South Karanpura Coalfield: Difference between revisions

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{{Short description|Coal field in Jharkhand, India}}
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Latest revision as of 18:59, 31 July 2023


Template:Infobox mine South Karanpura Coalfield is located in Ramgarh district in the Indian state of Jharkhand.

Overview[edit | edit source]

In 1917, L.S.S.O’Malley described the coalfields in the upper reaches of the Damodar as follows: "Near the western boundary of Jharia field is that of Bokaro, covering 220 square miles (570 km2), with an estimated content of 1,500 million tons; close by… is the Ramgarh field (40 square miles), in which, however, coal is believed to be of inferior quality. A still larger field in the same district is that called Karanpura, which extends over" 544 square miles (1,410 km2) "and has an estimated capacity of 9,000 million tons."[1]

The Coalfield[edit | edit source]

The South Karanpura coalfield forms an elongated strip along the Chingara fault. Barkakana railway junction is situated at the south-east edge of the field. There are two coal beds:the upper one is 50 feet (15 m) thick and the lower one 38 feet (12 m) thick, separated by sandstone, shales and shaly coal, mixed coal and shale.[2]

South Karnpura Coalfield covers an area of 195 square kilometres (75 sq mi) and has total coal reserves of 5,757.85 million tonnes.[3] Lua error in Module:OSM_Location_map at line 1984: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Lua error in Module:OSM_Location_map at line 1984: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).

Reserves[edit | edit source]

Geological reserves in the South Karanpura Coalfield in million tonnes as on 1/4/2010:[4]

Type of Coal Proved Indicated Inferred
(exploration)
Total
Medium coking coal 513.40 296.23 809.63
Non-coking coal 2620.41 1507.42 1212.65 5340.48
Total 2620.41 2020.82 1508.88 6510.11

Projects[edit | edit source]

CCL Operational Area Projects
Barka Sayal Area Bhurkunda underground, Central Saunda underground, Saunda D underground, Saunda underground, Sayal D underground, Urimari underground, North Urimari/ Birsa opencast, Bhurkunda opencast. The area office is at Sayal, PO Saunda.[5]
Argada Area Gidi A Open Cast, Gidi C opencast, Religara opencast/ underground, Sirka opencast, Sirka underground, Argada underground, Giddi Washery. The area office is at Sirka, PO Argada 829101.[6]
Non-CCL mines Jharkhand State Mineral Development Corporation: Patratu [7]

Transport[edit | edit source]

In 1927, Bengal Nagpur Railway opened the 72-mile (116 km) Barkakana-Muri-Chandil line to traffic. In the same year the Central India Coalfields Railway opened the Gomoh-Barkakana line. It was extended to Daltonganj in 1929. Later these lines were amalgamated with East India Railway.[8]

The Koderma–Hazaribagh–Barkakana–Ranchi line became functional between Koderma and Barkakana in 2015 and 2016.[9][10]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. L.S.S. O’Malley, Bengal, Bihar and Orissa, Sikkim, p.87, Cambridge University Press, 1917 (paper back 2011) ISBN 978-1-107-60064-5
  2. "The Hazaribagh District" (PDF). Geology and Mineral Resources. Retrieved 2008-08-26.
  3. Prasoon Kumar Singh, Gurdeep Singh and Brajendra Kumar Tiwary. "Critical Evaluation of Geo-Environmental Scenario of Damodar River Basin, Inia" (PDF). Retrieved 2008-08-26.[permanent dead link]
  4. "Inventory of Geological Resource of India Coal" (PDF). CMPDI. Retrieved 10 February 2021.
  5. "Central Coalfields Limited". Areas – Barka Sayal. CCL. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
  6. "Central Coalfields Limited". Areas - Argada. CCL. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
  7. "District Census Handbook Series 21 Part XII A" (PDF). Page 10: Minerals and Mining - Captive Coal Mining Blocks. Directorate of Census Operations Jharkhand. Retrieved 10 February 2021.
  8. "Indian Railway History Timeline". Retrieved 2008-08-26.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  9. "Hazaribagh Town railway station opens". Retrieved 31 January 2021.
  10. "Hazaribagh-Barkakana railway line opened". Retrieved 31 January 2021.

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