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Project Detail:
Jayant Opencast mine is an operating opencast mine of Northern Coalfields Limited (NCL). Since 1976, NCL, a subsidiary of Coal India Limited is a prime producer of non-coking coal, mainly power grade, in the country. It operates coal mines in the states of M.P. and U.P. It is producing coal from different coal seams of Singrauli coalfields in the districts of Singrauli in M.P. and Sonebhadra in U.P. Mining operation is spread over one coalfields only i.e. Singrauli. Singrauli coalfield is the northern most member of the central Indian coalfields.
Singrauli coalfield is located between latitudes 23°47' & 24°12'N and longitudes 81°40' & 82°52'E. The coalfield is about 102 km long from west to east and 45 km wide from north to south occupying a total area of 2202 sq.km The coalfield is largely located in the Singrauli district of Madhya Pradesh and a small area of 80 sq.km in the extreme north-east lies in the district of Sonebhadra of Uttar Pradesh. Mining of coal at present is confined in the north eastern part of Singrauli coalfield.
Jayant Opencast Project of NCL is located in Singrauli Coalfields, in Singrauli district of Madhya Pradesh. It falls within the latitudes 24006’26.08” N to 24o11’40.86” N and Longitude 82o38’2.01” E to 82o40’55.64” E (Topo-Sheet No.63L/12 of the Survey of India on 1:50000 (1976)).
Leasehold area of project is 3177.171 Ha. Location plan of the project in Topographical map of Survey of India and in KML format has been shown in Plate No. 3 and 4 respectively.
The project is located in the south-central part of the Moher Sub-basin of Singrauli Coalfield and is bounded by Dudhichua and Nigahi Projects on the east and west respectively.
Jayant Project site is well connected by both road and rail. Nearest Railway Station Shaktinagar is about 5 km towards east and Singrauli Station is 12 km from the project office. The nearest Airport is in Varansi at 240 km.
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