PANJIM: It has been discovered that fifteen per cent of the land mass of Goa contains secondary gold deposits and the area is predominantly in the north part of the state. This was revealed by Dr Nandakumar Kamat, assistant professor at the Department of Botany of Goa University and principal investigator, GU-RNSB-Mineral Biotechnology, in a press briefing, on Monday.
Dr Kamat stated that during their research they discovered that Goa has unique bacterioforms (gold deposited by action of metal tolerant micro-organisms). “Bacterioform is a gold which is naturally formed by bacteria. It is for the first time in India and Asia, there is a report on bactorioform gold. Also many of its forms are not found anywhere else,” he added.
According to him, the estimated gold concentration is1-2g/MT and estimated gold deposits — maximum, 6000 MT-minimum 3000 MT and the estimated market value of it would be ` 600-1200 billions.
He further said that this is the first report of placer gold in Tilloid and first report of microbiogenesis of gold under lateritic strata. “This discovery would be useful for understanding past climate changes and sedimentation processes,” he confirmed.
He also hinted that there is a possibility of finding zirconium, hafnium, uranium and thorium deposits. Elaborating more on the discovery, Dr Kamat said that it took them 12 years and he is considering it as a chance discovery.
“These bactorioforms are found in the Sanvordem rock formation, which is 2.5 billion years old. These gold deposits are below the sea level” he added. When asked about the mining of land for gold, he mentioned that it would be a cumbersome task as one would need to dig in 60 meters deep, which could be an expensive affair.
His aim through this discovery is to make people aware of the gold deposits in Goa and to maintain this strategic reserve.
Dr Kamat has sent a note of the said discovery to the Chief Minister and Minister of Mines, in order to form a technical committee for carrying out systematic geo-prospecting and geochemical studies by drilling and analyzing deep subsurface core samples and create an atlas of gold deposits of Goa.
Shu!!! Keep it quiet or else we will have all the Ghantis flocking into Goa from all over India.
ReplyDeleteThe Gold mines will be conquered by Ghantiss and we Goans will have to eat the dust. The Goans should wake up and stop the government to excavate the gold mines. The goans should stop the sale of Gold mines to corporators, otherwise it will become like Angola, Sieera Leon, South Africa, Zimbawe, etc where all the African Nation are destroyed by the corporators. These corporators support the Congress and BJP and NCP by paying their bills for the election campaign. Goa governmant should be run by Nizgoeankar and use these gold mines for our future. Rise up people if the corrupt governmant try to excavate it.
ReplyDeleteI am sure that Ratol Mickey and Chorchill already knew about it as they have sizeable amount of metal on their fingers and God knows where else.
ReplyDeleteA big bullshit by another desh premi. Maybe when the truth comes out, the gold will have turned to shit because "NRP Sagres polluted the waters!"
ReplyDeleteMaybe it is the "GOLD" deposited every day by the Ghantis everyday along the banks of Goa's coast.
Cheap publicity to boost self image after the Sagres episode.
Maybe Dr Nandu will win a Nobel Prize for discovering this unique bacterium which turns Goan soil into gold! Probably, the Portuguese too knew it well that's why they called our land Goa Dourada!
ReplyDeleteThis must be music to Churchill,Joaquim and Valanka Alemao.
ReplyDeleteAnd all this while and all these years, they were smuggling the "stuff".
Ah well!!Better late than never..there is still 10% to be made!!.
Valanka will no longer need to be an ADVOCATE.....she will be better at "SOCIAL GOLD-DIGGING"
Mining has already destroyed the ecosystem in the Western ghats in Goa. Here's another idiot who's about to start another round of mining in Goa and share the profits with Kamat & party. Please let us stand united against this threat against our mother Goa.
ReplyDeleteThe colour of gold and shit is nearly the same, Let's hope they have not found some ghanti shit and analysed it as Gold to fool us all, we have been fooled science the invasion.
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