History of Technology in India, Vol. I: From Antiquity to c. 1200 A.D. v1.c12.s1.t2.6

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Occasionally tools and utensils of soapstone and pottery have been found in workings. Stone implements of ore-grinding have been found quite close to mines and are relics from an older age. The great extent of workings indicates the work of several centuries with the type of stone tools used for dealing with and excavating the hard rock encountered in many of these lodes and it is quite likely that the working was intermittent due to unstable working nature of those times.