Once India became famous for the riches in precious minerals and jewels

Once India became famous for the riches in precious minerals and jewels. Poets often celebrated its gold resources. But its riches in this respect always were improbable, instead of is real. India is actually poor in minerals. It has a lot of iron iron of the best quality. It has also a lot of coal, but its coal is bad, owing to its abundance of ashes. At it is also a few copper and tin. It has gold mines which are worked. Diamonds, also, are found in southern India, and in a considerable quantity so. Well-known Koh-i-nur (280 carats) were the Indian product. But neither diamond hunting, nor a gold mining no more favourable industry in India. The basic mineral industry of India - the mining industry of salt pursued in Punjaub where there are firm rocks of pure salt. Owing to the fact, that people of India - mainly vegetarians (250 000 000 from Hindoos would die, than would eat a flesh), salt - necessary article of a diet and the universal goods. Its manufacture the government as means of lifting of the income, therefore, operates.
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REMARKABLE AGRICULTURAL RESOURCES OF INDIA
The comparative sizes of India and the United States.