The ravages of prospecting. Prospecting involves huge amounts of
drilling into the ore body to collect samples and so on. The water spewing
forth is from one such well that KIOCL dug during its prospecting
operations in Nellibeedu. Water gushing out from the sides of the hill is a
indicative of the important role played by these hills in acting as
sponges, soaking up the water during the rains and releasing it during the
rest of the year. This particular 'leak' in an underground stream has
resulted in a hill stream downhill drying up.
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