Journal of Geological Society of India (Online archive from Vol 1 to Vol 78)

Shilpa Patil Pillai ¹, V. V. Peshwa ¹, Sushma Nair ¹, Mukund Sharma ², Manoj Shukla ², Vivek S. Kale ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Geology, University of Pune, Pune 411007, IN
2 Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, Lucknow 226007, IN

Abstract

A manganiferous horizon was recorded near Niralkeri, in an intricately folded quartzite-chert breccia-mudstone sequence of the Simikeri Subgroup in the Kaladgi Basin of Karnataka. The nodules collected from this horizon show the presence of todorokite, vemadite and lithophorite in association with quartz and hematite; with MnO-58%.

Keywords

Economic Geology, Manganese, Proterozoic, Kaladgi Basin, Karnataka.

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