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2. Nodular clay-ironstones, and thin beds of it, at Tiru- 
gaon and Tel Pung-Brahmaputra Valley, in Upper 
Assam, yielding 22 to 40 per cent of iron. Old 
manufacture of large cannon in the 16th century : 
metal thick ; gun 17 feet long. 
3. Pandua : iron ores, magnetic. 
4. Cherrapunji : iron sands, composed of minute crystals 
of titaniferous magnetic oxide, obtained by surface 
raking of partly decomposed granite. It is suitable 
for making wutz, knives, and hooks. 
B altar and Bengal. 
Birbhum. Partly earthy and partly magnetic oxides of iron 
disseminated in soapy trappean claystone, at Ballia, 
Deocha, Dunora, and Goanpur ; an ore containing 
46 per cent of iron, up to 60. 
Monghir.— Bhimband (Karakpur Hills) : lateritic ores, and 
thin bands in schists. 
Raniganj. Ironstone shales between the coal-bearing strata 
(Raniganj and Barakar groups), yielding 24 to 69 per 
cent of iron in ore chosen. 
Manbhum. Small quantities of magnetic iron-sand ; iron- 
stone shales and ferruginous concretions from shale- 
beds and sandstones ; bedded magnetites on the 
Kasai. 
Hazaribagh. — Ironstone shales. 
Rewah. Ore from Coal-measure rocks in Singrauli, and at 
Hindawa. 
Bundalkhand . — 
1. Lower lateritic ore near Simereah. 
2. Red haematite, subcrystalline from the Bijawar series 
of rocks. 
Gualior. Manganiferous red iron ore ; magnetic ores ; man* 
ganiferous brown iron ore : siliceous haematites : all 
extensively worked in ancient times. 
Banda.— Old mines at Goharbai, Deori, and Khirani. 
Lalatpur . — 
1. Sulda : pure haematite. 
2. Pura : ores, steely, and yielding kheri. 
Bijawar. — Ancient large manufacture at Hirapur. 
Panna. — Old mines. 
Indor and Malwa. — Old steel-mines mentioned in the Ain-i- 
Akbari ; present information none. 
