M/s Sawalia Minerals Grinding Executive Summary for 5.0 Ha Dolomite Industries mining lease Village: Kharkhari District: Alirajpur EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1. PREAMBLE Minerals are the chief source of present phase of industrialization, and play an important role in the present phase of the national economy and overall development of the nation. India is endowed with significant mineral resources. India produces 89 minerals out of which 4 are fuel minerals, 11 metallic, 52 non-metallic and 22 minor minerals. Life Indices: Some Important non-fuel Minerals SL. Minerals Unit Total Resources as per UNFC, Life Index* No. 1.4.2005 (Years) 1. Bauxite tonnes 3289817 204 2. Copper tonnes Ore : 1394426 220** Metal: 11417.72 3. Lead & Zinc tonnes Ore : 522580 82** Lead Metal: 7207.25 Zinc Metal: 24259.68 Lead & Zinc Metal: 118.45 4. Gold Tonnes Ore (Primary) :90289237 240** Metal(Primary) : 491.12 Ore (Placer) : 6121000 Metal(Placer) : 5.86 5. Iron Ore tonnes Haematite: 14630388 104 Magnetite : 10619481 6 Chromite tonnes 213063 47 7. Magnesite tonnes 337882 603 8. Manganese tonnes 378569 113 Ore 9. Lime Stone tonnes 175328914 364 10 Rock Tonnes 305308576 94 Phosphate 11 Sillimanite Tonnes 74339869 Very large 12 Garnet Tonnes 57655633 61 13 Kyanite Tonnes 102613223 Very large 14. Dolomite tonnes 7533108 522 15 Diamond Carats 4581913 41 The State is enriched with steel grade, refractory grade and low silica dolomite. 1152.66 million tonnes of dolomite deposits are spread over in the districts of Balaghat, Chhatarpur, Sagar, Mandla, Jabalpur, Katni, Sidhi, Narshinghpur, Seoni, Jhabua, Alirajpur, Khandwa and Dewas. Presently Dolomite Mining project is located at village Kharkhari, Tahsil Alirajpur; Alirajpur District (MP). 5.0 Ha mining lease area is being operated by the lessee M/s Sawalia Minerals Grinding Industries, Alirajpur having office at 110, Chandrasekhar Azad Marg, Alirajpur and Dist. Alirajpur & lessee is private individual. The mining activity in the lease area has been Ex. Summary 1 M/s Creative Enviro Services, Bhopal M/s Sawalia Minerals Grinding Executive Summary for 5.0 Ha Dolomite Industries mining lease Village: Kharkhari District: Alirajpur under worked. For Dolomite, fresh lease grant to M/s Sawalia Minerals Grinding Industries for period of 20year from 15.11.1994 to 14.11.2014. This mine was first opened during January 1995 and the lessee is still working this mine. In order to assess the likely impacts on environment due to ongoing mining activity and to have a tool of environment management, lessee has submitted the Rapid Environment Impact Assessment study report for mining project. 2. LOCATION 5.0 of Dolomite Mining lease area is located in village Kharkhari Taluka & Dist. Alirajpur (M.P.). Presently land use of the area is Govt. Waste revenue land. The mining lease was sanctioned under proposed for Dolomite. District/ State Taluka Village Khasara No Area Alirajpur (MP) Alirajpur Kharkhari 169 5.0 Ha 3. ENVIRONMENTAL SETTING Topography of the area is a part of ridge topography and its sanctioned lease area is parallel to trend of the ridge i.e. east west direction. The highest elevation is of 101m in the south direction and lowest one is 93m in the north direction thus total elevation difference is 7m. The general gradient is more prominent towards the north side which further meets to the nala to the pond northeast and northwest direction. In the lease area there are four contour depressions at equal distance which have he gradient in the north direction and further meet to major nala in the north direction. The lease area has major three pits which area develop from east to central among these pits the centrally located pits which area develop from east to central among these pits the centrally located pit depth reached up to 11m. One kuchha road is running in midst of the lease area which further connect to main road. Area has few plantations at his lower altitude i.e. in the northern direction. The lease area is connected by road in the northwest direction. The mining lease area of the dolomite at Kharkhari village in Alirajpur area is located between latitude 22o2230 and longitude 74o2230 and marked in Toposheet no. 46 J/7 Details of Project Settings S. No. Particulars Details 1 Latitude 22o2230N 2 Longitude 74o2230 E 3 Height above mean sea level 101-94AMSL 4 Nearest City Alirajpur about 11 km 5 Nearest Railway Station - 6 Nearest Airport Indore located at about 250 km from the mines by road. 7 Nearest Highway Alirajpur- Dahod State highway 8 Nearest Village kharkhari- 0.5 km 9 Hills/Valley No 10 Ecological Sensitive Zone No national parks and sanctuary 11 Reserve Forest Kotbu RF- 4.5km - ES Ex. Summary 2 M/s Creative Enviro Services, Bhopal M/s Sawalia Minerals Grinding Executive Summary for 5.0 Ha Dolomite Industries mining lease Village: Kharkhari District: Alirajpur Kathiwara RF 4.5km NW Kathiwara PF 3.5km NW 12 Historical Place No 13 Nearest River/ Nalla Hatni Nadi NE 10.0km Sukar Nadi - E- 2.0km Orsang River- NW- 9.0 km Sukta Nadi- SW- 8km Nahkinand Nalla- E- 4km 14 Annual Climatic Conditions Max. Temperature 43oC Minm Temperature 11.0 oC Average Rainfall96-1740 mm 4. TRANSPORT The proposed lease area is accessible by tar road from tehsil headquarter Alirajpur upto Kharkhari (10km) on Alirajpur Dahod state highway and from there is a diversion fair weather road upto Kharkhari village. The distance of the mine site from the diversion is 0.5km. 5. REASON FOR ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT (EIA) The impact of mine on the environment depends to a large extent on its location with respect to Human settlements, meteorological conditions, ambient air quality, water bodies, agricultural and forest land etc. Most of the adverse impacts of mines are amenable to technological control by providing necessary preventive and control measures and finally through effective environmental management of the operating mines. Keeping in view the likely impacts of mines on environment, this Rapid environment impact assessment report has been prepared for submission to State Pollution Control Board and Ministry for Environment and Forests (MoEF) for clearance of the proposed additional mining area. 6. PROJECT DESCRIPTION The proposed area is a part of ridge topography. Almost on the entire area there are outcrops of dolomite. Only at some places there is a alluvial soil cover of only about 0.3 meter to 0.6m thickness. Even the upper most layer of dolomite is saleable. The minerals of crystalline type and buff white in colour. Clay: Clay is brown in color and is formed due to decomposition of Intrusive Granite. It is found to occur as a thin layer. The average thickness of Clay is considered to be about 0.3m to 0.6m. There is no top soil in the area. Dolomite: The area is full of out crops, exposures of Dolomite. It is medium to coarse grain to crystalline. 6.1 RESERVES The Insitu Reserve has been calculated by cross section method. In this method the cross section area of ore body has been multiplied by the distance between two consecutive sections to calculate has been multiplied by B. D. to calculate the Instiu Reserve. There are nine pits have been dug in Ex. Summary 3 M/s Creative Enviro Services, Bhopal M/s Sawalia Minerals Grinding Executive Summary for 5.0 Ha Dolomite Industries mining lease Village: Kharkhari District: Alirajpur the area where dolomite has been exposed upto 12m apart from all pits. We have considered the thickness of dolomite bed as 11m i.e. upto 90 MRL at the present information available which will be modified in future after grant of mining lease. The leasehold area has been divided into three blocks and area of each block has been calculated by graphical method. The reserves will be estimated for individual blocks and summing up the total. Following points are considered while estimating geological reserves. (i) As the area is undulating terrain it has been divided into three blocks and the reserves have been calculated summing up the total. (ii) The working limits are considered within 7.5m of the boundary. (iii) The average thickness of the dolomite bed is considered upto 11m for estimation of geological reserves. (iv) The soil cover is average 0.00-1.00m (gradually increasing from south higher altitude to north at lower altitude ) (v) The bulk density of dolomite is taken 2.65 tonnes/cubic m (vi) Mine waste as in the form of soil cover from development phase which will be mixed with murum and sandy and loamy material and as 5% from production phase which will accountable at the time of mining as the mining loss other wise mine waste will be nil for calculating the reserves Grade flux grade for metallurgical purpose, and mesh size from 80-300 mesh are used under different categories like detergent, filler/fertilizer, mosaic tiles, cleaning powder and coal mines. The face sample when chemically examined gave the following results. Chemical Composition Sample % LOI 45.18 SiO3 1.34 Al2O3+ Fe2O3 2.84 MgO 21.09 CaO 28.87 UD 0.68 Geological Reserve In the proposed lease area operation has been carried out by putting trial pits and dolomite has been encountered in the all pits. Dolomite has been proved upto 20m thickness in the excavated pits and it is continuing below also. The area has been divided into three blocks naming East, West & North West block and calculating the reserves for each block and subsequently summing up the total. The thickness of dolomite bed for estimating geological reserve is considered 12m. In the approved mining plan, geological reserves in proved, probable & possible reserves category were workout for dolomite as below: Dolomite reserves as per Mining plan Ex.