North Karanpura Coalfield is located in Ranchi, Hazaribagh, Chatra and Latehar districts in the Indian state of Jharkhand.
Location | |
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North Karanpura Location in Jharkhand | |
State | Jharkhand |
Country | India |
Coordinates | 23°43′41″N 85°30′22″E / 23.72806°N 85.50611°E |
Owner | |
Company | Central Coalfields Limited |
Website | http://ccl.gov.in/ |
Year of acquisition | 1975 |
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]
There are large numbers of seams in the North Karanpura Coalfield, some with thicknesses over 72 feet.[2]
North Karnpura Coalfield covers an area of 1,230 square kilometres (470 sq mi) and has total coal reserves of 13,110.84 million tonnes.[3]
Geological reserves in the North Karanpura Coalfield in million tonnes as on 1/4/2010:[4]
Type of Coal | Proved | Indicated | Inferred (exploration) |
Total |
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Medium coking coal | 508.67 | 2799.84 | 413.43 | 3,721.24 |
Non-coking coal | 8990.75 | 2,909.72 | 1,451.53 | 13,352.00 |
Total | 9,499.42 | 5,708.86 | 1,864.96 | 17,073.24 |
CCL Operational Area | Projects |
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North Karanpura Area | Churi underground, Dakra Bukbuka opencast, K.D.H. opencast, Karkatta opencast, Rohini opencast, Purnadih opencast.[5] |
Piparwar Area | Piparwar opencast, Ray-Bachra underground, Ashoka opencast, Piparwar coal handling plant/ coal preparation plant.[6] |
Magadh Sanghamitra Area | Magadh open cast project, Sanghamitra open cast project.[7][8] |
Amrapali & Chandragupta Area | Amrapali open cast project, Chandragupta open cast project.[9][10] |
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.[11] The 57 km long Hazaribagh-Barkakana section of the Koderma-Hazaribagh-Barkakana-Ranchi line was opened for passenger trains on 7 December 2016 by the railway minister Suresh Prabhu in the presence of chief minister Raghubar Das.[12]
ONGC's preliminary assessment of coal-bed methane indicates that four Damodar Valley coalfields – Jharia, Bokaro, North Karanpura and Raniganj – to be the most prospective.[13]