Chotia Coal Mine

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Chotia Coal Mine is an operating coal mine in Salaigot, Korba, Chhattisgarh, India.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Mine Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Chotia Coal Mine	Salaigot, Korba, Chhattisgarh, India	22.780896, 82.476655 (exact)

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Project Details

Table 2: Project status

Status	Status Detail	Opening Year	Closing Year
Operating	–	–	–

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
1.4	1	2023	Surface	Open Pit	11.79	50.0*	334*

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
11.0	–	14.0	Hasdeo Arand	Subbituminous	Thermal	–

Table 5: Ownership and parent company

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Owner	Parent Company	Headquarters
Bharat Aluminium Company Ltd [100%]	Vedanta Ltd [51.0%]; Government of India [49.0%]	India

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

ROM or Saleable	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
ROM	–	0.67	1	0.0	–	–	1

Note: The above section was automatically generated and is based on data from the Global Coal Mine Tracker May 2025 release.

Background on Mine

The Chotia coal mine has a designed capacity of 1 million tonne-per-annum capacity on a mining lease area of 1179.826 Ha.

This block was earlier allocated to Prakash Industries Limited (PIL) which secured the environment clearance for 1 MTPA rpdocution of Chotia-I on 10 November 2015. However, in the wake of coalgate scandal Supreme Court of India, cancelled all allocated coal blocks in Aug 2014. Post cancellation, Govt of India promulgated "Coal Mines (Special Provision) Ordinance" and coal blocks were auction through a electronic bidding process. BALCO won this mine in that bidding process and the said mine was handed over with the existing infrastructure to Balco after making the required payment.

The Chotia coal mines consists of two sub blocks namely Chotia I and Chotia II having mining lease area of 863.00 Ha and 316.826 Ha respectively with a common lease area of 1179.826 Ha. As per the "Coal Mine Development Agreement" (CMDPA), signed between BALCO and Ministry of Coal, BALCO has to annually produce 1 MTPA coal from Chotia.

The first Mining Plan prepared by PIL was approved by MoC in 2004 vide no. 13016/22/2003-CA dated 04.08.2004 and thereafter opencast operation was started in 2006. Subsequently, PIL conducted further exploration in two phases and based on the outcome, the GR was revised and accordingly Mining Plan was revised two times and approved by Ministry of Coal vide reference nos. 13016/22/2003-CA-1 and 13016/22/2003-CA-1 (Vol-III). The 2nd and the last revision of Mining Plan stipulated a peak production capacity of 1Mtpa coal.

The mine has been operational since 2006 and has been producing 1 MTPA from Chotia I. The open castable reserve of Chotia I has almost exhausted. To maintain the existing production level of 1 MTPA from the mine, the change in environmental clearance is envisaged. The Chotia coal mine which consist of Chotia I & II sub block is allocated for use of coal at BALCO's 600 MW Captive Power Plant at Korba District to meet its power requirement for manufacturing of Aluminium products.

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