How an Irish soldier’s dreams of gold shook a Karnataka town
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How an Irish soldier’s dreams of gold shook a Karnataka town

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In 1956, nine years after Independence, the Kolar gold mines were nationalized. There were old vessels, digging implements, and remnants of fire inside those pits indicating that those miners had used a traditional method called “fire-blasting” to crack the rocks and dig out the gold ore. In 1880, The Mysore Mine Company hired the British engineering firm, John Taylor and Sons, who had successfully established gold mines in Africa. Bharat Gold Mines Limited continued mining here for another 35 years.

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How the British struck gold in this Karnataka mining town
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How the British struck gold in this Karnataka mining town

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In the 1950s, Kolar Gold Fields, a mining region in the Kolar district of Karnataka, was to all appearances a picture-book colonial town with big bungalows, colourful gardens, churches with steeples and a sprawling clubhouse surrounded by a golf course. As for the native miners, they still lived in crowded ‘Lines’, mostly across the railway track which separated the mining …

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