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What the 2018 Karnataka polls have to do with Kolar Gold Fields, a mining town that time forgot
Gita Aravamudan • 7 years agoThe voters in Kolar Gold Fields (KGF), the once famous gold mining town, are a disillusioned lot. They have now come to terms with a bitter truth: No political leader has revived the defunct gold mines
Karnataka polls: Sangh Parivar workers feel BJP denied their growth, say party giving tickets to 'tainted' MLAs
Raghuram • 7 years agoPolitical analysts have already declared that it will be a hung assembly in Karnataka, but BJP does not think that will be the case. National spokesperson Sambit Patra declined to quote an estimate of the seats the party sees itself winning.
Move over Unnao, gold is here at Kolar and it's no dream
Fp Staff • 11 years agoAccording to news reports, around 3,000 employees of Bharat Gold Mines Ltd (BGML), which owned KGF, were laid off in 2001 when the government shut down the mines saying they were economically unviable.
Can gold prices revive Karnataka's Kolar fields?
Fp Archives • 13 years agoKolar Gold is currently valued by the stock market at about $40 million.In their heyday, the mines were producing about 42 grams of gold per tonne of rock.