Coal India to restart closed underground mines
New Delhi: State-run Coal India NSE -0.79 % is readying a strategy to retrieve production from underground mines where mining was discontinued due to several challenges.
The company has identified 12 such mines with provisional mineable reserves of around 1,060 million tonnes (MTs). Of these 12 mines, eight belong to Eastern Coalfields Ltd (ECL) and the remaining four fall under Bharat Coking Coal Limited (BCCL), spread over the states of West Bengal and Jharkhand.
