Mining industry

Records at the British Library

Science and the Changing Environment in India 1780-1920: A Guide to Sources in the India Office Records by Richard Axelby and Savithri Preetha Nair 2009. The guide is arranged in eleven chapters including one in respect of geology. Available through Amazon.co.uk from the FIBIS Shop

"Fire-Hearted Pebbles from Burma" by C.M. Enriquez, reprinted from Asia Magazine, October, 1930, Vol. 30, No. 10, pp. 722–725, 733. , is about the ruby mines of Burma and the Burma Ruby Mines Company. Palagems.com
Khewra Salt Mines of Pakistan 14 June 2007 All Things Pakistan

Selections from the Records of the Government of Bengal: no 6: Report on the Tin and Other Mineral Productions of the Tenasserim Provinces 1852 Archive.org
Madras District Gazetteers: The Nilgiris by W Francis 1908 Archive.org, page 13 (computer page n23) gives a history of gold mining in the area around Wynaad in the Nilgiris which had been abandoned by the early 1900’s. Mentions the Alpha Gold Mining Company, the Phoenix, Balcarres and Richmond mines and the Indian Glenrock (Wynaad) Co.
The Mining engineer Volume 32 1906-1907, page 203 (computer page n284) mentions the Giridih Coal- Field, Bengal
"The Giridih Coal Fields" by Rudyard Kipling 1891 eBooks@Adelaide.
- Article about The Giridih Coal Fields from Kipling.org.uk