Intresting fact abt KOLAR GOLD FIELDS

Some facts of KGF, where we had Gold mines in Karnataka

✏An English mining firm, John Taylor & Sons in
1880, started the systematic mining for gold.
✏The first hydroelectric project in South India
was built in 1902 to provide electricity for the
gold fields.
✏Indian Activist, Bezwada Wilson founder and
National Convenor of the Safai Karmachari
Andolan (SKA)is from Kolar Gold Fields
✏Kolar Gold Fields was the third city in India
to get electricity after Darjeeling (1897) and
Calcutta (1898), from Shivanasamudra Hydro
electric project in Mandya District, Karnataka,
India.
✏People from as far as Kolar could see the
lights of this once prosperous city
✏You can see large number of churches in kolar
gold field and CSI My Redeemer's Church in
Mission Hill Marikuppam being the oldest of
nearly 135 years old.
✏KGF was known as "Little England " by the
British, due to its more temperate weather and
a landscape more similar to Britain's. It also had
a sizable Anglo-Indian Population who worked in
the various mines in different capacities.
✏The city is on the Deccan Plateau of central
and south India, about 3000 feet above sea level
✏The Champion Reefs mine was the second
deepest underground mine in the world when it
was operational reached a depth of 3200mts.
✏National Institute of Miners Health had its
headquarters in KGF
✏One can see the old British bungalows and
buildings even today in good shape in KGF.
✏In the year 1902 the suburb of Robertson pet
was established.
✏The mines were taken over by the
Government of mysore in 1956.
✏The mines were taken over by the
Government of India in 1962.
✏S. Manjunath, the Indian Oil Corporation
(IOC) manager who was murdered for exposing
corruption hailed from KGF.
✏KGF played a major part in the prosperity of
the British Empire
'Vijay Shree' awardee K.M. Divakaran is from
KGF.
✏Shram Shri Award by Govt of India -
V.Natarajan of Bharat Earth Movers Ltd
✏The brilliant Indian artist John Wilkins was
born here.
✏The particle experiments at Kolar Gold Fields ,
performed by a collaboration of particle
physicists from Tata Institute of Fundamental
Research ( TIFR), Mumbai, Osaka City University ,
Japan and Durham University, UK recorded the
first cosmic ray neutrino interaction in an
underground laboratory in Gifford's Shaft of
Champion Reefs Mines in 1965.
✏KGF also has the distinction of having a golf
course started by the British dating back to
1885 and affiliated to Indian Golf Union
✏KGF is the birthplace of Magsaysay Awardee
Jockin Arputham , the founder and president of
the National Slum Dwellers Federation (India)
✏KGF club is the most sought after club
because of its affiliation with other national and
international clubs. 
✏Xavier Vijay Kumar HAL Football captain,
Karnataka striker and India vice captain against
Japan in 2006 is from KGF.
✏Lavelle road in Bangalore is named after
Michael Lavelle, the Irish soldier who made his
money in the Kolar Gold Fields..