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  2. Indian units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    When the British first began trading in India, they accepted barley corn as a unit for weighing gold. Eventually, the British introduced their own system for weighing gold. In 1956, the government of independent India passed the Standards of Weights Act, which would come into effect in 1958.

  3. Gold coin - Wikipedia

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    Gold coins for sale at the Dubai Gold Souk. A gold coin is a coin that is made mostly or entirely of gold.Most gold coins minted since 1800 are 90–92% gold (22‑karat), while most of today's gold bullion coins are pure gold, such as the Britannia, Canadian Maple Leaf, and American Buffalo.

  4. Dubai - Wikipedia

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    Dubai has a free trade in gold and, until the 1990s, was the hub of a "brisk smuggling trade" [59] of gold ingots to India, where gold import was restricted. Dubai's Jebel Ali port, constructed in the 1970s, has the largest human-made harbour in the world and was ranked seventh globally for the volume of container traffic it supports. [ 165 ]

  5. GOLD - Wikipedia

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    Gold, a chemical element; Genomes OnLine Database; Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk, a NASA Explorer Mission of Opportunity; GOLD (parser), an open-source parser-generator of BNF-based grammars; Graduates of the Last Decade, an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers program to garner more university level student members

  6. The Gold (Control) Act, 1968 - Wikipedia

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    The Gold (Control) Act, 1968 is a repealed Act of the Parliament of India which was enacted to control sale and holding of gold in personal possession. High demand for gold in India with negligible indigenous production results in gold imports, leading to drastic devaluation of the Indian rupee and depletion of foreign exchange reserves to alarming levels.

  7. List of mines in India - Wikipedia

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    Hatti gold Mines: Karnataka: Hatti, Raichur: Government of Karnataka: Kolar Gold Factory [KGF] Karnataka: Robertsonpet, Kolar: Bharat Gold Mines Limited: 1900–2001 (closed) Lava Gold Mines Jharkhand: Chandil: Manmohan Mineral Industries

  8. The housing market should pick up next year, but the path ...

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    But mortgage rates in the 6% to 6.2% range this year were enough to spur an increase in buying and selling, and those levels remain possible next year. Read more: Why are home prices so high?

  9. Coinage of India - Wikipedia

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    Cunningham (1891) asserts that ancient India had an abundance of gold but little silver. The gold to silver ratio in India was 10 to 1 or 8 to 1. In contrast, in the neighbouring Persia, it was 13 to 1. This value differential would have incentivised the exchange of gold for silver, resulting in an increasing supply of silver in India. [29]