Kathautia Coal Mine

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Kathautia Coal Mine is an operating coal mine in Kathautia, Palamau, Jharkhand, India.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Mine Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Kathautia Coal Mine	Kathautia, Palamau, Jharkhand, India	24.132523, 84.08231 (exact)

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Project Details

Table 2: Project status

Status	Status Detail	Opening Year	Closing Year
Operating	–	2012	–

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
0.8	0.03	2022	Surface	Open Pit	4.5	60*	468*

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
26.011	–	29.293	Daltonganj	Bituminous	Met	–

Table 5: Ownership and parent company

Owner	Parent Company	Headquarters
Hindalco Industries Ltd	Aditya Birla Group	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 Kathautia Coal Mine has a designed capacity of 0.8 MTPA on mining lease area of 938.27 ha is located in villages Kathautia, Kajri, Garikhas, Palhekhurd, Sakhui, Sika and Batsara, Tehsil Patan, District Palamau, State Jharkand, India.

The mine was first allotted to Usha Martin Limited for which the environment clearance was obtained on 19 June 2006. Usha Martin operated the mine and extracted 2.084 MT coal till 31 March 2014. However, the mine was cancelled by Supreme Court in wake of the coalgate scam and further allotted by Ministry of Coal on 23 March 2015 to Hindalco Industries Limited and the Environment Clearance was trasferred on 10 June 2015 In FY 2017-2018 Hindalco achieved 0.80 Million Tonnes production. In FY 2018-19 it achieved 0.798. Presently the project is running with full capacity.

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