India's state mining group Coal India Ltd produced 412.6 million tonnes of coal in the first eight months of the current fiscal year (April-November), up 16.7% from 353.4 million tonnes in the same period of the previous year, the company said in a latest announcement. In November, the company produced 60.7 million tonnes of coal, up 12.8% from ...
The Dhanbad-Jharia area forms part of a mineral rich corridor, most of India's reserves in coal, copper, iron ore and uranium are located in the Durgapur-Dhanbad-Bokaro-Jamshedpur triangle. Industrial coal mining started in the second half of the 19th century, subsequently both steel manufacturing and power generation came up in the region.
The whole region around a coal mine area revolves around coal and also the rural economy. Disturbance of such a generation-long ecosystem can have large ramifications and directly affect the jobs and livelihood of thousands of people located in such areas including formal and information workforce," Tanti told Mongabay-India.
In January 2020, the country's environment ministry approved 14 coal mining and processing projects. This will assist India in meeting a production target of about 750 million tonnes for the coming fiscal year and may serve as a stepping stone toward its next objective of one billion tonnes by 2024.
Globally, India is ranked as one of the leading producers of valuable minerals such as chromite, iron ore, coal and bauxite. The mining sector in India is highly regulated and the legal framework has undergone significant changes in the past five years, the result of which is a more transparent and efficient regime.
Tertiary coalfields are mainly confined to extra-peninsular regions. Important areas include Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Himalayan foothills of Darjeeling in West Bengal, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, and Kerala. Tamil Nadu and the union territory of Pondicherry also bear tertiary coal reserves [exceptions].
The study area of the EIA includes a core zone (which is the mine lease area), and a buffer zone that includes the area within a 10-km radius of the lease area (page 23). Salient features of the project. Location: The area surrounding the project site is rich in coal. Many sub blocks of the Gare block (for instance Gare IV/1-Gare IV/7) are ...
The Coal resources of India are available in older Gondwana Formations of peninsular India and younger Tertiary formations of north-eastern region. Based on the results of Regional/Promotional Exploration, where the boreholes are normally placed 1-2 Km apart, the resources are classified into 'Indicated' or 'Inferred' category.
Dhanbad coal fields are situated in the state of Jharkhand in the East of India, neighbouring West Bengal, Bihar and Orissa. The Dhanbad-Jharia area forms part of a mineral rich corridor, most of India's reserves in coal, copper, iron ore and uranium are located in the Durgapur-Dhanbad-Bokaro-Jamshedpur triangle.
Coal Mine. States. Features/Prominence. Jharia, Dhanbad, Bokaro, Jayanti, Godda, Giridih (Karbhari Coal Field), Ramgarh, Karanpura, Daltonganj. Jharkhand. Dhanbad – One of the oldest in Jharkhand and the richest coalfields of India. It is the storehouse of the best metallurgical coal i.e coking coal. Gondwana Coalfield.
Rat-hole mining is a method of extracting coal by creating a vertical shaft deep underground from which horizontal narrow tunnels are dug on either side. The tunnels are 2-4 feet wide, leading to pits that are up to 100 meters deep. Rat-hole mines also include horizontal tunnels dug directly from the ground to the coal seams.
There are a number of studies since 1989 31-41 on the air quality impact of the coal mining operations, most of them reported by Ghose and Majee. 42-52 The surface mining operations like hauling and transportation generate huge quantity of dust of varying sizes 52 which are the major sources of air pollution in the surface coal mining regions.
Mining is a major economic activity in India and accounted for 2% of the country's gross value added (GVA) for the third quarter of 2019 to 2020. The sector provides the basic raw materials required by several manufacturing and infrastructure industries in the country. India produces 95 minerals, including:
Northeast India contributes 105 Million Tons (MT) of the Gondwana coal and 1492 MT of tertiary coal reserves. Meghalaya and Assam in northeast India contain 73 % of the total tertiary coal reserves. Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh contribute 21 % and 6 % of the total tertiary coal reserves, respectively.
Coal India Limited has 352 mines (as on 1st April, 2020) of which 158 are underground, 174 opencast and 20 mixed mines. CIL further operates 12 coal washeries, (10 coking coal and 2 non-coking coal) and also manages other establishments like workshops, hospitals, and so on. CIL has 26 training Institutes and 84 Vocational Training Centres.
Coal Mining Block. Directions of the Central Government for auction of coal mines under the CM (SP) Act, 2015. Minutes of 4th meeting held on 12-7-2018 under chairmanship of Additional Secretary (Coal) to identify additional coal / lignite blocks for allocation under rule 3 (2) of the Coal Blocks Allocation Rules, 2017.
A year before the NGT ban on rat-hole coal mining, it was reported that there were an estimated 15000-35000 migrant workers in the coal mining areas of Meghalaya. Anthropologist Dolly Kikon and sociologist Duncan McDuie-Ra suggest that migrant numbers are difficult to determine because of undocumented migrants who arrive in Meghalaya from other ...