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The single largest bedded type barite deposit located in Andhra Pradesh is :
Answer: C
The deposit is at Mangampetta.
Mangampet (Mangampeta) in the Kadapa (Cuddapah) district of Andhra Pradesh is a bedded, stratiform barite deposit in the rocks of the Cuddapah Supergroup and one of the largest single barite deposits in the world. It makes India a major producer of barite, used mainly as a weighting agent in oil-well drilling mud.
Guntur, Hyderabad and Nellore do not host this deposit; Nellore is known instead for mica.
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