Chap. XXVI] 
TALUS-ORE DEPOSITS. 
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of the ore dumped immediately by the side of the pit, usually on ore- 
bearing ground not yet turned over, and the whole then abandoned, 
though it may be but temporarily. To win the ore now covered up 
will cost more than if the waste had been carried to a safe distance ; 
and in some cases the cost of removing this overburden will doubtless 
be considered too great to permit of the working of the ground under- 
neath. In the other case, in a deposit lying to the south-west of Bale- 
katte and north of Shiddarhalli village, the ground had been divided 
into strips 5 or 6 feet wide as illustrated in figure 37. Alternate strips A 
were being worked. The method adopted was to excavate the C end 
of the strip to as great a depth as was considered payable — some 5 or 
6 feet in this case — and remove the waste from tliis to a safe distance. 
The remainder of the strip was worked over by men advancing from 
C towards A and pulling down with kodalis, into the cavity already 
made, the ground in front of them. In this way they worked along 
the whole strip, extracting the loose pieces of ore as they turned them 
A A A A 
Fig. 37. — Systematic plan of working detritnl deposits. 
up, and raking the loose soil behind them, women being employed to 
remove a certain proportion of this soil so as to keep the trench 
sufficiently open. When the A strips had been worked over, then the 
B strips were to be treated in the same way. The reason for working 
alternate strips was probably the convenient disposal of the ore won, 
and the convenient access of the coolie women who removed the 
ore and waste. It struck me that this was the best and most systematic 
method I had yet noticed of working detrital deposits. It must be 
observed that in this case the only object was to win the loose frag, 
ments of ore, for there was no reason for supposing that the detritus 
overlay manganese-ore in situ. In the latter case, it would have been 
necessary to remove all the soil to a distance. These detrital deposits, 
when of large extent, would seem to be admirably suited for treatment 
on the lines of the Northamptonshire iron-ore deposits, i.e., by working 
