or nearly a century, The Pioneer Magnesia Works Ltd.
made magnesium salts at Kharagodha (meaning Salt Pits) by extracting brines from the sub-soil of the Little Rann (literally, Desert)
of Kachh in Western India, sometimes known as Wild Ass Sanctuary.
In 1973, Section 18 of the Wild Life Protection Act notified The Little
Rann as a “Wilderness Area”. The region covers an extensive 4954 sq.
kms, making it India’s largest wild life sanctuary.
It is a unique and fragile ecosystem. For long ecologists, wild life
specialists, archeologists, and geologists did voluminous research
of this area, and continue to do so.
