Kolar Gold Fields
The Kolar Gold Fields one of the major gold mines in India and is located in Kolar district in Karnataka close to IT city Bangalore. It is considered as the world's second deepest Gold Mines.
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A Little History: The existence of the remains of old working had long been known, but it was not untill 1873 that any special attention was directed to them. In that year Mr. M.F. Lavelle, a resident in Bangalore , applied to the Mysore Government for the exclusive privilege of mining in the kolar district. His request having been granted., he commenced operations by sinking a shaft near Urigam ( Oorgaum) in 1875, but, finding that large capital would be required for carrying out the work, he, in the following year, with the approval of the Government, transferred all his rights and concessions to the late Major General G. de la Poer Beresford. this officer, with some friends, formed a syndicate known as the Kolar Concessionaries ( since merged into the Gold Fields of Mysore Co.) who took up the matter in earnest, and acquired from time to time the area known as the Kolar Gold Field.