Ito, Osaka City University, Japan, performed experimental studies on proton decay and indirectly observed the scatter of muons. During 1984, Naba Kumar Mondal, TIFR, and Prof. Ramana Murty (also spelled Ramanamurty in some occasions), the trio sometimes called MNR, and sponsored by TIFR. These were followed by experiments in 1961 by S. The first experiments involving variations of muon fluxes (a measurement of muons passing through a given media) with depth was conducted by B. The mines had abundance of Kolar rock whose special characteristics with respect to density and chemical composition (different from that of normal rock) were also a useful advantage in the experiments. KGF also allowed the scientists to study the energy spectrum and angular distributions of muons even at very high energies. KGF was chosen because the depths of its mines allowed muons to be studied in a better environment than what was possible with magnet spectrometers operated at sea level. The move is part of a larger exercise wherein six gold mines have already been auctioned by the States in the last five years under the provisions of Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) (MMDR) Act, 1957.The initial experiments that took place in KGF were related to the study of cosmic ray muons. The erstwhile Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction (BIFR), which was a development finance institution of the Ministry of Finance, had issued an order on June 12, 2000, ordering to wind up BGML. The empowered committee had gone into past hurdles such as inability to execute a 2006 Cabinet decision of selling BGML assets due to litigation.

Alternatively, rail network to connect the two metros will also give a fillip to the Centre's plan of having an industrial hub at the land, said sources.Įarlier, the Ministry had constituted a monitoring committee comprising chiefs of MECL and BGML and officers from the Geological Survey of India, IBM and the ministry itself to get a legal review, asset valuation and hiring of technical consultant for conducting a techno-economic feasibility report (TEFR) and management consultant to suggest the way forward.

Mines Secretary Vivek Bhardwaj had led a delegation of officials from the Centre and State governments to the Kolar mines on Wednesday to figure out an early solution for rolling out the process of gold mining and monetisation of the land along the Bengaluru-Chennai highway. Explorations done by the Mineral Exploration and Consultancy Limited (formerly Mineral Exploration Corporation Limited) in 2018 revealed that block Mc Taggart possesses 1.044 million tonnes (mt) of gold resources with grade of 2.97 g/tonne

Kolar gold fields