Records of the Geological Survey of India, Volume 46The Survey, 1915 - Earthquakes Vols. 1- include Report of the Geological Survey, 1867- ; v. 32- include Review of the mineral production of India, 1898/1903- ; v. 75 consists of Professional papers, no. 1-16; v. 76 consists of Bulletins of economic minerals. |
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Page 278 - Much of the corundum, which is a regular item of trade in the bazaars of cities like Delhi, Agra, and Jaipur, where the Indian lapidary still flourishes, is collected in a casual way by agriculturists and cowherds, who dispose of it through the village bania to the larger dealers of the great cities.
Page 151 - dead-work at a given rate per 1,000 cubic feet of cavity made in the quarry in the case of soft ' deads,' or per 1,000 cubic feet of waste measured in tubs or stacked in the case of hard ' deads.
Page 10 - A country like India must be content, therefore, to pay the tax of imports until industries arise demanding a sufficient number of chemical products to complete an economic cycle, for chemical and metallurgical industries are essentially gregarious in their habits.
Page 240 - Bihar and Orissa, in Bhopal and Rewah States, Central India, in the Satara district, Bombay, and in various parts of the Madras Presidency. The bauxites to which the most attention has been up to the present devoted are those of Balaghat and Jubbulpore. Eight analyses of specimens and samples of the Balaghat bauxites have given results ranging between the following limits
Page 273 - has been, a certain trade in Indian corundum, but the returns for production are manifestly incomplete. No workings exist of the kind that could be ordinarily described as mining, but attempts have been made at times to increase the scale of operations at
Page 158 - Deductions are made from the price of the ore of 15c. per ton for each 1 per cent, of silica in excess of 8 per cent,
Page 101 - and there is hardly a district away from the great alluvial tracts of the Indus, Ganges, and Brahmaputra, in which slag-heaps are not found. For the primitive iron-smelter finds no difficulty in obtaining sufficient supplies of ore from deposits
Page 121 - are by far the most abundant and are of good quality, but vary considerably in the amount of phosphorus that they contain. The following classification seems to be in accordance with the numerous observations so far recorded :— (1) Banded ferruginous-quartz rock which occurs as a common integral component of the Dharwar schists.
Page 273 - In India, where the use of corundum by the old saikalgar (armourer) and lapidary has been known for many generations the requirements of the country have been met by a few comparatively rich deposits, but it is doubtful if these are worth working for export in the face of the competition
Page 54 - Moisture per cent. Volatile matter per cent. Fixed carbon per cent. Ash per cent.