Granite Building Stone Quarry of New Pannippara Bricks & Metals in Perakamanna Village, Eranad Taluk, Malappuram District – Extent 4.4542 Ha PRE-FEASIBILITY AND BASELINE DATA 1.1 INTRODUCTION New Pannippara Bricks & Metals proposes to set up a stone quarry unit at Survey Nos. 12/1(pt), 12/1/1(pt), 12/1/2(pt), 12/1/3(pt), 13/1/1(pt), 16/1(pt) of Perakamanna Village, Eranad Taluk, Malappuram District, Kerala. The proposed Lease area for mining is 4.4542 Ha. All mining projects with lease area up to less than 50 Ha including projects of minor mineral with lease area less than 5 Ha would be treated as B Category as defined in the EIA Notification, 2006. Hence the proposal is put up for obtaining Environmental Clearance from SEIAA, Kerala. 1.2 PROJECT SITE LOCATION The proposed site is located at Survey Nos. 12/1(pt), 12/1/1(pt), 12/1/2(pt), 12/1/3(pt), 13/1/1(pt), 16/1(pt) of Perakamanna Village, Eranad Taluk, Malappuram District, Kerala. The land use classification of the project site is dry land. The location map of the site is given in Figure 1-1. 1 Granite Building Stone Quarry of New Pannippara Bricks & Metals in Perakamanna Village, Eranad Taluk, Malappuram District – Extent 4.4542 Ha Figure 2-1 Location map of the site 1.3 PROJECT PROPONENT The Project proponent is New Pannippara Bricks & Metals, having office at Building Pannippara (P.O), Edavanna, Malappuram – 676 541, Kerala. K. V. Moideen Koya is the Managing Partner and Authorized signatory of the firm. Authorization and ID proof of Authorised Signatory is Enclosed. 1.4 THE PROJECT The proposed Project is Building Stone quarry of New Pannippara Bricks & Metals with an area of 4.4542 Ha. The site is at Perakamanna Village, Eranad Taluk, Malappuram District, Kerala. The Survey Nos. are 12/1(pt), 12/1/1(pt), 12/1/2(pt), 12/1/3(pt), 13/1/1(pt), 16/1(pt). It is proposed to mine 700 TPD of rock from the site. The lease is to be applied for 12 Years. 1.5 SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE AROUND THE PROJECT SITE The proposed site is surrounded by various places like schools, Hospitals, residences etc. The same is given in Table 1-1. Table 2-1 List of Social Infrastructure around the site Sl. Places (MIN 5 DETAILS) Dist. from Project No. Site (Km) Schools & Colleges 1 Pannippara high school 1.5km 2 Thoovkkad Badal school 4km 3 Pannippara Anganvadi 1km 4 CHMKMHS iruvaitti 4km 5 Palappatta Govt LP school 5km Hospitals 1 Rajagiri hospital Edavanna 7km 2 EMC hospital edavanna 8km 3 Health centre Edavanna 11km 4 Thalook Hospital Areacode 8km Places 2 Granite Building Stone Quarry of New Pannippara Bricks & Metals in Perakamanna Village, Eranad Taluk, Malappuram District – Extent 4.4542 Ha Sl. Places (MIN 5 DETAILS) Dist. from Project No. Site (Km) 1 Thoovakkad 5km 2 Palappatta 5km 3 Vdassery 4km 4 Iruvaitty 5km 5 Edavanna 8km 1.6 DISTANCE OF THE SITE FROM SENSITIVE LOCATIONS The sensitive locations from the project site are given in Table 1-2. Table 2-2 Sensitive locations from Project Site Sl. No. Places Dist. from Project Site (Km) Religious areas 1 Vadashery Juma Musjid 1.1 km 2 Pannippara town masjid 2 km 3 Ayappa Bhajana Madam 2 km 4 Pottiyil Temple 2.5 km 5 St George Orthodox Church 7 km 6 Vadavulam church 15 km River 1 Chaliyar edavanna 5km 2 Karimpuya nilamboor 30km 3 Chaliyar arecode 7km 4 Anakkayam river 28km 1.7 ACCESS ROAD The proposed site will have access through the existing private road. From the quarry, rocks are transported to the crusher using the private road only. No public road is used for 3 Granite Building Stone Quarry of New Pannippara Bricks & Metals in Perakamanna Village, Eranad Taluk, Malappuram District – Extent 4.4542 Ha this purpose. From the site a private road is connected to the Areacode – Edavanna public tar road. The Cadastral Map signed by Village officer and the Area Survey Plan approved by Village Officer are enclosed. Figure 1-2 Image showing the approach road to the site. 4 Granite Building Stone Quarry of New Pannippara Bricks & Metals in Perakamanna Village, Eranad Taluk, Malappuram District – Extent 4.4542 Ha 2. PROJECT DESCRIPTION 2.1 TYPE AND NEED FOR THE PROJECT The proposed project is mining of Building Stone Quarry within lease area of 4.4542 Ha. The proposed project is Category B, S. No. 1(a) a since the proposed mining area <5 Ha. It is proposed to mine 700 tons of rock / Day. The stone is one of the primary building materials. The proposed mining activity is the backbone for all construction and infrastructure projects, as the raw material for construction is available only from such mining. 2.2 MINE LEASE AREA The proposed Lease area for mining is 4.4542 Ha. The details of split up of lease area are given below in Table 2-1. Table 2-1 Split up of Lease Area Sl.No Lease Area ( Ha) Survey No. 1 0.0669 12/1 2 0.7954 12/1/1 3 1.0773 12/1/2 4 0.5046 12/1/3 5 1.6179 16/1 6 0.3921 13/1/1 Total 4.4542 Ha The said quarry lease falls between the geographical co-ordinates of the extreme boundary pillars are shown below: B. P. No. Latitude Longitude 01 N110 12’19.78’’ E760 06’02.60’’ 02 N110 12’20.21’’ E760 06’02.10’’ 03 N110 12’23.18’’ E760 05’59.32’’ 04 N110 12’27.94’’ E760 06’00.06’’ 05 N110 12’28.02’’ E760 06’02.21’’ 06 N110 12’27.40’’ E760 06’04.61’’ 07 N110 12’27.56’’ E760 06’05.52’’ 08 N110 12’25.39’’ E760 06’06.13’’ 09 N110 12’25.50’’ E760 06’07.02’’ 10 N110 12’22.73’’ E760 06’06.98’’ 5 Granite Building Stone Quarry of New Pannippara Bricks & Metals in Perakamanna Village, Eranad Taluk, Malappuram District – Extent 4.4542 Ha 11 N110 12’21.43’’ E760 06’07.43’’ 12 N110 12’20.93’’ E760 06’06.11’’ 13 N110 12’21.04’’ E760 06’05.31’’ 14 N110 12’20.62’’ E760 06’03.68’’ 15 N110 12’19.57’’ E760 06’03.22’’ The layout of mine lease area with the lease applied boundary, mine approach road, contour etc is enclosed. 2.3 PROPOSED METHOD OF MINING Open cast method of mining on single shift basis is proposed to excavate the rock to gradually achieve the production target. Loosening of the hard rock mass will be effected through blasting. Blasting will be done by using Hydraulic jackhammer. Rock breaker will be used to break down large bolder to small sized bolder. Excavators will be used for excavation & loading of the blasted materials in to tippers/trucks. The rock waste materials if generated it will be used for mine closure. Drilling Blasting Bench formation Excavation Loading into Tippers Transportation to crushers Schematic diagram of opencast mining method 6 Granite Building Stone Quarry of New Pannippara Bricks & Metals in Perakamanna Village, Eranad Taluk, Malappuram District – Extent 4.4542 Ha 2.4 QUARRYING / MINING Based on the mode and method so adopted and taking geological parameters of the ore body into consideration, the quarry pit is designed such that the height of the bench is kept about 5.00 m max., and width is also kept 5.00 m. 2.5 DRILLING AND BLASTING Since the quarry is being worked by mechanized means and the benches are kept at 5.0 m height and the Charnockite is the material which is hard to medium hard in nature, drilling and blasting is required to exploit the same. On an average about 850 tons of material required to be drilled and blast daily. The broad blasting parameters are determined for the blasting pattern and blast design, which are as follows: Since the bench height needs to be maintained 5.0 m, two sub benches will be created of 2.50 m height each and both the benches will be joined / merged together to form 5.00 m height. Blast hole will be preferably by jack hammer where the diameter is normally 32mm and the depth of hole is 2.5 – 2.75 m. Blasting pattern is generally square or rectangle or staggered with burden ranging from 0.75 to 1.00 m and spacing of 1.00 to 1.20 m. Usually single / double row of holes is blasted along free to achieve optimum powder factor, best fragmentation and minimizing adverse impact on account of blasting. Maximum numbers of holes will be blasted at a time in a round are generally limited to 20 to 30 with normal delay detonators to mitigate adverse impacts such as air blast, throw and the ground vibration. Holes are electrically detonated using electric detonators. Nitrate Mixture types of explosives will be used for blasting with 20 to 25 percent, proportion of primer/booster cartridges and rest as column charge. About 1 to 1.5 KGs of explosives are loaded in 32 mm diameter holes. And powder factor ranging between 5.0 to 7.0 Tones per kgs of explosives is achieved. 2.6 EXCAVATION AND TRANSPORTATION OF MATERIALS Subsequent to the drilling and blasting, the material so dislodged/fragmented/loosens from the rock mass, the boulders so generated subsequent to blasting will be crushed or broken with the help of the rock breakers to the required size.