Khursipar Iron Ore Mine FORM-I (I) Basic Information Sr. Item Details No. 1. Name of the Project Khursipar Iron Ore Mine 2. S. No. in the Schedule 1 (a) 3. Proposed capacity/area/length/tonnage to Capacity – 35, 600 tons/annum be handled/command area/lease area/ Total Lease area : 4.37 Ha number of wells to be drilled Govt. revenue land - 4.37 Ha No. of bore holes: Reserve is as per exploration carried out by Century Cement, Baikunth, Raipur, and Madhya Pradesh in the year 1983 for Maharashtra State Mining Corporation. Total 33 Core drilling were made during initial prospecting and all the logs were submitted during the first Mine Plan grant. However, in the existing 7 boreholes have been drilled conforming the requirements. 4. New/Expansion/Modernization Working Mine, Expansion 5. Existing Capacity/ Area etc. 35, 600 tons/ annum 6. Category of Project i.e., `A`or `B` Category B1 7. Does it attract general condition? If yes, It does not attract any general condition please specify. 8. Does it attract specific condition? If Yes, It does not attract any Specific condition please specify. 9. Location Plot/Survey/Khasara No. Survey Nos 165 and 132 Village Khursipar Tehsil Amgaon District Gondia State Maharashtra 10. Nearest Railway Station/ Airport along Railway station with distance in kms. Gudma Railway station: Approx.3.66km, (N) Gondia Railway station: Approx. 13.62Km(NW) Gankhera Halt Railway station: App.10.21km (W) Hirdamali Railway station: Approx.10.33Km (SW) Airports Birsi Airport, Gondia is the nearest airport. It is 15.64 kms away. (N) Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar International Hubert Enviro Care Systems Pvt Ltd Page 1 Khursipar Iron Ore Mine airport, Nagpur is located 132.15Km away. (W aerial) 11. Nearest Town, City, District Nearest town : Khursipar 1000m away Headquarters along with distance in kms. Amgaon is the nearest city. It is 9.07 kms away. Gondia is the District Headquarter. It is 13.21 kms away. (N) 12. Village Panchayats, Zilla Parishad, Grampanchayat Khursipar Taluka: Amgaon. Municipal Corporation, Local District: Gondia, Maharashtra. body(complete postal addresses with telephone nos. to be given) 13. Name of Applicant Lessee: Maharashtra State Mining Corporation Ltd. 14. Registered Address “Khanikarm Bhawan”, Plot No- 7, Ajani Chowk, Wardha Road, Nagpur-440015 (Maharashtra) 15. Address for correspondence: “Khanikarm Bhawan”, Plot No- 7, Ajani Chowk, Wardha Road, Nagpur-440015 (Maharashtra) Name P. Y. Tembhare Designation (Owner/Partner/CEO) General manager (Operations) Address “Khanikarm Bhawan”, Plot No- 7, Ajani Chowk, Wardha Road, Nagpur-440015 (Maharashtra) Pin Code 440015 E-mail [email protected] Telephone No. 0712-2253204 to 2253207 Fax. No. 0712-2253203 16. Details of Alternate Sites examined, if Quarrying is a site specific activity. It is any. carried out where it is available. No Location of there sites should be shown alternative site is required to be examined. on a Topo sheet Toposheet no: 64 C/3 17. Interlinked Projects No interlinked projects. Screening and sizing will be done at the bench surface or stack yard. 18. Whether separate application of No separate application is submitted. interlinked project has been submitted? 19. If yes, date of submission No information as per column 18 20. If no, reason Screening and sizing of the ore is carried out at the bench surface or stack yard which is located in the lease area. These are part of the mining activities and will be carried out in the lease area only. Hubert Enviro Care Systems Pvt Ltd Page 2 Khursipar Iron Ore Mine 21 Whether the proposal involves (a) The forest conservation Act is not Approval / clearance under: if yes, details applicable. (Forest area is deleted of the same and their status to be given. annexure enclosed ) (a) The Forest (Conservation) (b) Nagzira Wildlife Sanctuary – 13.86Km – Act, 1980? west, south west. (b) The Wildlife (Protection) (c) Coastal area is far away and no clearance Act 1972? is required under this notification. (c) The C.R.Z. Notification, 1991? 22. Whether there is any Government There is no policy of govt. relating Order/Policy relevant/relating to the site? specifically to this site. The Lease order was granted to MSMC vides order No. MMN 2281/114370 (2948)/ IND- 9 dated 20th April 1983, while lease was executed vide letter dated 30th August 2015. As per section 8A (3) the mining leases granted before the commencement of the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Act, 2015 shall be deemed to have been granted for a period of fifty years. Thus Mining lease would expire on 29/08/2033 since mining operations started on 30/08/1983. Extension for mining lease for the period of 29/03/2024 to 30/03/2034 has been granted to MSMC vides MLV-B-579/2016 dated 19th July 2016 for an area of 4.37Ha. 23. Forest Land involved (hectares) No. 24. Whether there is any litigation pending No. against the products and/or land in which the project is propose to set up? (a) Name of the Court (b) Case. No. (c) Orders/Directions of the court, If any and its relevance with the proposed project. (II) Activity 1. Construction, operation or decommissioning of the Project involving actions, which will cause physical changes in the locality (topography, land use, changes in water bodies, etc.) Sr. Information/Checklist Yes/No Details thereof (with approximate quantities/ No. Confirmation rates, wherever possible) with source of information data 1.1 Permanent or temporary Yes Pres End of 5 Hubert Enviro Care Systems Pvt Ltd Page 3 Khursipar Iron Ore Mine change in land use, land 1 Mining pits 1.14 1.72 2.23 cover or topography 2 Storage for top 0 0.04 0.00 including increase in soil intensity of land use (with 3 Stacks 0.05 0.05 0.00 respect to local land use 4 Waste dump 0.2 0.34 0.00 plan). Infrastructure 5 (workshop, 0.003 0.003 0.00 administrative 6 Roads 0.09 0.09 0.05 7 Water body 0 0 1.24 8 Plantation 0.5 0.77 0.85 9 Area Unused 2.387 1.357 0.00 10 Total (govt. 4.37 4.37 4.37 revenue land) Present mining area (broken area or area under the pit) is 1.14 Ha. This will be expanded to 1.72 Ha towards the end of five years from now. The un utilized (or undisturbed or virgin area) as on today is 2.387 Ha. Part of this area will be utilized for expansion of the pit and other activities during the course of working during the five years. At the conceptual period 2.23 Ha will be excavated for mining activities. 1.2 Clearance of existing land, No No uprooting of trees or demolition of building is vegetation and building? required. 1.3 Creation of new land uses. No There is no creation of new land uses. (Rehabilitation of the mined out area may have different use like creation of horticultural or floricultural areas, water body etc. which are not there today). 1.4 Pre-construction No Not Applicable. (This is ongoing mining project. investigation e.g. bore Bore holes for the exploration process are ongoing holes, soil testing? process). 1.5 Construction works? Yes There is no permanent structure built within the lease. Site Office, rest shelter, stack yard and drinking points etc are of temporary nature. All the site services exist within lease area 1.6 Demolition Works? No Not required as it does not exist in core zone. 1.7 Temporary sites used for No No housing or construction works presently construction works or involved and the laborers deployed by nearby housing of construction villages. workers? 1.8 Above ground building, No There is Mines Office, first aid center, stores, Hubert Enviro Care Systems Pvt Ltd Page 4 Khursipar Iron Ore Mine structures or earthworks drinking points etc. There is no earth work involved including linear structures, (other than mining). Similarly there is no cut and fill cut and fill or excavations. work involved (other than mining). 1.9 Underground works No No underground work is involved as ore body is including mining or very shallow and almost outcropping at some places. tunneling? 1.10 Reclamation works? Yes Systematic reclamation plan (in the form of backfilling and plantation, creation of water body etc) will be organized towards the end of the mine. Sr. Information/Checklist Yes/No Details thereof (with approximate quantities rate, No. Confirmation wherever possible) with source of information data 1.11 Dredging? No It is not involved. 1.12 Offshore structure? No Not involved. 1.13 Production and No There is no manufacturing process in traditional manufacturing process? sense. Iron Ore obtained from the area is sold without beneficiation after screening and sizing. The scope of processing of Iron Ore to upgrade the quality is, therefore, practically limited to size reduction and screening. No further processing is involved. 1.14 Facilities for storage of No Iron ore is sorted at bench surfaces. Than the goods or materials? Fragmented Iron Ore is shifted to stack yard for breaking and sizing and removal of impurities and delivery of iron ore. 1.15 Facilities for treatment or No Build up of Dumps. No processing involved hence disposal of solid waste or no liquid effluents are generated. liquid effluents? 1.16 Facilities for long term No No housing for operational workers either for short housing of operational or long term is required. The operational worker will workers? be from nearby villages for which no housing, at the site is required. 1.17 New road, rail or sea traffic No Pits are already developed.