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Old ways in the Kolar gold field

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Present workings at India’s Kolar gold Field are well over 3000 metres deep, surpassed only by some gold mines in South Africa. But the history of gold mining in the region goes back to the early second millenium BC.

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  1. Allchin, F.R.A., ‘Gold mining in ancient India’,Journal of the Economic and Social History of India 1962, (2), 195–211.

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  1. Research Laboratory, The British Museum, WC1B 3DG, London

    P. T. Craddock

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Craddock, P.T. Old ways in the Kolar gold field. Gold Bull 24, 127–131 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03214718

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