Tokisud North Coal Mine
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Tokisud North Coal Mine is a proposed coal mine in Tokisud, Hazaribagh, Jharkhand, India.
Location
Table 1: Project-level location details
Mine Name | Location | Coordinates (WGS 84) |
---|---|---|
Tokisud North Coal Mine | Tokisud, Hazaribagh, Jharkhand, India | 23.701, 85.231 (approximate) |
The map below shows the approximate location of the coal mine:
Project Details
Table 2: Project status
Status | Status Detail | Project Type | Opening Year | Closing Year |
---|---|---|---|---|
Proposed | Pre-Permit | New | 2020 | – |
Table 3: Operation details
Capacity (Mtpa) | Production (Mtpa) | Year of Production | Mine Type | Mining Method | Mine Size (km2) | Mine Depth (m) | Workforce Size |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2 | – | – | Surface | Open Pit | 5.85 | 220 | * |
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 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
52 | – | 103 | South Karanpura | Lignite | Thermal | Mahan Super Thermal Power Project |
Table 5: Ownership and parent company
Owner | Parent Company | Headquarters |
---|---|---|
NMDC Ltd | NMDC Ltd [100%] | 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
Tokisud North coal mine is a proposed 2 million ton-per-annum (MTPA) coal mine in Jharkhand state, India. Rights to the previously unmined 2.3 million ton-per-annum Tokisud North coal block were sold to Essar Power (a subsidiary of the Essar Group) in March 2015. Essar will use the coal to power its new 1,200-MW Mahan Super Thermal Power Project in Madhya Pradesh, which has been idling due to a lack of coal for 18 months.[1][2][3] The mine will be open-pit, and Essar will contract with the AMR Group for mining services. Essar plans to begin mining within 2015.[4]
Rights to the Tokisud North coal block had been previously owned by GVK Coal (Tokisud) Company, a subsidiary of GVK, which previously won a bid for this coal block in order to supply the Goindwal Sahib Thermal Power Plant; however, GVK apparently did not take advantage of the coal block, and the block was reauctioned in 2015.[5][6]
The project involves the relocation of the villages of Devgarh, Urej and Ango, consisting of 1,207 people in total; it is unclear whether this relocation has already been conducted.[2]
As of December 2019, the Tokisud mine is owned by National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) which planned to begin operations in 2020.[7]
- Operator: National Mineral Developement Corporation[7]
- Owner: National Mineral Development Corporation
- Location: Tokisud village, Hazaribagh district, Jharkhand state, India
- Coordinates: 23.701, 85.231 (exact)
- Status: Proposed
- Capacity: 2 MTPA
- Reserves: 52 MT[8]
- Start Year: 2015 (operations to be restarted in 2020)
- Permits: Transfer of EC from GVK to Essar, MoEF&CC India, 13 May, 2015; Transfer of EC from Essar to NMDC, MoEF&CC India, 9 February, 2021
- Coal Type: Thermal
- Mine Size: 5.85 km2
- Mine Type: Surface
- Source of Financing:
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References
- ↑ Essar Power MP Ltd. Completes Acquisition of Tokisud North Coal Block, Essar Group press release, 24 Mar. 2015.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Tokisud North Coal Mine, Green Clearance Watch, accessed May 2015.
- ↑ Amit Gupta, Ramgarh coal for Essar's MP plant, The Telegraph, 24 Mar. 2015.
- ↑ Tokisud North Mine, MSTC website, accessed May 2015.
- ↑ GVK, "Request for qualification notice", GVK Coal (Tokisud) Company Private Limited, June 2011.
- ↑ GVK, "Investors", GVK website, accessed January 2012.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 NMDC aims to make Rohne, Tokisud coal mines operational by next one year, Economic Times, December 26, 2019
- ↑ Tokisud North Coal Mine, MSTCECommerce], accessed May 2020