Copper and subordinate molybdenum mineralization at Malanjkhand occurs within a
fracture-controlled quartz-reef enclosed in a pink granitoid body surrounded by grey-
granitoids constituting the regional matrix. Sulfide-bearing stringers, pegmatites with only
quartz+ microcline and sulfide disseminations, all within the pink-granitoid, represent other
minor modes of occurrences. Despite this diversity in mode of occurrence, the mineralogy of
ores is quite consistent and conform to a common paragenetic sequence comprising an …

Sikka's (1971) report was an unpublished company-report based on drilling data from the
Geological Survey of India which first carried out subsurface exploration in the late 1960's.
As such, the work by Nath et al.(1973) was cited as the first published account on
Malanjkhand mineralization. As the title of our paper indicates, the exploration history,
reserve/resource estimates, categorization of reserves etc. were not central to our theme,
and we quoted from Sikka (1989) the identified reserve of a particular grade of ore down to a …