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*''Travels in India by Jean Baptiste Tavernier, baron of Aubonne, tr. from the original French edition of 1676, with a biographical sketch of the author, notes, appendices, etc., by V. Ball''. 1889 Archive.org [http://www.archive.org/stream/travelsinindia00unkngoog#page/n8/mode/2up Volume 1], [http://www.archive.org/stream/travelsinindia00tavegoog#page/n9/mode/2up Volume 2]. Includes an account of diamond mining in India at the time of his visits, including 1652
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===Coal===
*There was coalmining in Cutch near the towns of Seesagud, and Mandaree. <ref>harshawardhan_bosham nimkhedkar [httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20200330234826/https://archiverlists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/thhyperkitty/readlist/india.rootsweb.com/thread/2004-047730525/1082306659 Coalmining in Cutch] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 18 April 2004, written in response to Nicholas Balmer [https://web. Retrieved 16 August 2017archive.org/web/20200329035600/https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india.rootsweb.com/thread/7730665/ Coalmining in Cutch in 1827, Corporal Hay, Private W. Humphries, Ensign McCulloch Surgeon Gray IN], same Mailing List and date, both now archived.</ref>*[https://web.archive.org/web/20151017172847/http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-09-17/news/33902536_1_coal-fires-jharkhand-minerals '"Dwarkanath Tagore: Rabindranath's grandfather played lead role in the history of coal mining in India'"] by Vikram Doctor, September 17, 2012 ''The Economic Times'', now an archived page. The first application to mine coal was made in 1770. Includes reference to mine in [[Burdwan]] at Raniganj, at Naraincoory, close to Raniganj, at Munglepore, where there were indigo plantations, and in [[Assam]]
===Diamonds===
*"Early Records of Diamond Mining in India" [http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:OrLzpePhwbAJ:www.10ikcbangalore.com/docs/10th_IKC_Ext_Abst_sample.pdf+"Early Records of Diamond+Mine+British+Mining in India&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESj1TGGenRmUo-yj-IyBgndmdobEnFNBfY0IzVtMgbrMWSRZSA3hcogrDoLKIkIctKhGxSrnYvWnj0-GFyR-trT2aAUtdQSg5siiC5X_e-sGlqm3z8w-DRRqV8hXQ3AmY-cYc8D-&sig=AHIEtbS1k1e_qAirATkHKMwFL8KKJrOOhg html version] [http://www.10ikcbangalore.com/docs/10th_IKC_Ext_Abst_sample.pdf original pdf"] Extended Abstract of a paper by Fareeduddin and R.H. Sawakar for the 10th International Kimberlite Conference, Bangalore 2012.*[https://web.archive.org/web/20190909051300/http://www.minelinks.com/alluvial/diamondGeology2.html Diamond In India: Historical Review Of Diamond Geology And Mining] by Rafal Swiecki, geological engineer. Click at the bottom of the page for more pages. www.minelinks.com/alluvial, now archived.**Includes [https://web.archive.org/web/20101218015929/http://www.minelinks.com/alluvial/diamondGeology_1.html Map of Diamond Fields in India]*[https://web.archive.org/web/20150901083623/http://www.allaboutgemstones.com/diamond_mines_golconda.html Diamond Mines of the World: India's Diamonds of Golconda] Allaboutgemstones.com , now archived.
===Gold===
===Rubies and Jade===
*"The Expedition to the Ruby Mines of Upper Burma (A Short Sketch) by Captain W[https://web. Narchive. Lloyd, R.A. ''Minutes of Proceedings of the Royal Artillery Institution Volume 15 1888'' [org/web/20180613123737/http://www.ruby-sapphire.com/pdf/Lloyd-1888-The-Expedition-to-the-Ruby-Mines-of-Upper-Burma-Journal-of-the-Royal-Artillery-p-435-short.pdf pdf version] [https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:9OHNPoGCAH0J:www.ruby-sapphire.com/pdf/Lloyd-1888-"The-Expedition-to-the-Ruby-Mines-of-Upper-Burma-Journal-(A Short Sketch)"] by Captain W. N. Lloyd, R.A. ''Minutes of Proceedings of-the-Royal-Artillery-p-435-short.pdf+Mountain+Artillery+mule+loads&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESgvFcnR1KYrhgOjugAHAwn3ViaxXGxCUMDe3tgkGiub_66WQvKeX_aHEZPMEvb-o4wETkKXQ90zJaC-1ZYME1-3B06U7LAPJMEPc9QnSzMjq886dISsX3F75yganOvoOWYyUJvQ&sig=AHIEtbRcKUI-ArxxLfpr4vGHlr2_cTonSA html version] ruby-sapphire.comInstitution Volume 15 1888''.(Scroll past the Contents pages)ruby-sapphire.com, now archived.
*[http://www.palagems.com/burma_ruby.htm "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
*[httphttps://www.ruby-sapphire.com/index.php/component/content/article/10-articles/781-burma-s-jade-mines.htm -an-annotated-occidental-history?Itemid=202 "Burma’s jade mines: An Annotated Occidental History"] by Richard W Hughes. ruby-sapphire.com.
===Salt===
*''Transactions of the Mining and Geological Institute of India'' Archive.org. Catalogued as ''Transactions''. From Volume I for 1906.
:[https://archive.org/details/transactions01mini 1906: I], [https://archive.org/stream/transactions01mini#page/n309/mode/2up 1907: II], [https://archive.org/stream/transactions01mini#page/n501/mode/2up 1908: III]. [https://archive.org/details/transactions04mini 1909: IV], [https://archive.org/stream/transactions04mini#page/n429/mode/2up 1910: V], [https://archive.org/details/transactions06mini 1911: VI], [https://archive.org/stream/transactions06mini#page/n357/mode/2up 1912: VII],[https://archive.org/stream/transactions06mini#page/n757/mode/2up 1913: VIII], [https://archive.org/details/p1transactions09mini 1914, June: IX Part 1], [https://archive.org/details/p1transactions10mini 1915, June: X, Part 1], [https://archive.org/details/transactions11mini 1916 XI], [https://archive.org/stream/transactions11mini#page/n309/mode/2up 1917: XII], [https://archive.org/stream/transactions11mini#page/n499/mode/2up 1918: XIII], [https://archive.org/stream/transactions11mini#page/n655/mode/2up 1919: XIV], [https://archive.org/stream/transactions11mini#page/n831/mode/2up 1920: XV], [https://archive.org/details/p1transactions16mini 1921, July: XVI Part 1], [https://archive.org/details/p2transactions16mini 1922, February: XVI Part 2], [https://archive.org/details/p1transactions17mini 1922, May: XVII Part 1].
*[httphttps://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206046/page/n1/mode/2up ''The Geology Of Burma''] by H L Chhibber (Harbans Lal) 1934 Archive.org:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.234095/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Mineral Resources Of Burma''] by H L Chhibber 1934 Archive.org. Both mirrors from Digital Library of India. *[https://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/26138 ''India's Mineral wealth: A guide to the occurrences and economics of the useful minerals of the Indian Empire''] by J Coggin Brown. Oxford University Press, London, 1936. Link to a pdf download Digital Repository of GIPE, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune, India.
*[https://archive.org/details/junglelifeinindi00balluoft ''Jungle Life in India: or, The Journeys and Journals of an Indian Geologist''] by V Ball Geological Survey of India 1880 Archive.org
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=14lwAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA261 "Description of the North West Coal District, stretching along the Damoda"], page 261 ''Gleanings in Science, Volume 1'' 1829 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=4ohwAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA217 "On the Coal field of Palamu"] page 217 ''Gleanings in Science, Volume 2'' 1830 Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/diamondscoaland00ballgoog/page/n70/mode/2up "Coal"] page 58 ''The Diamonds, Coal and Gold of India: Their Mode of Occurrence and Distribution'' by V Ball (Valentine) of the Geological Survey of India. 1881. Archive.org.*[http://www.archive.org/stream/miningengineer23goog#page/n9/mode/1up ''The Mining Engineer Volume 32'' 1906-1907], page 203 (computer digital page n284) mentions the Giridih Coal- Field, Bengal*[httphttps://ebooksarchive.org/details/in.adelaideernet.edudli.au2015.3058/kpage/kiplingn295/rudyardmode/giridih/index.html "2up ''The Giridih Coal -Fields"''] pages 293-309 ''From Sea to Sea and Other Sketches, Volume II'' by Rudyard Kipling 1891 eBooks@Adelaide1938, first published 1888. Archive.org.**Article about [http://www.kipling.org.uk/rg_giridih_intro.htm "The Giridih Coal FieldsCoalfields"] from Kipling.org.uk
====Diamonds====
*[https://archive.org/details/diamondscoaland00ballgoog/page/n12/mode/2up "Diamonds"] page 1 and [https://archive.org/details/diamondscoaland00ballgoog/page/n142/mode/2up Appendix] page 130 ''The Diamonds, Coal and Gold of India: Their Mode of Occurrence and Distribution'' by V Ball (Valentine) of the Geological Survey of India. 1881. Archive.org.
*''Travels in India by Jean Baptiste Tavernier, baron of Aubonne, tr. from the original French edition of 1676, with a biographical sketch of the author, notes, appendices, etc., by V. Ball''. 1889 Archive.org [http://www.archive.org/stream/travelsinindia00unkngoog#page/n8/mode/2up Volume 1], [http://www.archive.org/stream/travelsinindia00tavegoog#page/n9/mode/2up Volume 2]. Includes an account of diamond mining in India at the time of his visits, including 1652.
:[https://archive.org/details/travelsinindia00tave/page/n8/mode/2up Volume I] and [https://archive.org/details/travelsinindia00tave/page/n441/mode/2up Volume II], 2nd edition 1925, edited by William Crooke, late of Indian Civil Service. In one digital file, Archive.org. This edition includes revisions made by Dr Ball prior to his death in 1895, but not published.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/diamondcattellew00cattrich#page/n179/mode/2up "The Diamond Mines of India"] Chapter 8, ''The Diamond'' by W.R. Cattelle 1911 Archive.org
====Gold====
*[https://archive.org/details/diamondscoaland00ballgoog/page/n106/mode/2up "Gold"] page 95 ''The Diamonds, Coal and Gold of India: Their Mode of Occurrence and Distribution'' by V Ball (Valentine) of the Geological Survey of India. 1881. Archive.org.
*[http://archive.org/stream/myvisittogoldfie00jennrich#page/n7/mode/2up ''My visit to the goldfields in the South East Wynaad''] by Samuel Jennings 1881 Archive.org
*[http://ia600506.us.archive.org/5/items/goldsportandcoff13746gut/13746-h/13746-h.htm#Page_190 Chapter VII Gold] from [http://ia600506.us.archive.org/5/items/goldsportandcoff13746gut/13746-h/13746-h.htm ''Gold, Sport, And Coffee Planting In Mysore''] by Robert H. Elliot 1898 Archive.org.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/NilgirisFrancis/Untitled#page/n23/mode/2up, ''Madras District Gazetteers: The Nilgiris''] by W Francis 1908 Archive.org, page 13 (digital 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.
====Rubiesand Jade====*[https://archive.org/details/ShortDescriptionOfTheMinesOfPreciousStonesInTheDistrictOf/mode/2up "Short Description of the Mines of Precious Stones, in the District of Kyat-pyen, in the Kingdom of Ava"] by Père Giuseppe D’Amato, reprinted page 24 ''SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research, Vol. 2, No. 1, Spring 2004''. It was translated from Italian for publication in the ''Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal'' in 1833, and the original edition is [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiug.30112084952057?urlappend=%3Bseq=113 pages 75-76] HathiTrust Digital Library. The author, also known as Padre Don José, was an Italian Catholic missionary of the Barnabite order who was in Burma c 1784 until his death in 1832.<ref>[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101077789723?urlappend=%3Bseq=391 "Memoir of Giuseppe d’ Amato"] by Major H Burney, Resident at the Burmese Court dated 9 April 1832. Page 349 ''Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal''. v.1 (1832) HathiTrust Digital Library; [https://maristfathers.org.au/Documents%202014/1114%20Monica%20-%20Res%20Paper%201.pdf Myanmar Catholic Church Found In Historical Records (1287-1900)] maristfathers.org.au.</ref>
*[http://archive.org/stream/cu31924023461456#page/n5/mode/2up ''Burmah No 2: Correspondence respecting the Ruby Mines of Upper Burmah''] presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty 1887 Archive.org
*''A Short Account of an Expedition to The Jade Mine in Upper Burma'' by C H E Adamson 1889 from [https://gemology.se/chronology.html Gill's Historical Index To Gems And Jewelry Online] scroll down and click on the link, or [https://gemology.se/gill-library/gemjewelry/A_Short_Account_of_an_Expedition_to_The_Jade_Mine_in_Upper_Burma_C_H_E_Adamson_1889.pdf direct pdf]. gemology.se.
*[https://archive.org/stream/preciousstonesa03stregoog#page/n194/mode/2up "Burma Rubies"] page 153 ''Precious stones and gems, their history, sources and characteristics'' by Edwin William Streeter 6th Edition 1898 Archive.org
