Kolar Gold Field mining

During the 1950s, Kolar Gold Fields (KGF), a mining locale in the Kolar area of Karnataka, was to all appearances an image book pioneer town with huge cabins, beautiful nurseries, houses of worship with steeples and a rambling clubhouse encompassed by a green. Just the tall mining shafts jabbing out like needles across the scene separated it from other comparable towns which spotted our country. And afterward there were the hillocks of the lingering waste from the plants which ground the gold-loaded metal. These hillocks, known as the cyanide dumps, were the other significant tourist spots of our mining town. 

My dad was a bookkeeper. He was among the initial not many Indian officials to be recruited by the mining organization. At the point when we moved to KGF in 1950, we lived in a little home with a tree-filled nursery in the mining region. We were nearly inside contacting distance of the Champion Reef Mine, which had the most profound shaft on the planet. I could hear the wheels of the cranes on the shaft pivoting hectically as they worked the lifts conveying the men and the mineral all through the mine. 

It was an existence of differences. It nearly seemed like we had arrived in a type of outsider fairyland. The mines were as yet possessed by John Taylor and Co, a British mining organization, which had rented the land from the Maharaja of Mysore (presently Mysuru) and began mining activities in 1880. More than 70 years, the British sahibs had made themselves truly agreeable and made for themselves an extravagant way of life which included completely outfitted quarters, similar to the one we lived in, and workers to tend to them in every way under the sun.