Ashoka’s gold mine set for comeback next year
The ancients called it Suvarnagiri. Gold mountain. Time corrupted the name to Sonnagiri. Then Jonnagiri. But did Suvarnagiri really have gold? It did, and still does. And by this time next year, India’s first private gold mine of the modern era could be producing a tonne of the yellow metal annually in Jonnagiri. But let’s…