Gold Mining in India: The Way Forward (Special Publication No. 11)
Contents: Foreword/R. H. Sawkar. Preface/V. N. Vasudev, H. M. Ramachandra and N. Rajendran. Part I: Geological Setup and Gold Mineralisation. 1. Geological Setup for Gold Prospects and Deposits in India/S. K. Biswas. 2. Gold in Dharwar Craton: Current Genetic Understanding/Biswajit Mishra. 3. Regional and Deposit Scale Controls of Gold Mineralization in Chitradurga Schist Belt, Dharwar Craton, India/J. P. Mohakul, P. H. Babu R. Madusudanan, S. A. Khan and S. Balakrishnan. 4. Geochemistry of Gold-Hosting Granitoids from Jonnagiri Greenstone Belt, Eastern Dharwar Craton: Implications on Petrogenesis and Gold Mineralization/Sakthi Saravanan Chinnasamy. 5. Characterization of Hydrothermal Alteration at Chigargunta and Bisanatham Gold Deposits, South Kolar Greenstone Belt, Dharwar Craton, India/Debasis Pal, Sakthi Saravanan Chinnasamy and Swapnendu Goon. 6. Evidences of Partial Melting of Sulphides from Ajjanahalli Gold Deposit, Dharwar Supergroup, Karnataka/Madhushree Mandal, Md. Shareef, G. Gopalakrishna and Bijay Kumar. Part II: Gold Exploration and Mineral Resources. 7. Gold Resources of India: Immense Scope for Development of New Gold Mines/V. N. Vasudev. 8. Current Status of Exploration and Resources of Hutti Gold Mines, Hutti-Maski Schist Belt, Karnataka/S. N. Solankar, Venkatesh Murthy N., R. B. Ganesh and Anilkumar B. V. 9. Exploration for Gold near Ajjanahalli, Chitradurga Greenstone Belt, Karnataka/Madhushree Mandal, Bijay Kumar, Parusharama G., Resmi R., Ragikrishna R. and Hampaiah P. 10. Discovery of Open Pittable Ganajur Main Gold Deposit at Ganajur Village, Haveri Taluk and District, Karnataka/Saradchandra Rao Peshwa, V. N. Vasudev and S. B. Harish Kumar. 11. Exploration for Gold and Associated Base Metal Mineralisation in Bhukia Area, Banswara District, Rajasthan/D. B. Guha, R. L. Jat and S. S. Garhia. 12. Current Status of Exploration and Resources of Gold in India: Review of Prospect-Wise Resources Defined by MECL. Part III: New Approaches in Exploration and Mining. 13. Quality Control Practices in Gold Exploration in India: Comparison with the Global Benchmarks/M. K. Devarajan. 14. Anatomy of an Internationally Recognized Mineral Resources and Reserves Public Reporting Standard (CRIRSCO): Critical Comments/P. V. Rao and Abani Samal. 15. Nanogeoscience in Gold Exploration: Challenges and Opportunities in India/Sahendra Singh. 16. Microbial-Enzymatic Gold Nuggetization Process in Extraction of Gold from Old Mill Tailings of Kolar Gold Fields, Karnataka/Rajah Vijay Kumar, Vishaka V. K., Jeevitha G. and Pavithra C. L. 17. Plant-Microbe-Rock Association in Exploration for Gold/S. S. Chandrashekar Math. Epilogue/V. N. Vasudev, H. M. Ramachandra and N. Rajendran.
