Minerals and Metals in Ancient India v1.c11.s6.t20.2

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The Indian occurrences of löllingite are (a) Sampthar hill, Darjeeling (arsenic pyrites), (b) Dabur and Dhab in the Hazaribagh district, Bihar and Orissa; lumps of leucopyrite are occassionally found in the mica-bearing pegmatites. Recently leucopyrite was found in the Gamaria mica mine and löllingite in the Durria mica mine, of the Kodarma Forest area, Hazaribagh, (c) Barali, Padar District of Bhutna Valley, Kashmir (arsenopyrite), (d) Chitral N.W.F. province. Orpiment in the past was imported in considerable quantities from Chitral, (e) Arsenical pyrite has been mined at Manikaran in the district of Kangra, Punjab, (f) On the Dharma and Juwar or Niti Ghats in the Almora district (‘yellow arsenic’, i.e., orpiment), (g) Mansiari, Uttar Pradesh, Himalaya—small quantities of orpiment are brought down for sale to the Bagesar Fair, (h) Shankalpa Glacier, Uttar Pradesh, Himalaya. Arsenic is brought into Kabul from Herat. In Asia Minor, arsenic pyrites and orpiment and realgar are known to occur in several places. In the northern Persia, orpiment and realgar occur in the region of Caspian sea, in the Khurdistan mountains and on Kaflan-kuh.