Churcha RO Coal Mine

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Churcha RO Coal Mine is an operating coal mine in Churcha, Korea, Chhattisgarh, India.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Mine Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Churcha RO Coal Mine	Churcha, Korea, Chhattisgarh, India	23.335952, 82.519611 (exact)

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Project Details

Table 2: Project status

Status	Status Detail	Opening Year	Closing Year
Operating	–	1995	–

Table 3: Operation details

Note: The asterisk (*) signifies that the value is a GEM estimated figure.

Capacity (Mtpa)	Production (Mtpa)	Year of Production	Mine Type	Mining Method	Mine Size (km2)	Mine Depth (m)	Workforce Size
1	1.03	2022	Underground	–	3.59	300*	817*

Table 4: Coal resources and destination

Total Reserves (Mt)	Year of Total Reserves Recorded	Total Resources (Mt)	Coalfield	Coal Type	Coal Grade	Primary Consumer/ Destination
33	–	–	Chirimiri	Subbituminous	Thermal	–

Table 5: Ownership and parent company

Owner	Parent Company	Headquarters
South Eastern Coalfields Ltd	Coal India Ltd [100.0%]	India

Table 6: Historical production (unit: million tonnes per annum)

ROM or Saleable	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
ROM	1	1	1	1	1	1	1

Note: The above section was automatically generated and is based on data from the Global Coal Mine Tracker April 2024 release and the September supplement.

Background on Mine

The Churcha RO Underground Coal Mine Project has a designed capacity of 2.10 MTPA on a mining lease area of 3590.147 ha is located in villages, Sardi and Shivpur, Tehsil Baikunthpur, District Korea, State Chhattisgarh, India. The project started operating with a capacity of 0.6 MTPA on a ML area of 2240.952 Ha and recieved its EC on 17 February 1995. The project further secured its environment clearance for an expansion from 0.6 MTPA to 2.10 MTPA on 3 May 2012. The project consists of four units Churcha Underground, Churcha West Underground, Shivpur Incline and Ghughra Incline.

In 2016, the coal production from Churcha coal mine in Baikunthpur area of SECL was stopped for more than four days as a structure of the receiver belt that loads coal from the underground mines to the coal handling plant at Churcha railway station broke down. As a result over 1,000 workers had been deployed in other work. Moreover, there had been loss of over 5,000 tonnes of coal because of the mishap.

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