Jhiria West Coal Mine

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Jhiria West Coal Mine is a proposed coal mine in Bhalmuri and Soutanchua s, Shahdol, Madhya Pradesh, India.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Mine Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Jhiria West Coal Mine	Bhalmuri and Soutanchua s, Shahdol, Madhya Pradesh, India	23.188893, 82.10159 (approximate)

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Project Details

Table 2: Project status

Status	Status Detail	Project Type	Opening Year	Closing Year
Proposed	Pre-Permit	New	–	–

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	–	–	Surface	Open Pit	4.82	50*	*

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
14.35	–	–	Sohagpur	Subbituminous	Thermal	–

Table 5: Ownership and parent company

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

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 Jhiria West coal mine will be operated by South Eastern Coalfields Limited, a subsidiary of Coal India. The mine has a designed capacity of 1.5 million-tonnes-per-annum on an area of 482.694 hectares. The project lies immediately west of old Rajnagar incline of Rajnagar leasehold area and is part of Sohagpur coalfields under the administrative control of Hasdeo area of SECL.

The mine life is estimated at 12 years.

According to SECL's 2019-2020 Annual Report, the Terms of Reference (ToR) has been granted for Jhiria West OC by India's Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change (MoEF & CC). However, as of August 2022, the EC is still pending.

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