Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Gold Rush in Banswara [:D]

Well I wanted to blog about this mind boggling discovery that happened in Banswara district of Rajasthan from a long time.

Okay if you are wondering what Banswara is all about well , then its a small district town located in southern Rajasthan bordering Gujarat on the south east and Madhya Pradesh on the north west. Its the place where I was born. Its been a lethargic town with SCST ( bhil tribes) being the majority and few Muslims and hindu business owners. Well can write a whole book about it but no thats not the issue we are discussing.

As per the Hindu article:

http://www.hindu.com/2005/03/04/stories/2005030408550500.htm

2.5 crore tonne Gold deposits have been located in Bhukia-Jagpura village in Banswara District.

Also as per http://mines.nic.in/archp3gsi.html
Exploration for Gold in Bhukia (E) Banswara district, Rajasthan has indicated a tentative resource of 7 m.t. of gold ore with an average grade of 2 g/t.

Well with incessant rain, Banswara is already referred to as the Cherrapunji of Rajasthan, very soon if the gold strikes hopefully, we will be known as the Yosemite valley of India.

2 comments:

Tomas Creo said...

Hati.. u are one rich kid when they start digging out gold from ur own backyard. Is it too late for any of us to invest in more land in Banswara?

Anonymous said...

lets just strip mine the whole place!!