CHAPTER XXV. 
ECONOMICS & Mimm— continued. 
Value of the Indian Manganese-ore Production. 
Official statistics — The f.o.b. or export value, the true value to India — Tables 
of export values — The c.i.f. or true market values — Comparison of the value 
of India's manganese -ore production with that of other minerals — The ferro- 
mangancse value of the Indian manganese-ore production — Prices of ferro- 
manganese — Taking the ferro-manganese value, the Indian manganese-ore 
production for 1906 is ab ut equal in value to that of coal — Enormous loss to India 
through not manufacturing ferro-manganese. 
It will be interesting to see what is the total value of the manganese 
ore exported every year from India. There are of course several ways 
of stating the value. Manganese-ore possesses one value per ton as 
stacked at the pit's mouth, another as delivered f.o.r. at the railhead, 
a third as delivered f.o.b. on board the ship at the port of shipment, 
a fourth as delivered c.i.f. at the port of destination, and a fifth after 
it has been converted into ferro-manganese. 
With the price at fourteen pence per unit the average value of Central 
Provinces' ore may be taken as : — 
Bs. a. 
19 10 at the pit's mouth. 
21 2 f.o.r. 
30 12 f.o.b. 
43 12 c.i.f. 
The question to which of these values should be made use 
, , , of in the compilation of the mineral statistics 
Oliicial Indian statistics. , 
or India. Ihe ngiu'es tor the exports of 
manganese-ore for every year ending 31st March are given in the Annual 
Statements of Trade and Navigation of British India, and the export 
values of the ore are given also. These figm-es of values are much below 
the true export for /.O.6.) values. In the Statistics of Mineral Production 
in India, issued annually, the export values of the ores are also given ; 
and as in the preceding case these are usually considerably less than the 
true export values. I do not know the exact way in which these figures 
are obtained, but I expect they are based on figures supplied by the 
mining companies exporting the ore. In the following table I give the 
values, stated both in rupees and in sterling, that have been given in 
the Statistics of Mineral Production in India from year to year. 
