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I.—Precious Stones and Metals THE concluding volume of the Manual of the Geology of India was issued from the Calcutta Press towards ihe last days of 18gi, and a supply of copies may now any day be expected to arrive in London. This volume, published by order of the Government of India, brings to a worthy conclusion a most remarkable work, in which we find a general geological sketch map of nearly the whole of India, a. descriptive account of its various formations, and a history of those geological products therein found which are of importance to mankind. When we stop to think of the immense area explored, of the enormous amount of details that had to be collected and sorted, of the dangers and trials which vrere encountered during the investigation of much of the country that had to be explored, we confess to being struck with amazement at the energy, zeal, and courage of the comparatively very small stiff employed by our Government an this service, and we feel sure that those labouring in European or American fields will be the first to acknowledge how much is owing to the Geological Survey of India for the quality as well as the quantity of the owdrk done by them in the plains of Asia.
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"A Manual of the Geology of India. Part III. Economic Geology." By V. Ball. M.A., K G.S., Omciating Deputy Superintendent, Geological Survey of India. Published by order of the Government of India. (Calcutta, 1881.)
Vol. iv. p. 225.
Thok Sarlung had at one time been the chief gold-field of the district, "but had in a great measure been abandoned on the discovery of the Thok Jarlung gold-field. The Pundit passed a great excavation some 30 to 40 feet deep, 200 feet in width, and two miles in length, from which the gold had been extracted." -Jour. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xxxix., Pt. 2, p. 53, 1870.
Pall Mall Gazette, March 16, 1869, quoted in "Indian Antiquary," p. 225.
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Economic Geology of India 1 . Nature 25, 508–510 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/025508c0
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