PRODUCTION PERFORMANCE

TECHNOLOGY ADOPTED FOR MINING OF COAL

A. UNDERGROUND MINING

1. Bord and Pillar - The Underground mines are worked mainly by

conventional Bord and Pillar method, manually as well as semi-mechanized
using SDLs/LHDs.
2. Longwall Mining – Mining at Moonidih Project is being carried out by highly
mechanized Longwall system of mining.

B. OPEN CAST MINING

Open cast mines are worked mainly by Shovel-Dumper combination. Two Draglines,
one at Block-II OCP and another at South Tisra/North Tisra OCP, are also in
operation. Other Heavy Earth Moving Machineries (HEMM) includes Drills, Dozers,
Road Graders, Sprinklers, etc.

COAL PRODUCTION TREND

The trend of coal production in Bharat Coking Coal Limited since 1974-75 is shown in
the table below. Production just after nationalization was 17.74 MT which has grown
considerably over the following years.

YEAR 1974-75 1979-80 1984-85 1989-90 1994-95 1999-00 2004-05 2006-07

PRODUCTION (MT) 17.74 20.08 21.84 26.62 28.75 27.90 22.31 24.21

COAL PRODUCTION PROGRAMME (TARGET)

YEAR 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12

PRODUCTION (MT) 25.2 26.5 27.5 28.5 30.0

Physical Performance during 2008-09

The physical performance of the company during the year 2008-09 is as given
below:
( Provisional)

GROWTH OVER
Apr'08 - Mar'09 Same
Sl No Particulars % Achv period LAST YEAR
Last Year
TARGET ACTUAL ABS %

1 Production (L.T)
U/Ground 50.00 41.33 82.66 44.64 -3.31 -7.41
 Opencast
Departmental 165.00 139.42 84.50 130.95 8.47 6.47
Hired HEMM 50.00 56.24 112.48 51.15 5.09 9.95
Cont. Transport From Face 0.00 18.14 25.41 -7.27 -28.61
Total O/Cast 215.00 213.80 99.44 207.51 6.29 3.03
TOTAL 265.00 255.13 96.28 252.15 2.98 1.18
2 Met Coal 43.40 34.83 80.25 35.38 -0.55 -1.55
3 W/Coal Prod(L.T) Coking 24.10 16.06 66.64 16.62 -0.56 -3.37
4 W/Coal Prod(L.T) Non-Coking 12.80 8.66 67.66 7.88 0.78 9.90
5 OB Removal ( L. CUM)
(A) DEPARTMENTAL 410.00 314.10 76.61 338.02 -23.92 -7.08
(B) HIRED HEMM 170.00 228.52 134.42 168.08 60.44 35.96
TOTAL 580.00 542.62 93.56 506.10 36.52 7.22
(C) OB Rehandling 0.00 48.59 - 65.25 -16.66 -25.53
G.TOTAL (OB) 580.00 591.21 101.93 571.35 19.86 3.48
6 WAGON LOADING (F.W.) 2711 2339 86.28 2372 -33 -1.39
7 W/C Desp to SAIL (LT) 24.10 15.89 65.93 16.80 -0.91 -5.42
D/Feed to SAIL (Raw Coal)
8 0.40 0.21 52.50 0.39 -0.18 -46.15
(LT)
Raw Coal (D/Feed) to Chasnala
9 0.83 - 0.83 -
Washery
10 Kalinga (Raw Coal) (LT) 0.00 0.33 - 0.42 -0.09 -21.43
Raw Coal (Washery Feed) to
11 0.00 0.34 1.61
SAIL
12 RAIL 197.28 174.82 88.62 184.59 -9.77 -5.29
ROAD 67.72 70.83 104.59 56.29 14.54 25.83
OFFTAKE (L.T) 265.00 245.65 92.70 240.88 4.77 1.98
13 Hard Coke ( In Tonne) :
(A) Production 40000 297 0.74 14328 -14031 -97.93
(B) Dispatch 0 6796 - 3619 3177 87.79
14 O.M.S (In Tons) (Departmental)
U/Ground 0.47 0.41 87.70 0.42 -0.01 -2.38
O/Cast 3.96 2.92 73.69 3.09 -0.17 -5.50
Over all 1.46 1.22 83.56 1.18 0.04 3.39
System Capacity Utl %
15
(Departmental)
U/G (C) Utl % 67.19 55.28 82.27 57.72 -2.44 -4.23
O/C (C) Utl % 78.14 65.83 84.24 63.69 2.14 3.36
 U/G + O/C (Coal) Utl % 75.30 63.08 83.77 62.06 1.02 1.64
O/C (Coal+OBR) Utl % 79.63 62.23 78.15 65.40 -3.17 -4.85
OBR Utl % 80.03 61.26 76.55 65.88 -4.62 -7.01
Overall Cap Utl % 78.77 61.75 78.39 64.84 -3.09 -4.77

CONSTRAINTS

The problem of fire and subsidence together with high population density and unabated
growth of human settlements and townships has made the coalfield one of most difficult
and challenging. Proper exploitation of coal is hampered due to following constraints:

• Difficult geo-mining condition due unpredictable presence of geological

disturbance like faults, dykes, sills, igneous intrusive, pyrolitizations of seams etc
apart from wide variation in seam configuration and geometry, steep gradient etc

• Many seams are highly gassy and susceptible for spontaneous heating

• The Coalfield is densely populated having large township like Jharia, Karkend,
Katras, Bhowra, Patherdih with high population density Presence of large
number of human settlements since decades in coal bearing area preclude
mining and also limit the equipment size of opencast projects.

• The protective measures for dealing with fire and subsidence becomes difficult
due to illegal occupants and their unwillingness to vacate in spite of notices and
repeated requests

• Presence of large number of surface and underground water bodies in developed

and abandoned workings, some of them are affected by fire/subsidence thus
endangering workings belowground and also attract special statutory restrictions
on operating mines. BCCL is pumping out about 20 tones of water for every
tonne of coal produced which adds to the cost of mining by about 160 Crore per
annum.

• Presence of large network of road and railway lines, some of which has been
endangered due to fire and subsidence

• Presence of 67 number of fires with potential to expand in areas and numbers

• Presence of surface features like railway lines, river/jores, townships along with
waterlogged upper horizons and fire necessitate sand stowing making the cost of
mining prohibitive.
 • Unscientific mining process and unstowed workings in the past have resulted in
serious problem of subsidence endangering safety of railway lines, roads, jores
and buildings.

• Large scale mechanization in virgin seams is not possible due to overlying

developed seams which are either waterlogged/ collapsed/ fire.

Bharat Coking Coal Limited (BCCL) is a subsidiary of Coal India Limited with its
headquarters in Dhanbad. It was incorporated in January, 1972 to operate coking coal
mines (214 Nos) operating in the Jharia & Raniganj Coalfields, taken over by the Govt.
of India on 16th Oct,1971.

Currently, the Company operates 78 coal mines which include 41 underground, 16

opencast & 21 mixed mines. The Company also runs 7 coking coal washeries, 3 non-
coking coal washeries, one Captive Power Plant (2x10 MW), and 5 bye-product coke
plants. The mines are grouped into 13 areas for administrative convenience.

BCCL is the major producer of prime coking coal (raw and washed). Medium coking
coal is also produced in its mines in Mohuda and Barakar areas. In addition to production
of hard coke, BCCL operates a number of sand gathering plants, a network of aerial
ropeways for transport of sand and nine coal washeries, namely, Dugda, Mohuda,
Bhojudih, Patherdih, Lodna, Sudamdih, Barora, Moonidih and Madhubhan.

Contents
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• 1 Overall scenario
• 2 Steps taken
• 3 Achievements
• 4 Projects undertaken
• 5 References

• 6 External links

[edit] Overall scenario

Bharat Coking Coal Limited is one of the consistently loss-making subsidiary company
of Coal India Limited. The losses incurred by the company during 2002-03, 2003-04 and
2004-05 were Rs. 507.13 crore, and Rs. 569.85 crore and Rs. 959.43 crore respectively .
The company has made a turn around in the current fiscal year and has registered a profit
of 1.66 crores during April to December 2005. The paid up capital of the company as on
31.03.2005 is Rs. 2,118.00 crore. The company has accumulated losses of Rs. 7,044.02
crore as on 31.03.2005. The total manpower as on 1.4.05 was 92,268 and as on 1.1.06
was 88,901.

[edit] Steps taken

1)A major step forward was to internalize market premium on coal sold to non core
sector by introducing internet based e-marketing to establish free, fair and transparent
access to coal for all consumers.

2)Taking over the Dhanbad-Patherdih Railway line on fire, dismantling railway line to
commence coal production by digging out the fire with hired HEMM was another major
initiative in this direction.

3)A revival plan was formulated in February 2004 with an objective to reverse the trend
and implement on a fast track, activities required to arrest and reverse trend of fall in coal
production on one hand and focus on value addition on the other.

4)Besides the above a few other initiatives have been taken to improve work culture by
introducing faster decision making, streamlining back up services such as procurement of
materials in time to minimize stock out of production holding and safety items, end to
“dead body politics”, introduction of 100% payment to workers through banks etc.

[edit] Achievements
1)BCCL’s focus on revamping of departmental capacity combined with efforts to deploy
hired HEMM in isolated patches has started yielding results with 9.1% growth in raw
coal production during December, 2005 and 12.5% increase in OB removal in April-
December, 2005 over the same period last year.

2)Washed Coking coal production is growing by around 25% in 05-06 after declining
persistently since 1998-99 to 2003-04.

3)Reversing the trend of persistent losses till 03-04, washeries have earned profit of
Rs.207.55 crores during April to Dec 05 as against profit of Rs. 63.81 Crores in the same
period in 04-05 and losses earlier to that.

[edit] Projects undertaken

A fast track plan to develop the virgin 15th seam at Moonidih for a 2 mtpa coking coal
mine by introducing State of the Art high capacity PSLW has been initiated.

For opening up a large opencast mine, steps have been initiated for development of
Kalyaneswari Project on fast track to produce 2 mtpa medium coking coal plus 3mtpa
non coking coal.
Action has been initiated for amalgamating North & South Tisra to develop a 5 mtpa OC
mine.

To handle the augmented raw coking coal production, a detailed plan of action for
modernization of coking coal washeries, approved by the Board, has been taken up for
implementation.

Decline in production from underground mines is a grey area, which remains a major
cause of concern. A plan for amalgamation of small mines into a few large mechanized
underground mines is being contemplated and is in planning stage.

[edit] References