SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING
Foot Prints Of Gold Mining Heritage In India
by Dr. Santharam Adibhatla
ISBN Number : 978 - 81 - 949602 - 5 - 6
Authors Details
| Author Name | Image | About Author |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Santharam Adibhatla |  |
Dr. Santharam Adibhatla, earned his M.Sc (Tech) in Applied Geology, Andhra University
and PhD in Mining Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India. He retired
as Regional Mining Geologist, Mining Research Division, Indian Bureau of Mines, Ministry
of Mines in 2010 and rendering professional consultancy to need based mineral Industry
problems. He also served as Honorary Visiting Professor, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam
and Professor of Civil Engineering at ANITS College of Engineering and taught M.Tech
courses in Geotechnical and Rock mechanics Engineering.
He started his career in 1975, with Underground Lead-Zinc Mines of Hindustan Zinc Limited
(Now Vedanta Resources Limited), and gained valuable experience in underground metal
mining practices and ground control problems in deep mining conditions.
Dr. Santharam published 70 research papers in national and international seminars/
conferences and completed 40 nos. of need based consultancy projects for sustainable
mineral development with Indian Bureau of Mines. He was deputed by the Government of
India to BRGM, France. After his retirement he took up consultancy assignments in India,
Oman and in African Countries to address problems on exploration, mining, environment
and sustainable development.
He was associated with the feasibility study of Uti gold mine, Hutti Gold Mines Limited to
improve the productivity by converting from opencast to underground mining method.
He published books on Mining Rock mechanics published by the Indian Bureau of Mines.
The present book on Kolar Gold Fields provides an insight, showcasing the historical and
technical developments that took place including innovative and deep mining techniques. |
Book Description
I would like to express my gratitude to many people for helping directly and indirectly to make this book possible. I am very much grateful for a number of friends and colleagues in encouraging to start this interesting work, preserve it and nally to publish it. I am extremely thankful to Dr. Robert W. Vernon, Professional Geologist, UK, Mr. Melville J. Davies, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, for providing valuable help by providing the research papers and reviewing the manuscript. My thanks to several mining professionals from various organizations, academic institutions who inspired me to write this book which took over 5 years to bring into this form and shape. The very purpose of writing this book is to preserve, explore and share the complex and complicated history of gold mining in India. This all reects acknowledgement that today's “Mining” will be tomorrow's “Mining History and Heritage”. The book has been prepared out of consultation of several published research papers, old mining journals, periodicals, company brochures, handouts, mining history books and related articles available from different Web-resources, and also discussions held from old retired miners, who worked earlier in those mines. Thanks to Mr. K. Ashok Kumar who has shaped the entire book with his computer skills. Nobody has been more important to me in the pursuit of this project than the members of my family. I would like to thank my late parents, whose love and blessings are with me in whatever I pursue. Most importantly, I wish to thank my loving and supportive wife, Ramani and my two wonderful daughters, Kiran and Anasuya, who provided unending inspiration.
