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Jharia

Boom town, India.

About Jharia

Human settlement in India.1

Where next

Places

An example ofKolar Gold FieldsAnother boom town in India: Kolar Gold Fields.1An example ofHpakantAnother boom town, in Myanmar: Hpakant.1ExamplesMogokAnother boom town, in India: Jharia.2

Sources

  1. Wikidata item Q12429699 (Jharia)
  2. Wikidata item Q2712129 (Mogok)

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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Cover photos from Wikimedia Commons: Bucket wheel excavators by bluecloud9, CC BY-SA 2.0; Draglines by Roy Luck, CC BY 2.0. Pictures: Kirunavaara gruva, Kiruna., Fotograf okänd, / Europeana (Public Domain Mark 1.0).