Shanmukha, the department official in-charge in KGF, told TNM that one of the reasons why mining operations shut down on February 28, , was due to lack of adequate technology to optimise the cost of mining. Besides, the gold extracted from KGF was sold exclusively to the Reserve Bank of India at rates less than the market value, which had rendered the operations unprofitable. A senior official with MECL said that using laser mining technology, mining operations could once again begin and the Karnataka government would make profits close to Rs 1, crore as the technology would cut out many operational costs that existed in Besides, the Karnataka government is planning on not just selling the gold exclusively to RBI, but fall in line with the operations at Hatti Gold Mines, where the gold is sold to buyers at market value.
A long-standing demand in KGF was to generate employment. Dr Unnikrishnan, former Chief Finance Manager and advisor to the Union Ministry of Mines, with years experience in gold mining operations, said that reopening the deep mines will not be a simple task as the essential infrastructures like hoists, winding engines, runners, underground air conditioning and the special power generation plant in the existing plant needs a complete revamp.
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Some Advice Do not venture alone into any abandoned mine or mine shaft. My first major rock burst experience in changed my childish perception of life in KGF. I was five and had just joined St. Early one morning a rock burst shook our picture postcard town so hard that my school was destroyed and the adjoining church and a couple of other buildings crumbled.
My parents carried me and rushed out of the house while plaster rained all around us and some furniture tottered and fell.
The scenes in front of the mine close to our house were heartrending. Anxious families gathered there waiting to hear what happened to their men trapped inside. Our maid was wailing because her brother was in the mine.
My mother told me that when the school collapsed, the French and Irish nuns who were praying in the chapel were trapped and had to be rescued by their cook who kicked open the door. Twenty men died in that rock burst and 10 more in another, two months later. A rock burst occurs in deep mines when mining operations create fissures, which release tremendous pressure. This can cause rocks to actually explode, almost like bombs. It can also trigger the abrupt movement of adjacent geological structures causing tremors on the surface, like a mini earthquake.
Over the years, I learnt to follow the rock burst drill. Whenever there was a tremor, everyone would rush out of homes, offices and schools and stand in the open, praying for the men working inthe mine.
To me, at that time, it seemed like he was doing something brave and dangerous. Many years later I asked him how he felt about it. He told me he hated the thought of all that gold being lost to our country forever. But he had a job to do, and he really had no say in the matter. By then, I was a journalist, and I was digging into the government archives in Bangalore to find out more about the history of the mines.
It will result in a certain amount of wealth being taken out of the country which can never be replaced. Wise words of caution which governments over the decades have never paid heed to. By the time the mines were nationalized in , all the high- quality gold had gone.
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