CIL to revive 12 closed mines
Coal India is planning to revive underground mine production in a bid to boost overall output.
The public sector miner has identified 12 mines with provisional reserves of around 1,060 million tonnes (mt). Of these, eight mines with estimated reserves of 596mt belong to Eastern Coalfields and four mines with a reserve of 464 mt belong to Bharat Coking Coal.
Bengal and Jharkhand stand to benefit from this revival move with all 12 mines spread across the two states. Of the 12 mines, seven are in Bengal.
Coal India’s primary production is from opencast mining with underground mining constituting less than 10 per cent of the overall production.
