Bhaskarpara Coal Mine

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Bhaskarpara Coal Mine is a proposed coal mine in Ammakhoka, Surajpur, Chhattisgarh, India.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Mine Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Bhaskarpara Coal Mine	Ammakhoka, Surajpur, Chhattisgarh, India	23.355536, 82.751378 (exact)

The map below shows the exact location of the coal mine:

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Project Details

Table 2: Project status

Status	Status Detail	Project Type	Opening Year	Closing Year
Proposed	Exploration	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	9.32	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
28	–	46.91	Jhilimili	Subbituminous	Thermal	–

Table 5: Ownership and parent company

Owner	Parent Company	Headquarters
Prakash Industries Ltd	Prakash Industries Limited	India

Note: The above section was automatically generated and is based on data from the GEM April 2024 Global Coal Mine Tracker dataset.

Background on Mine

The proposed Bhaskarpara coal mine is an opencast (0.76 MTPA) and underground (0.24 MTPA) mine on an ML area of 920 Ha, in Tehsil Bhiyathan, District Surguja, State Chhattisgarh, India. Government of India, Ministry of Coal, New Delhi, vide letter No. 13016/54/2008-CA-1, dated 21st November, 2008, allocated “Bhaskarpara Coal Block”(BCB), jointly to M/s Electrotherm (India) Ltd and M/s Grasim Industries Ltd for captive mining of coal for consumption at their respective end use plants. A joint venture company named “Bhaskarpara Coal Company Ltd (BCCL) was formed by both allottees as joint venture partners for development of said coal block, mining of coal and dispatching to end use plants of joint venture partners.

However, the mine was cancelled in wake of the coalgate scam by the Supreme Court of India. The coal block was further allotted to Prakash Industries Limited in an auction by the Ministry of coal for use at its Integrated Steel Plant at Champa (Chhattisgarh).

The mine is now available for reallocation, making it a likely shelved project until there's a new developer.

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