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)

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Project Details

Table 2: Project status

Status	Status Detail	Project Type	Opening Year	Closing Year
Proposed	Pre-Permit	New	2020	–

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
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. The mine will be open-pit, and Essar will contract with the AMR Group for mining services. Essar plans to begin mining within 2015.

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.

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.

As of December 2019, the Tokisud mine is owned by National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) which planned to begin operations in 2020.

• Operator: National Mineral Developement Corporation
• 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
• 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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