Lodna Area

• Lodna colliery is an underground mine, having a mineable reserve of 8.276 million tonnes of cooking coal and 98.219 tonnes of non-cooking coal.^[1]
• Bagdigi colliery is an underground mine having a mineable reserve of 12.290 million tonnes of cooking coal and 95.981 tonnes of non-cooking coal.^[1]
• Joyrampur colliery is an underground mine having a mineable reserve of 0.520 million tonnes of cooking coal and 81.878 tonnes of non-cooking coal.^[1]
• North Tisra colliery is an underground mine having a mineable reserve of 4.12 million tonnes of coking coal and 114.067 tonnes of non-cooking coal. It also has an open cast mine worked in combination with South Tisra open cast mine ^[1]
• Bararee colliery is an underground mine having a mineable reserve of 7.047 million tonnes of coking coal and 24.647 tonnes of non-cooking coal.^[1]
• South Tisra colliery is an open cast mine worked in combination with North Tisra open cast mine. It has a mineable reserve of 1.650 million tonnes of cooking coal and 42.631 tonnes of non-cooking coal.^[1]
• Jeenagora colliery is an open cast mine having a mineable reserve of 0.697 million tonnes of coking coal and 112.379 tonnes of non-cooking coal.^[1]
• Jealgora colliery is a closed underground mine where dewatering is done from the surface.^[1]

Apart from the collieries of BCCL, there also are other collieries in the region:

• Tata Steel has Jamadoba, Digwadih and 6&7 pits collieries of the Jamadoba Group in this region.^[2]
• Steel Authority of India has Jitpur colliery in this region.^[3]

4km
2.5miles

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Damodar River

CT

Baliapur

CT

Suranga

CT

Alagdiha

R

Moonidih

0

BCCL Lodna Area

0

BCCL Eastern Jharia Area

0

BCCL Pootkee Balihari Area

CT

Bardubhi

CT

Sansikhara

CT

Aralgoria

CT

Sialgudri

CT

Pondar Kanali

N

Chasnala

N

Tisra

O

Sudamdih

N

Sindri

N

Rohraband

N

Putki

N

Pathardih

N

Lodna

N

Kustai

N

Kenduadih

N

Jorapokhar

N

Jeenagora

N

Jealgora

N

Jamadoba

N

Chhotaputki

N

Baliari

N

Bhowrah

   

Cities, towns and locations in the southern portion of Dhanbad Sadar subdivision in Dhanbad district
MC: Municipal Corporation, CT: Census Town, N: Neighbourhood, R: Rural/ Urban centre
Owing to space constraints in the small map, the actual locations in a larger map may vary slightly

An overview of the proposed mining activity plan in Cluster IX, a group of 9 mines in the Lodna Area, as of 2012, is as follows:^[4]

1. Lodna colliery, with an underground mine, has a normative production capacity of 0.115 million tonnes per year and a peak production capacity of 0.150 million tonnes per year. It had an expected life of 30 years.

2. North Tisra colliery, with an underground mine, has a normative production capacity of 0.15 million tonnes per year and a peak production capacity of 0.195 million tonnes per year. It had an expected life of 30 years.

3. North Tisra-South Tisra colliery, with an open cast mine, has a normative production capacity of 1.65 million tonnes per year and a peak production capacity of 2.145 million tonnes per year. It had an expected life of 26 years.

4. Jealgora colliery is a closed mine.

5. Bagdigi colliery, with an underground mine, has a normative production capacity of 0.11 million tonnes per year and a peak production capacity of 0.143 million tonnes per year. It had an expected life of 30 years.

6. Joyrampur colliery, with an underground mine, has a normative production capacity of 0.153 million tonnes per year and a peak production capacity of 0.199 million tonnes per year. It had an expected life of 30 years.

7. Jeenagora colliery, with an open cast mine, has a normative production capacity of 0.7 million tonnes per year and a peak production capacity of 0.91 million tonnes per year. It had an expected life of 5 years.

8. Bararee colliery, with an underground mine, has a normative production capacity of 0.17 million tonnes per year and a peak production capacity of 0.221 million tonnes per year. It had an expected life of 30 years.

9. North Tisra-South Tisra expansion open cast mine was a proposed colliery (in 2012) with a normative production capacity of 6 million tonnes per year and a peak production capacity of 7.8 million tonnes per year. It had an expected life of 30 years. The production from NT-ST OCP, Jeenagora OCP and 6 No. incline of North Tisra UG colliery was planned to be closed/ merged/ dovetailed into the proposed opencast.