted 
to Messrs. Kiddle, Reeve & Co. of Bombay in May 1902, and a mining 
lease over the Kajlidongri deposit was taken out by this firm in May 
1904, The first despatch of ore was in 1903, the amount being 6,800 
tens. This has increased yearly up to 50,073 tons in 1906, the ore being 
derived almost entirely from the KajUdongri deposit. Several other 
deposits have been discovered in this State, but most of them are of little 
value. The manager of Kiddle, Reeve & Co.'s properties is Mr. H. J. 
Winch. 
1 Date of first application for a prospecting licens? — 19th September 1903. 
2 Date of commencement of first prospecting licence — 16th November 1905. 
