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(iii) Mining Archaeology: This is a new field of research in India. While there are many which are believed to be ‘ancient’, the dates of their excavations are not established in all cases. We report in Table 1, a gist of the important C-14 dates of some of the ancient mines. The earliest date (of 1260 B.C.) reported so far corresponds to Rajpura-Dariba of Rajasthan. Mining in ancient India has been reported in detail elsewhere (Singh, R.D.)