In India, coal mining is conducted using two methods: underground and opencast methods. The underground method is suitable for extraction of deeper coal seams, whereas opencast method is suitable for shallow …

First Online: 26 October 2023. 203 Accesses. Part of the book series: Springer Proceedings in Earth and Environmental Sciences ( (SPEES)) Abstract. The current trend in coal …

The gap between supply and demand for coal was 89.913 million In the United States, surface mining contributed tonnes during the FY 2016-17 (Coal Directory of 66% of the total production in 2015 (Coal Mining India, 2016-17b). Demand for coal in India as a in the United States, 2018).

A short description of the study area. The study site Sonepur-Bazari mine is an active opencast coal mine of Raniganj coalfield area, located in the Pandabeswar C.D. Block of Paschim Bardhaman district, West Bengal, India (Fig. 2).The area is bounded by 23°39′10″N to 23°42′35″N latitude and 87°10′45″E to 87°15′45″E longitude.

Coal mining in India. India is rich in ancient coal fields like Gondwana coalfields (250 million years old) and tertiary coalfields (15-60 million years old). Coal mining was started during the rule of the East India Company in 1774 in the Raniganj coalfield along the western bank of the Damodar river. To increase coal production, the …

India has a unique blend of big and small, manual and mechanised, opencast and underground mines. The total number of working coal mines as on date are 572, in the oil sector there are 29 oil projects excluding installations off-shore beyond territorial waters. As far as metaliferous mines are concerned, a fair estimate indicates about 6 000 ...

3. Dipka OC Project. The Dipka OC Project is located in Chhattisgarh. It is owned by Coal India and produced an estimated 34.4 million tonnes of coal in 2022. The mine will operate until 2047. Buy the profile here. 4. Bhubaneswari OCP Mine. The Bhubaneswari OCP Mine, owned by Coal India, is a surface mine located in Odisha.

The current trend in coal production in India shows that underground mining contributed less than 5–8% of the total coal produced. On the other side, the contribution of opencast mining to coal production is at its peak. This trend is not sustainable in the...

In India coal seams with inclination as steep as 1 in 3 have been worked by mechanised opencast mining methods in Karanpura field. Seams at shallow depths which are actively gassy, liable to spontaneous heating or with bad roof should preferably be extracted by quarrying as the mining legislation for underground working of such seams is stringent.

Dust from haul and transport roads are the major source of air pollution in opencast coal mining areas. Dust generated during mining operations pollutes air which causes different health problems. ... Characterization of different road dusts in opencast coal mining areas of India Environ Monit Assess. 2012 Jun;184(6):3427-41. doi: 10.1007 ...

At the COP summit in 2021, India signed on to an agreement to "phase down" coal. But even with an ambitious plan to triple renewable energy capacity by 2030, the coal ministry anticipates that ...

India ranks third in coal production. However, the country has to import coal in order to meet the rising demand for coal. In India, coal mining is conducted using …

Coal Secretary Amrit Lal Meena informed CNBC-TV18 that underground mines cause less harm to the environment compared to open-cast mines, as fewer forests need to be removed, and a smaller number of people have to be displaced. ... Equipment like surface miners and other machinery made in India are being deployed for coal …

View PDF. Coal mining Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground. Coal is valued for its energy content, and, since the 1880s, has been widely used to generate electricity. Steel and cement industries use coal as a fuel for extraction of iron from iron ore and for cement production.

The government, therefore, announced In June this year that Coal India Limited (CIL), the country's biggest coal miner, will quadruple its underground mining production to 100 million tonnes (MT ...

Coal mining processing plant in Nigeria. This coal mining project is an open pit mine located in Nigeria, announced by mining company - Western Goldfields - that it has discovered 62,400,000 tonnes of proven reserves of coal deposits worth US$1.2 billion which could be used for the generation of electric power...

Production volume of coal from Coal India Limited from financial year 2005 to 2023 (in million metric tons) Premium Statistic Number of employees in the mining sector India FY 2017-2023

The mining authority favors opencast mining over underground mining in order to lower the cost per unit of coal output [23]. PL clusters make up a significant percentage of RCF in West Bengal. ...

India, the world's second-largest coal producer after China, currently extracts 95 per cent of its coal from opencast mines carved into the surface, and relies …

The Coal vision 2025 of India estimates that the total domestic coal production is projected to increase to 1086 MT in 2025, of …

Around 70% of the country's coal reserves are amenable to UG mining, which delivers several advantages. In FY22, out of 622.6 million tonnes of coal mined, nearly 96%, or 597 million tonnes, was opencast (OC) coal. India accounts for 12.5% of global coal consumption. Close to 70% of the country's electricity generation is coal-based.

Dust is the major air pollutant in opencast coal mining areas (CMRI 1998; Vallack and Shillito 1998).Singh has reported haul roads to produce 0.25–0.70 kg of dust per kilometer travel of a dumper.Ghose and Majee reported a total generation of 9.4 t dust per day as a result of whole mining operation in an opencast mine of Jharia Coalfields, …

Surface mining is the dominant driver of land use land cover (LULC) change in the Raniganj coalfield region in West Bengal, India. Owing to its multifaceted consequences on soil, water, and landholders, assessment of spatio-temporal changes in mining areas has become important. The oldest coal mine of India, Raniganj coalfield …

The importance of coal current trend of coal production in India was is not only confined in the energy sector but the obtained from Provisional Coal Statistics (2012more significant role it plays in the economy of 13 to 2016-17), Coal Directory of India (2007-08 to 2016-17d), Coal Vision 2030 by Stakeholders' the country (Coal Vision, 2030a ...

NEW DELHI: State-owned Coal India Ltd, which has imported high-capacity mining equipment worth ₹ 3,500 crore in the past five years, has drawn up a plan to phase out such inbound shipments over ...

Coal mining extracts coal from underground or open-pit mines for use in energy production & industrial processes. Get complete list of Coal Mines in India state-wise. ... Coal Mining in India is faced with …

The Coal vision 2025 of India estimates that the total domestic coal production is projected to increase to 1086 MT in 2025, of which the opencast production will be 902 MT (83%). In...

The study was conducted at Lakhanpur opencast mine of MCL (Mahanadi Coalfields Limited), a subsidiary body of CIL (Coal India Limited) the largest coal producing company of the world. The study was done in the month of December 2013, using DustTrakII at nine different locations in the mine.

In September, India's total coal production stood at a high of 67.21 million tonnes (mt), compared to that of 58.04mt during the same period in 2022. Credit: Tea Talk via Shutterstock. So far, India has done little to answer the question of coal. While the uptake of renewable technologies has ramped up and net zero commitments have been …

Coal is the most important and abundant fossil fuel in India. Coal-fired power plants meet 72% of India‟s electricity demand. Presently India is the second largest producer of coal in the world after China. India had a total coal resource of 344.02 Bt the total lignite reserve stands on 46.02 billion tons. Commercial primary energy