Sterling Stonex Private limited

SUMMARY 1.0 Introduction M/s. Sterling Stonex Private Limited filed an application for amalgamation/ clubbing of five Quarry Leases for Colour Granite into single lease over an extent of 7.0 ha, 3.78 ha, 2.1 ha, 2.0 ha & 5.43 ha totaling to an extent of 20.31 ha, in Survey No. 1, Addukonda Village, Tekkali Mandal, District, . The Assistant Director of Mines and Geology, Tekkali, has executed the amalgamation of five Quarry Leases into Single Lease totaling to an extent of 20.31 ha in Sy. No. 01 of Addukonda Village, Tekkali Mandal, , Andhra Pradesh State and permission was granted to carry out the quarry operations for the remaining period of co‐terminus with the 1st lease whose period ends early i.e. upto 21‐03‐2023 vide Proceedings No. 2961 / Q / 2013 dated 19‐06‐ 2015. Mining Plan has been approved by Department of Mines and geology vide Letter No. 2075/MP‐TKL/2015 dated 22.08.2015. It is proposed to extract colour granite production of 11059.2 m3 annually by semi mechanized method mining. Capital cost proposed for quarrying is Rs. 40 Lakhs 1.1 Mining Technology The mining operations are carried out by manually and semi‐mechanization as opencast mining. The Colour Granite in the quarry lease applied area is exposed on the surface with boulders. (Hence, it is proposed to mine the boulders/sheet by opencast, semi‐ mechanized methods, by developing the benches of 6m height in 2 phases of 3m each). Wire Saw cutting will be deployed based on the favorable conditions. The development of benches in the sheet rock will be maintained @ 60° safety slopes. 1.2 Mine Location The proposed quarry lease area of 20.31 ha, in Survey No. 1, Addukonda Village, Tekkali Mandal, Srikakulam District, Andhra Pradesh. The quarry lease area falls in the Survey of topo sheet no. 74 B/2 with the co‐ordinates of Latitude 18°37'17.03"N and Longitude 84°12'21.87"E with an elevation of 130 m. Nearest village is Ramakrishnapuram located at a distance of 1.5 km from the QL area in S direction. Nuguddi to Tekkali Village road is passing at a distance of 1.2 km in East direction. Sidipeta – Borigipeta village road is passing at a distance of 1.4km in West direction. NH5 is passing at 2.3 km in SE direction. Nearest town is Tekkali at a distance of 3.1 km in SE direction. Tekkali railway station is at a distance of 3.5 km in SE direction. Banshadhara Main Canal is flowing at a distance of 2.2 km from the QL area in South direction. Peddakedari Reserve forest is at 1km in North direction. Chintapalli Reserve Forest is at distance of 9.6 km in NW direction. Temburukonda Reserve Forest is at distance of4.2km in NW direction. Polavaram Reserve Forest is at distance of 4.0 km in SW Sterling Stonex Private limited

direction. Bejji Reserve Forest is at distance of 9.2 km in SW direction. There are no national/state boundary, national parks, wildlife sanctuaries and critically polluted areas observed in 10km radius from the quarry lease area. Quarry lease location map is presented in figure 1.1. Details of the mine lease area are presented in table 1.1. The lease area is bounded by following Geo coordinates

GCP Latitude Longitude 1 18°37'05.01"N 84°12'24.55"E 2 18°37'05.38"N 84°12'22.68"E 3 18°37'04.37"N 84°12'22.10"E 4 18°37'03.84"N 84°12'18.54"E 5 18°37'14.40"N 84°12'18.10"E 6 18°37'20.53"N 84°12'16.02"E 7 18°37'19.26"N 84°12'05.77"E 8 18°37'26.11"N 84°12'04.38"E 9 18°37'27.28"N 84°12'13.09"E 10 18°37'24.41"N 84°12'13.51"E 10A 18°37'24.96"N 84°12'17.07"E 11 18°37'21.77"N 84°12'17.53"E 12 18°37'21.25"N 84°12'24.79"E 13 18°37'14.89"N 84°12'29.27"E 14 18°37'17.85"N 84°12'31.98"E 15 18°37'13.74"N 84°12'28.67"E 16 18°37'11.11"N 84°12'32.67"E 17 18°37'13.93"N 84°12'23.31"E

Table 1.1 Details of the Mine Lease area State District Mandal Village Sy. No. Extent Status of in hects. occupancy Andhra Srikakulam Tekkali Addukonda 1 20.31 Govt. Land Pradesh