Maharaja.Ranjit.Sing.. - Gurmat Veechar

Diamond Mines of India 5
of the ground and the houses now found in ruins,
easily prove that the mine has been working since
very long-much longer than is known to history.
But as stated above, without starting any
controversy, we would give here some idea to the
reader as to how a mine was worked in those days.
It would not be out of place to quote Tavernier in
this connection:
"At a distance of about seven days' journey east
of Golconda, there is another diamond mine called
Gani I in the language of the country and colour in
the Persian tongue. It is close to a large town on the
same river which I crossed when coming from another
mine, and at a league and a half from the town there
are high mountains in the form of a cross. The space
between the town and the mountain is covered by a
plain where the mine is situated and the diamonds
are found. The nearer one scorches towards the
mountains, the larger the stones which are found, but
when one ascends too high, nothing is found.
J. This mine has been identified in the Economic Geology
of India, by the routes in Vol. I, 140 and Vol. II, 73 with Kolar
in the Kistna, where according to an MS Map by Col. Mackenzie,
there was a Mine in 1798. The word Gani is equivalent to the
Persian Kan-i, signifying 'mine of'. It is found in use by the
present writers in connection with another mine namely Gani
Partia, 1. It is the title of this mine most commonly used in
. works on numerology and precious stones, sometimes
considerably modified in spelling as Garee, etc. But it cannot be
correctly used as the name of the mine where the great Moghul
or any other diamond was found.