Meera Coal Mine

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Meera Coal Mine is an operating coal mine in Anuppur, Madhya Pradesh, India.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Mine Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Meera Coal Mine	Anuppur, Madhya Pradesh, India	23.186224, 81.986798 (exact)

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Project Details

Table 2: Project status

Status	Status Detail	Opening Year	Closing Year
Operating	–	1990	–

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
0.6	0.08	2022	Underground	–	3.08	300.0*	247*

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
5.0	–	–	Sohagpur	Subbituminous	Thermal	–

Table 5: Ownership and parent company

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Owner	Parent Company	Headquarters
South Eastern Coalfields Ltd [100%]	Coal India Ltd [100.0%]	India

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

ROM or Saleable	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
ROM	–	–	–	–	0.07	0.08	0.08

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 mine, also known as the Meera Incline coal mine project, is an underground mine with a designed capacity of 0.375 million-tonnes-per-annum on an area of 308.28 Ha.

The mine started as part of the cluster Govinda Colliery and Radha UG with a combined capacity of 0.512 MTPA. The mines started productions in 1990, however, the Govinda Colliery and Radha Colliery closed in 1999 and 2013 after exhaustion of their capacity. They operated under the consent received from the Madhya Pradesh Pollution Control Board under Air and Water Pollution Control Act. However, for Meera UG to continue operation it had to seek fresh environment Clearance from MoEF&CC India. An application t that effect was made in 2014-15.<ref name=PR>

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