Talabira II & III Coal Mines

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Talabira II & III Coal Mines is an operating coal mine in Talabira, Sundergarh, Odisha, India.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Mine Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Talabira II & III Coal Mines	Talabira, Sundergarh, Odisha, India	21.734804, 83.989432 (exact)

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Project Details

Table 2: Project status

Status	Status Detail	Opening Year	Closing Year
Operating	–	2018	–

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
20	10.03	2022	Surface	–	19.14	50*	1626*

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
547.5	2022	–	–	Subbituminous	Thermal	–

Table 5: Ownership and parent company

Owner	Parent Company	Headquarters
NLC India Ltd	NLC India Ltd [100%]	India

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

ROM or Saleable	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
ROM	–	–	–	1	6	10	12

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

The Talabira coal mines are a pair of coal mines, Talabira II & III, currently owned by Neyveli Lignite Corporation (NLC) India in Odisha state, India. The company began digging the mines in 2019, with a planned capacity of 20 million tonnes per annum, and proposed expansion to 30 million tonnes per annum.

The projects will supply coal to NTPL (a joint venture company of NLC India and M/s TANGEDCO [Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Company]) and Odisha Power Projects.

As of 2020, the mines produced only 0.27 million tonnes. The mines have changed ownership several times until the buyout by NCL India in 2016. The Talabira-II coal block was formerly owned by Hindalco Industries, but was never mined. This coal block allocation was particularly scandalous, and was an important driver in the reallocation of dozens of coal blocks across India in early 2015. Talabira-III was allocated to Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (a subsidiary of state-owned Coal India), but it was also never mined.

• Sponsor: Neyveli Lignite Corporation (NLC) India
• Parent company:
• Location: Talabira village, Sambalpur district, Odisha state, India
• Coordinates: 21.734804, 83.989432 (exact)
• Status: Proposed
• Capacity: 20 MTPA
• Production: 0.28 million tonnes (2020)
• Reserves: 553.98 MT
• In service:
• Permits:
• Coal type:
• Mining method:
• Source of financing:

Activism

The local residents in Talabira are currently staging large scale protests against construction, which began in 2019.

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