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Gevra Area Mine

Location: 107.5 km SW from Ambikapur, India

Regional Office:

Seepat Rd.
Bilaspur
India
495006

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Overview

Mine TypeOpen Pit
StatusActive
Commodities
  • Coal (thermal)
Mining Method
  • Truck & Shovel / Loader
  • Surface miner
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SnapshotGevra Area Operation includes only one mine - Gevra opencast mine (Gevra Expansion OC Project), which is the biggest coal mine of India.

Gevra OC mine is located in the south-central part of Korba Coalfield in Korba District of Chhattisgarh.

On March 5, 2024, Gevra mine was granted environmental clearance to expand production capacity to 70 million metric tons per annum from the current 52.5 million metric tons. The expansion will position Gevra as the largest coal mine in Asia. Life of mine will be 16 years starting from FY 2022-23.

The mine has a strike length of around 10 km and a breadth of 4 km. Eco-friendly blast-free mining technology in the form of Surface Miner, Ripper Mining have been deployed in the mine and one of the highest capacity HEMM machines like 42 cu.m shovel and 240-ton dumper combination are used for overburden removal in the mine. It also has First Mile Connectivity (FMC) equipped with a conveyer belt, Silos and Rapid Loading System.

Owners

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CompanyInterestOwnership
Coal India Ltd. 100 % Indirect

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Deposit type

  • Sedimentary

Summary:

The Gevra block is capped with 4 m to 20 m thick soil cover, the rock exposures are very scanty. The upper barakar formation of thickness more than 250 m in this block is fine to coarse grained sand stone with shale intercalation and coal seams.

The upper and lower Kusmunda seams are the two most important coal seams. The seam thickness of upper Kusmunda is 24.94 to 28.85 m. Lower Kusmunda top split is 27.96 m to 45.20 m and bottom split is 3.14 m to 16.16 m.

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Comminution

Crushers and Mills

Milling equipment has not been reported.

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Production

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All production numbers are expressed as ROM coal.

Operational metrics

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Production Costs

Commodity production costs have not been reported.

Heavy Mobile Equipment

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Mine Management

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