North Tisra, South Tisra Coal Mine

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North Tisra, South Tisra Coal Mine is an operating coal mine in Jharkhand, India.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Mine Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
North Tisra, South Tisra Coal Mine	Jharkhand, India	23.729089, 86.4431996 (approximate)

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Project Details

Table 2: Project status

Status	Status Detail	Project Type	Opening Year	Closing Year
Operating	–	Expansion	2020	–

Table 3: Operation details

Capacity (Mtpa)	Production (Mtpa)	Year of Production	Mine Type	Mining Method	Mine Size (km2)	Mine Depth (m)	Workforce Size
5.1	1.87	Oct '23 to Mar '24	Surface	Open Pit	8.0	244.0	1708.0

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
121.0	2022	133.0	Jharia	Lignite	Thermal	–

Table 5: Ownership and parent company

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Owner	Parent Company	Headquarters
Bharat Coking Coal 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	–	2.5	2.5	2.26	3.17	6.05	–

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

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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