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The Indian government is digging for treasure after a civic-minded Hindu village sage proved that 1,000 tonnes of gold was buried under a ruined palace, and wrote to tell the central bank about it with all the proof of maps and convincing Documents. The state Archaeological Survey of India has sent a team of archaeologists to the village of Daundia Khera in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh . They are due to start digging on Friday. Yogi Swami Shobhan Sarkar says the gold he dreamed of belonged to a nineteenth-century ruler, Rao Ram Bux Singh. He says he wants it in government hands to help India recover from an economic crisis. “I cried the day I realised that India is going to collapse economically,” the seer told . The dead ruler’s spirit has been roaming the palace and asking for the gold to be dug up, he added. The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has begun clearing the points marked for excavation around the fort of King Ram Bux Singh, a martyr of the muti...

  The Gold mine at Hatti in North Karnataka is the only operational gold mine of the Country. The old pits in Hutti in Raichur district shows that gold extraction prevailed here since pre Ashokan era. A British firm called John Taylor and Company owned the mine from 1889 to 1902. Thereafter the Nizam of Hyderabad owned it till 1918. After Independence the Karnataka Government began mining here under the name Hutti Gold Mines Company.