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Bharatpur Area Operation

Location: 104 km NW from Bhubaneswar, India

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P.O: N. S. Nagar
Bharatpur
India
759148

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Summary

Mine TypeOpen Pit
StatusActive
Commodities
  • Coal (thermal)
Mining Method
  • Truck & Shovel / Loader
  • Surface miner
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SnapshotBharatpur district is one of the main operational areas of Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL) and has of:
1.Bharaipur OCP;
2.Chhendipada OCP (sometimes spelled Chhendipara).

Its flagship project, the Bharatpur Opencast Mine, is a large surface coal mine, supplying both local industries and national power plants.

The Chhendipada coal mine was planned as a mega open-cast project under MCL. The project was in exploration and development stage and had not reached commercial production under MCL.

In 2023, as part of India’s commercial coal mine auctions, the Chhendipada block was auctioned to a private company (Rungta Sons Pvt. Ltd.) for future development.

Owners

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CompanyInterestOwnership
Coal India Ltd. 100 % Indirect
Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd. (operator) 100 % Indirect
Bhartpur Area Operation is effectively a state-controlled asset. It is directly owned by Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL), which is a Miniratna Company domiciled in India and limited by shares. MCL is a 100% subsidiary of Coal India Limited (CIL), in turn, CIL is controlled by the Government of India through a 63.13% stake, with the remainder held by a mix of institutional and retail investors.

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Deposit type

  • Sedimentary

Summary:

The Bharatpur and Chhendipada coal mines are located in the Talcher Coalfield of Angul district, Odisha.

Bharatpur OCP block is created mainly out of three geological blocks viz. Bharatpur, Padma and Kalinga east.

In Bharatpur OCP block altogether, 11 coal seams have been regionally correlated viz., seam I of Karharbari Formation and seams II to XI in Barakar Formation.

The coal seam II is the lower most coal horizon occurring in Barakar formation. Seam II had been correlated as a combined seam i.e. Seam II in Bharatpur North & Padma block and also is being mined as a single seam in the existing Bharatpur OC mine whose boundary has been re-organized to give additional life to the running mine at a rated capacity of 20 Mty.

Bharatpur OCP block is covered by soil varying in thickness generally from 5 m to 16 m. It consists of sandy soil, clay and lateritic soil. The weathered mantle ranges up to 34 m and consists of laterite, sandstone, sandy shale, intercalation of shale and sandstone, carbonaceous shale etc.

The coal seams at Bharatpur are shallow and laterally extensive, yielding a very low average stripping ratio of 0.8 cubic meters of overburden per tonne of coal – indicative of thick coal seams near the surface.

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Milling equipment has not been reported.

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Commodity Production

CommodityUnits2025202420232022202120202019
Coal (thermal) t  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe10,638,581
All production numbers are expressed as ROM coal.

Operational metrics

Metrics2025202420232022202120202019
Coal tonnes mined  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe10,638,581 t
Waste  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe10,304,247 m3

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