Tawa Coal Mine

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Tawa Coal Mine is an operating coal mine in Hirapalli, Betul, Madhya Pradesh, India.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Mine Name Location Coordinates (WGS 84)
Tawa Coal Mine Hirapalli, Betul, Madhya Pradesh, India 22.137615, 78.170928 (exact)

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Project Details

Table 2: Project status

Status Status Detail Opening Year Closing Year
Operating 2007

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[1] 0.97[1] 2022[1] Underground 5.2 300* 788*

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
6.683 Tawa Subbituminous Thermal Satpura Thermal Power Station

Table 5: Ownership and parent company

Owner Parent Company Headquarters
Western Coalfields Ltd[2] Coal India Ltd [100.0%] India


Expansion/Extension

Table 6: Project status

* Added capacity of a coal mine refers to the enhancement in the mine's production capabilities beyond its initial production capacity.
Status Status Detail Project Type Project Phase Added Capacity (Mtpa)* Start Year
Proposed Permitted[3] Expansion 0

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 mine is an underground operation with a designed capacity of 0.6 MTPA on a lease area of 520 Ha. It is operated by South Eastern Coalfields Limited, a subsidiary of Coal India.[4] The coal is primarily for use for Satpura Thermal Power Station after the exhaustion of the Pathakhera underground mines which supplied the coal to the plant before.[5]

Expansion Details

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Additional data

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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20240129173121/https://coal.nic.in/sites/default/files/2023-05/23-05-2023.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 January 2024. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20240723001427/http://www.westerncoal.in/images/grade_2021_22.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 July 2024. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20240904165607/http://www.westerncoal.in/images/TAWA_3UG_ENV_EC-2023.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 04 September 2024. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |archive-date= (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)
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