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A Manual of the Geology of India Economic Geology

1881

That the facts they contain are of the highest importance in connection with the question of the development of the indigenous mineral resources of India will be apparent from the following abstract statement of the value and amount of imports for the official year 1879-80 :— Quantity. [...] commenced that information bringing it up to date would be forthcoing but it had not been received at the time of going to press The map of the coal-fields though merely an index to the larger-scale maps of the sepatiate fields which have been published by the Geological Survey canot fail to prove useful with reference to the alignment of new lines of railway through the country. [...] Besides indirect proof that the east was the source from whence the diamond originally came to Europe definite references to India and in India to the eastern coastal regions make their appearance in the works of the Greeks and Roman;; but it is in Sanscrit literature and naturally so that the first mention of the actual localities is to be found. [...] At the present day there is_a totally distinct tract of hilly country lying to the north of the Godavari river which also bears the name Golconda and formed a portion of the ancient kingdom but it is not now included in the territories of the Nizam of Hyderabad. [...] The order of succession of the roots in the Mahanadi-Godavari tract has not yet been fully ascertained ; but from the fact of the only known localities where the 4amond occurs being situated on the margins of the area it may with a considexable degree of probapility be assumed Part I page 98.
technology medicine science
Pages
696
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.143351
Segment Pages Author Actions
Introduction
i-xx V. Ball view
Chapter I. Diamond—Graphite—Amber
1-58 unknown view
Chapter II. Coal—Peat—Petroleum
59-154 unknown view
Chapter III. Sulphur—Molybdenum—Arsenic—Bismuth—Antimony—Platinum-Mercury
155-172 unknown view
Chapter IV. Gold—Silver
173-238 unknown view
Chapter V. Copper
239-280 unknown view
Chapter VI. Lead
281-311 unknown view
Chapter VII. Zinc—Tin Titanium—Cobalt—Nicieel—Manganese—Chromium
312-334 unknown view
Chapter VIII. Iron
335-420 unknown view
Chapter IX. Aluminium and Cerium Compounds
421-436 unknown view
Chapter X. Magnesium Compounds
437-448 unknown view
Chapter XI. Calcium Barium and Srontium—Compounds
449-474 unknown view
Chapter XII. Sodium and Potassium Compounds
475-501 unknown view
Chapter XIII. Silica
502-515 unknown view
Chapter XIV. Bisilicates Unisilicates and Subsilicates
516-531 unknown view
Chapter XV. Building Stones
532-555 unknown view
Chapter XVI. Miscellaneous
556-571 unknown view
Appendices
572-640 unknown view
Index
641-663 unknown view

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