Gayatri ChandrashekarThe pioneering gold mining town in India, Kolar Gold Fields (KGF), has a fascinating history.

Potentially valued at up to Rs 30,000 crore, reports have it that the residues from past mining still contain gold and rare elements like palladium and rhodium. In the recent development, the Print ...

The Kolar Gold Fields got a nod from the British government in 1887, and by 1900 it the region received electricity before Bangalore and Mysore because of requirement of technology at the mine.

Kolar Gold Fields is India's first gold mine since independence. Once known as the "Golden City of India," KGF had remained inactive for decades after being shut down in 2001.

TKGF canhe pioneering gold mining town in India, Kolar Gold Fields (KGF), has a fascinating history. Draining the mines is impossible, say professionals. For the poverty-stricken neighbourhood ...

In the 1950s, Kolar Gold Fields (KGF), a mining region in the Kolar district of Karnataka, was to all appearances a picture-book colonial town with big bungalows, colourful gardens, churches with ...

BENGALURU: Grit and Gold, a book on one of the deepest gold mines -- 11,000 feet -- gives an impetus to the hopes and aspirations to the people of Kolar Gold Fields (KGF). Authored by city-based ...

In order to deliver authenticity onscreen, KGF makers shot at Real location – The Kolar Gold Fields. While accessing the real location, the makers had to recreate Gold mine operations which had ...

The author's home in Kolar Gold Fields The fictional KGF films are set in the 1970s and 80s, by which time the mines were already exhausted and on the brink of closure. It is full of gang wars ...

Kolar Gold Fields is India’s first gold mine since independence. Once known as the “Golden City of India,” KGF had remained inactive for decades after being shut down in 2001. How it started ...