Mine Closure Report for Bhurkunda Open Cast Project
MINE CLOSURE REPORT FOR BHURKUNDA OPEN CAST PROJECT (CENTRAL COALFIELDS LIMITED) AUGUST 2012 Regional Institute – III Central Mine Planning & Design Institute Ltd. (A Subsidiary of Coal India Ltd.) Gondwana Place, Kanke Road Ranchi-834008, Jharkhand 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 About the Mine Bhurkunda Colliery, also called as Sangam OCP, having an area of about 10.0 sq.km. faliing in the South Karanpura Coalfields (Barkakana area of CCL) is under active exploitation since 1929. Initially it belonged to Railways, in 1956, NCDC took over it. It was reconstructed with a view to exploit thick quarriable Argada seam. There has been repetition of Argada and other seams due to several strike faults traversing in the property. Between two subsequent faults, Argada seam, the thickest seam of the area, has been worked out by opencast method in quarry no. 5, quarry no. 1, quarry no. 3 & quarry no.4 and quarry no. 2 (Sangam Project) is now being worked. 1.1.1 Name of mine owner / company Project--------- Bhurkunda OCP Area------------ Barka Sayal Area Company------Central Coalfields Limited Mine Owner---Director (Technical)(Operation), CCL 1.1.2 Address for Communication Project-------- Bhurkunda OCP Nearest Railway station ----- The nearest Railway heads is Bhurkunda on Barkakana Dehri-on-sone-Gomoh broad gauge loop of Eastern Railways, about 4 km south from southern end of Bhurkunda block. District--------- Hazaribagh. State-----------Jharkhand. 1.1.3 Location of mine: Project--------- Bhurkunda opencast project is situated in the south eastern part of the south Karanpura Coalfields and is in Barka Sayal area of Central Coalfields Limited. The proposed Bhurkunda East OCP lies in the eastern part of Bhurkunda Colliery lease hold and is being planned to work the older four seams, which was not intended to be worked in the PR of Bhurkunda OCP sanctioned earlier, viz, Argada-A to Argada B seams.
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