Ramnagar Coal Mine

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Ramnagar Coal Mine is an operating coal mine in Ramnagar, Paschim Bardhman, West Bengal, India.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Mine Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Ramnagar Coal Mine	Ramnagar, Paschim Bardhman, West Bengal, India	23.756027, 86.835903 (exact)

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Project Details

Table 2: Project status

Status	Status Detail	Opening Year	Closing Year
Operating	–	1920	–

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
–	0.57	2022	Surface	Open Pit	–	50*	441*

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
–	–	–	Raniganj	Subbituminous	Thermal	–

Table 5: Ownership and parent company

Owner	Parent Company	Headquarters
Steel Authority of India Ltd	Steel Authority of India [SAIL]	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

Ramnagar Colliery Project is located in Ramnagar, District Paschim Bardhman in the state of West Bengal, India. It is part of the Raniganj coalfields which produces non-coking coal.. The project used to be part of the three collieries owned by IISCO Steel Plant in Chasnala, Jitpur and Ramnagar, together accounting for more than 125 million tonnes of coking coal..

The Indian Iron & Steel Company (IISCO), a SAIL subsidiary, was amalgamated with SAIL on 16th February 2006 and renamed IISCO Steel Plant (ISP). This full-fledged integrated steel plant is one of India’s oldest. Established as an industrial enterprise in 1918, IISCO produced iron from an open-top blast furnace at Hirapur (later to be called Burnpur) in West Bengal for the first time in 1922. The plant was progressively upgraded to a capacity for production of 4.26 lakh tonnes of saleable steel and 2.54 lakh tonnes of pig iron annually.

As per the SAIL Annual reports, in the Financial Year 2018-19, production in captive collieries of the Company was about 0.30 MT and in FY 2017-18 0.37 MT of non-coking coal from Ramanagar Collieries.

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