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Belgaum District.—Mr. Foote (Joe. cit.) mentions
several localities in this district where gold was formerly washed
for, or was reported to occur, in the sands of various streams. It
appears to have been derived from quartz reefs which traverse some
chloritic schists and pseudo-diorite. In certain localities gold is
still obtained in small quantities, but the district does not appear to
be one of much promise.
The gold-washers (Jalgars) are stated to be Ma-homedans, which is exceptional, probably they are converts.
In reference to this district Mr. Foote* has also written a follows :—
Gold
is found in very small quantities in some of the streams flowing into
the upper part fof the Malprabha, from both sides, through a region
occupied by chloritic schists, with rather poor haematite schist
intervening.
The
exact source of the gold supply remains to be determined. The yield is
so exceedingly small that these streams are now but very rarely visited
by the yalgars, or gold-washers. Very few quartz veins occur in
this region, and none were noticed with a north to south course. A
small stream a little westward of the village of Belowaddi appears to
be the most auriferous, but I failed in getting an appreciable
quantity of gold in a number of carefully-selected samples of sand and
gravels collected in promising places in the bed.
BENGAL.
Using the term Bengal in its widest acceptation the gold-producing areas included in it may be classified as follows :—
1. Central Provinces.
2. Orissa.
* " Memoirs Geological Survey of India," vol. xii. p. 259.
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