 The Bagla Hills are one of the habitats of the endangered Jentink's duiker.The deposit was first discovered in the 1970s by the now defunct American company Bethlehem Steel.Their preliminary evaluation produced "an ore reserve estimate of 384 million tons of primary ore (magnetite) at 18.1% Fe "[iron]" and about 
90 million tons of haematite ore at 34.3% iron."