K. SREENIVASA REDDY SURVEY NO. 194, CHINNAHYTA VILLAGE, HOLAGUNDA MANDAL, KURNOOL DISTRICT, ANDHRA PRADESH ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT PLAN (OPEN CAST QUARTZ AND FELDSPAR MINE – 10.00 Ha) SUBMITTED BY STUDIES AND DOCUMENTATION BY Sri. K. SREENIVASA REDDY TEAM Labs and Consultants 8-1-329/1, 501, (MoE&F O.M. - S. NO: 25, List A-1) My Home rainbow Apt, B-115, 116,117 & 509, Annapurna Block, Shaikpet, Tolichowki, Aditya Enclave, Ameerpet, Hyderabad - 500008 Hyderabad-500 038 Mobile No: +91 77308 66688 Phone: 040-23748 555/616, Email: Tele fax: 040-23748666 [email protected] Email: [email protected] SUBMITTED TO STATE LEVEL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT AUTHORITY, ANDHRA PRADESH, GOVERNMENT OF INDIA Sri K. Sreenivasa Reddy Environment Management Plan ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT PLAN 1.0 Introduction This report discusses the management plan for mitigation/abatement of adverse environmental impacts and enhancement of beneficial impacts due to mining. The EMP has been designed within the framework of various legislative and regulatory requirements on environmental and socio-economic aspects. Sri K. Sreenivasa Reddy proposes to conduct semi mechanized opencast method of quarrying for Quartz extraction in an area of 10.0 ha in Survey No. 194, Chinnahyta Village, Holagunda Mandal, Kurnool District, Andhra Pradesh State. Mine lease proceedings issued by asst director of mine and geology, Kurnool, proceeding number 265/M4/2009, dt. 30.08.2011 for a period of 20 years. The lease will expire on 29.08.2031. Mining Scheme was approved by the Deputy Director of Mines and Geology vide Letter No.2025/MS-KNL/2016, dt.25.11.2016. The proposed production of Quartz is 653743 tons/annum. Capital proposed for the quarrying is Rs. 50 Lakhs. Sri K. Sreenivasa Reddy is conscious of its environmental responsibility towards the society in minimizing the pollution load due to this project and accordingly decided to carry out the Environment Management Plan. The objective of preparing environment management plan is to delineate effective measures to control and to mitigate the environmental pollution. This report presents the environment management plan, detailing the environmentally sound technology and the measures needed to contain and mitigate the anticipated environmental impacts due to the project. 1.1 Quartz and its uses Quartz is the second most abundant mineral in the Earth's continental crust. Its crystal structure is a continuous framework of SiO4 silicon–oxygen tetrahedral, with each oxygen being shared between two tetrahedral, giving an overall chemical formula of SiO2. Uses Changes proposed in the use of mineral, if any, with reasons: No changes are observed in specifications of Quartz. The Quartz lumps with be supplied to the Iron and Steel, Glass, Ceramic and Foundry industries located in and around in the state. Changes in the specification, if any, imposed by the user industries: As per the specifications 1-1 Team Labs and Consultants Sri K. Sreenivasa Reddy Environment Management Plan mentioned in approved mining plan, the mineral will be supplied to Iron& Steel, Glass, Ceramic and Foundry industries located in and around the state. Efforts made for utilization of the sub-grade mineral including fines: The sub - grade mineral will be treated as waste because it does not have any market value present. 1.2 Mining Method The mining will be opencast semi mechanized method of mining with height if bench of 6 m is proposed. Drilling and blasting will be required for quartz. The quartz and waste are removed by hydraulic sholve/wheel loaders and loaded into tippers and total ROM is transported to plant. 1.3 Mine Location Sri K. Sreenivasa Reddy proposes to conduct semi mechanized open cast quarrying for Quartz production of 653743 tons/annum. The quarry lease area of 10.0 ha is located at Survey No. 194, Chinnahyta Village, Holagunda Mandal, Kurnool District, Andhra Pradesh State. The quarry lease area falls in the Survey of India topo sheet no. D43F3 (57 E/03) with co-ordinates of Latitude 15° 29'21"N and Longitude 77°05'5"E with an elevation of 431-468 m. The nearest village is Chinnahyati located at a distance of 0.6 km from the QL area in SE direction. The nearest town Adoni located at a distance of 24 km in NE direction. Chinnahyati to Holagunda Village road is passing adjacent to lease area. Holagunda - Adoni Road is passing at a distance of 2.7 km in NW direction. Nearest Railway station is Adoni RS at a distance of 25 kms in NE direction. There are three reserve forests in the study area. Holagunda reserve forest is at a distance of 1.6 km in SE direction Kanchagarabelagallu reserve forest is at a distance of 3.8 km in NW direction and Neraniki reserve forest is at a distance of 7.4 km in NE direction. Hagri or Vedavati River is at a distance of 8.3 km in SW direction. Tungabhadra Right bank Low level Canal is at a distance of 3.9 km in SW direction. Karnataka – Andhra Pradesh interstate boundary is at a distance of 6.7 km in NW direction. There is no national park, wildlife/bird sanctuary and critically polluted areas within 10km radius from the quarry lease area. Quarry lease location map is presented in Figure 1.1. Details of the quarry lease area are presented in Table 1.1. The lease area is bounded by following Geo coordinates 1-2 Team Labs and Consultants Sri K. Sreenivasa Reddy Environment Management Plan S.No Latitude, N Longitude, E A 150 29' 16.2'' 770 05' 18.5'' B 150 29' 13.6'' 770 05' 18.2'' C 150 29' 17.3'' 770 04' 55.5'' D 150 29' 18.2'' 770 04' 55.3'' E 150 29' 20.3'' 770 04' 56.7'' F 150 29' 20.7'' 770 04' 56.9'' G 150 29' 23.0'' 770 04' 57.5'' H 150 29' 19.6'' 770 05' 14.9'' I 150 29' 17.3'' 770 05' 14.8'' Table 1.1 Details of the Lease area Sy. No./ Area in Ownership of State & District Mandal Village Plot No. hectares occupancy Andhra Pradesh Holagunda Chinnahyta 194 10.0 Govt. Land & Kurnool 1.4 Land use pattern of the lease area The quarry lease area is a hillock raised about 57 m above ground level. Object area is exposed Quartz surroundings cover by vegetation. Table 1.2 Land use in Lease Area S. No Purpose Extent (Ha) 1 Area under quarrying 5.29 2 Waste dump area 1.00 3 Road 0.40 4 Infrastructure(Office, rest shelter) 0.40 5 Green belt 0.51 6 Stock yard 0.40 7 Vacant 2.00 Total 10.0 1-3 Team Labs and Consultants Sri K. Sreenivasa Reddy Environment Management Plan Figure 1.1 Location map of Sri K. Sreenivasa Reddy quarry lease 1-4 Team Labs and Consultants Sri K. Sreenivasa Reddy Environment Management Plan Figure 1.2 Quarry Lease Area of Sri K. Sreenivasa Reddy 1-5 Team Labs and Consultants Sri K. Sreenivasa Reddy Environment Management Plan 2.0 Topography The lease area consist part of a hilltop and slopes, which is elongated in East west direction and raising to a height about 55 m from normal ground level the Mine lease area belongs to rocky terrain it does not have any vegetation. The surrounding lands located around the hill are being used for agricultural. The maximum elevation of this hillock from general ground level is 55m. the heighest and lowest elevation in the Ml area are 485 and 430 m from the benchmark of 430 m. 3.0 Regional Geology Regionally the area belongs to granites and granitic gnesiss of varying colours. These are melanocratic in nature and generally exhibits porphyritic texture in addition to coarse grained texture. These granites are traversed by fracture filling of quartz veins and intrusive of Dolerite dyke. When observed locally, they reflect variation in thickness of the quartz veins. 3.1 Geology of the area The quartz vein is formed in the subject area within the granitic gneiss. The quartz vein is trending in east west direction and exposed along the hill top and dipping vertically. The lenghth o the quartz vein is about 650 m and width is about 40 m – 50 m and extending further east along the strike direction between RL 485 m to 440 m. the country rock (granitic gneiss) is well exposed at lower reaches in foot hill of the outside area. Quartz The quartz exposed in this area is granular to semi granular variety. It has fine to medium size, it is brown to white in colour. But at same places it appears in reddish brown due to surface weathering. Granite gneiss Granitic is exposed as big hill with in 500 m distance from the lease area on southern side and no out crops of gneiss are seen with in the area. 4.0 Exploration It is working mine. During last plan period, the mine is operated by manual method of mining using digging tools and occasional drilling and blasting with jack hammer. The average bench height is 6m and width of the bench is 6m with slope of 600. Now for higher production is envisaged, semi mechanized mining method is proposed to be adopted during ensuring 1-6 Team Labs and Consultants Sri K. Sreenivasa Reddy Environment Management Plan mining scheme period. The production achieved in previous years presented below Year Production, tones 2011-2012 2000 2012-2013 3000 2013-2014 5000 2014-2015 5000 2015-2016 5000 Total 200000 5.0 Estimation and Calculation Of Geological Reserves The estimation of ore reserves have been made based on present mine working pits and drilled bore hole (DTH type) data considered.