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Arindam Das ¹, Amitava Kundu ², P. V. S. Rawat ¹

Affiliations
1 Geological Survey of India, Dehradun 248 001, IN
2 Geological Survey of India, Faridabad 121 001, IN

Abstract

Mineral and chemical compositional studies of ancient iron and its slag for their characterization from various parts of India have been carried out by different workers. One of the recent studies from India was on iron slag from Kakching, Manipur. Mineralogical and elemental studies on slags throw light on the prevailing conditions and methods used to extract metals out of enriched rocks by ancient workers. Abundance of iron slags in Kumaon region, Uttarakhand, India might suggest that a close interaction did exist between the Ganga valley and Kumaon in ancient times, and probably metal was one of the main commodities supplied to the Ganga valley for urbanization.

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