Jhilmili Coal Mine

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Jhilmili Coal Mine is an operating coal mine in Sorga, Korea, Chhattisgarh, India.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Mine Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Jhilmili Coal Mine	Sorga, Korea, Chhattisgarh, India	23.350314, 82.728807 (exact)

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Project Details

Table 2: Project status

Status	Status Detail	Opening Year	Closing Year
Operating	–	–	–

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
0.5	0.31	2022	Underground	–	9.72	300*	#REF!*

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
20.45	2019	–	Jhilimili	Subbituminous	Thermal	–

Table 5: Ownership and parent company

Owner	Parent Company	Headquarters
South Eastern Coalfields Ltd	Coal India	India

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

ROM or Saleable	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
ROM	0.308	0.352	0.35	–	–	0.31	–

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

Background on Mine

The Pandavpara Underground Coal Mine Project has a designed capacity of 0.5 MTPA on a mining lease area of 972.036 ha. It is operated by South Eastern Coalfields Limited, is located in village Sorga, Tehsil Baikunthpur, District Korea, State Chhattisgarh, India. EC was obtained on 30 January 1995 for 0.30 MTPA project involving the existing total lease area of 972.036 ha, of which 201.131 ha is agricultural land, 752.823 ha is forestland and 18.082 ha is govt. land. The lease area has 4 seams – Seam V and IV B of Jhilmili UGP and Seams II and III of Pandavpara falling within the same mine block. The project received its environment clearance for an expansion in capacity from 0.3 MTPA to 0.50 MTPA on 15 April 2009.

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