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Deb, M. (Ed.) Crustal Evolution and Metallogeny in the Northwestern Indian Shield.

New Delhi (Narosa Publishing House, Alpha Science International Ltd. Pangbourne, UK. Printed in India), 2000, xii + 516 pp. Price £95. ISBN1 84265 001 7.

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Subtitled ‘A Festschrift for Asoke Mookherjee’ this compilation of 23 papers is the result of a seminar held at Delhi University in December 1996. The papers have been subject to largely local review by authors of other papers in the volume.

The Northwestern Indian Shield covers the state of Rajasthan, and parts of northern Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh, also Haryana and Delhi, and an introductory chapter by M. Deb provides a useful brief review of the other chapters putting them into context. Some of the metal deposits of this region were worked in antiquity (at least 400 BC) and none of the deposits described is a recent discovery. S.M. Gandhi details the archaeological evidence for the ancient smelting of copper, lead, silver and zinc, regarding the "complex and sophisticated pyrotechnical operation practiced at Zawar" as ancestral to the high-temperature distillation techniques for zinc manufacture developed in the 19th and 20th centuries.

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