| The manufacture of various salts and cobalt metal itself
has not been possible because of no rich Cobalt Ore in India.
Cobalt metal and its salts have always been imported. Heron
in Geological Survey of India 1935 reports "A few years back
specimens of a inatter containing 11-14% cobalt, rest iron and
sulphur were received in Geological Survey Office of India from
Nepal; but no details as to the mode of occurrence have ever
been forthcoming." In another publication1 an output of 5
tons of cobalt ore eontaining 14. 4% of cobalt and 5 tons of
speiss containing 22 .1~% of cobalt was. reported from 'Nepal.
In 1936-37, 2 an ore with 4. 59% cobalt was reported. |
