N.T.S.T. Jeenagora Coal Mine

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N.T.S.T. Jeenagora Coal Mine is an operating coal mine in Jharkhand, India.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Mine Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
N.T.S.T. Jeenagora Coal Mine	Jharkhand, India	23.7028, 86.4403 (approximate)

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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
–	2.573	2022	Surface	Open Pit	–	50*	754*

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
118.187	–	132.667	Dhanbad	Subbituminous	Thermal	–

Table 5: Ownership and parent company

Owner	Parent Company	Headquarters
Bharat Coking Coal 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

The North Tisra South Tisra (NTST) coal mines is a proposed mine, located in Cluster 9 (BCCL), operated by Bharat Coking Coal Limited, a subsidiary of Coal India in Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Bharat Coking Coal Limited, a subsidiary of Coal India, operates the Cluster 9 coal mines. As of 2013, the proposed North Tisra South Tisra (NTST) opencast mine was set to produce 6 million tonnes per annum, at a maximum depth of 244 m, witha mineable reserve of 155 million tonnes, on 1431 ha. The project remains listed on the companies annual report in 2019 and Piyush Goyal, Hon'ble Minister for Railways and Coal visited the site on October 13, 2018. But in response to a right of information request in 2021, the mine is not listed by the Government of India as an active new mine project. It is presumed shelved.

• Sponsor: Bharat Coking Coal Limited
• Parent company: Coal India
• Location: Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India
• Coordinates: 23.729089,86.4431996 (exact)
• Status: Proposed, Under Construction
• Capacity: 6 MTPA (North Tisra)
• Reserves: 162 million tonnes
• Resources:132.667
• In service: 1972
• Permits:
• Coal type: Bituminous
• Mining method: Surface, Opencast
• Mine size: 14 km2

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