Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru

Bengaluru, Dec 9: Karnataka has emerged as a potential hotspot for two of the world’s most valuable resources — gold and lithium — after significant deposits of both minerals were discovered in the forest belts of Koppal and Raichur. But despite the scale of the findings, extraction has ground to a halt due to the sites falling within protected forest zones, creating a growing standoff between the mines and geology department and the forest department.

The mines and geology department, which is conducting exploration at 65 locations statewide along with the Geological Survey of India (GSI) and private agencies, said the gold concentration found in Koppal’s Amrapur block is among the richest ever recorded in India.

“In a rare occurrence, we found 12–

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