Madan Nagar Block Coal Mine

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Madan Nagar Block Coal Mine is a proposed coal mine in Surguja, Chhattisgarh, India.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Mine Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Madan Nagar Block Coal Mine	Surguja, Chhattisgarh, India	23.392303, 83.211612 (approximate)

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Project Details

Table 2: Project status

Status	Status Detail	Project Type	Opening Year	Closing Year
Proposed	Permitted	New	2024	–

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
12	–	–	Surface	Open Pit	25.23	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
–	–	123	Bisrampur	Lignite	Thermal	–

Table 5: Ownership and parent company

Owner	Parent Company	Headquarters
South Eastern Coalfields Ltd	Coal India	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 Madan Nagar opencast Coal Mine Project of 12 MTPA capacity part of Bisrampur coal field is to be developed by South Eastern Coalfields Limited is located in District Surguja, State Chhattisgarh, India. The project was sanctioned on October 2015 and is likely to be commissioned in March 2024. In response to a right of information request in 2021, the mine is still listed by the Government of India as an active new mine project.

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