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East Bokaro Coalfield

Location
East Bokaro CoalfieldLocation in Jharkhand
State	Jharkhand
Country	India
Coordinates	23°48′N 85°45′E / 23.800°N 85.750°E / 23.800; 85.750
Owner
Company	Central Coalfields Limited
Website	Central Coalfields
Year of acquisition	1975

East Bokaro Coalfield is located in Bokaro district in the Indian state of Jharkhand.

Overview

In 1917, L.S.S. O’Malley described the coalfields in the upper reaches of the Damodar as follows: “Near the western boundary of Jharia field is that of Bokaro, covering 220 square miles (570 km), with an estimated content of 1,500 million tons; close by… is the Ramgarh field 40 square miles (100 km), in which, however, coal is believed to be of inferior quality. A still larger field in the same district is that called Karanpura, which extends over 544 square miles (1,410 km) and has an estimated capacity of 9,000 million tons.”

The Coalfield

Location

The Bokaro coalfield lies between 23°45' and 23°50' North latitude and 85°30' and 86°03' East longitude. It spreads 65 km (40 mi) from east to west and 10–16 km (6.2–9.9 mi) from north to south. Bokaro West and Bokaro East are two subdivisions of the field, separated almost in the middle by Lugu Hill (height 960.9 m; 3,153 ft).

Bokaro River passes through the West Bokaro and East Bokaro coalfields.

East Bokaro Coalfield covers an area of 208 square kilometres (80 sq mi) and has total coal reserves of 4,473.66 million tonnes.

Reserves

Geolological reserves in East Bokaro Coalfield in million tonnes as on 1/4/2010:

Projects

Transport

In 1927, the Central India Coalfields Railway opened the Barkakana–Netaji S.C.Bose Gomoh line. It was extended to Daltonganj in 1929. Later these lines were amalgamated with East Indian Railway.

References

1. L.S.S. O’Malley, Bengal, Bihar and Orissa, Sikkim, p.87, Cambridge University Press, 1917 (paper back 2011) ISBN 978-1-107-60064-5
2. S.M. Casshyap. "A Reflectance Study of Certain Coals from the Bokaro Coalfield, Bihar" (PDF). University of Aligarh. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-16. Retrieved 2008-08-26.
3. "Water pollution in Bokaro River". Supreme Court. Archived from the original on 2009-04-10. Retrieved 2010-05-03.
4. "The real face of the Tatas: a Tata rap sheet". Retrieved 2010-05-03.
5. Prasoon Kumar Singh, Gurdeep Singh and Brajendra Kumar Tiwary. "Critical Evaluation of Geo-Environmental Scenario of Damodar River Basin, Inia" (PDF). Retrieved 2008-08-26.
6. "Inventory of Geological Resource of India Coal" (PDF). CMPDI. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
7. "Central Coalfields Limited". Areas – Bokaro & Kargali. CCL. Retrieved 18 December 2020.
8. "Central Coalfields Limited". Areas – Dhori. CCL. Retrieved 18 December 2020.
9. "Central Coalfields Limited". Areas – Kathara. CCL. Retrieved 18 December 2020.
10. "Indian Railway History Timeline". Archived from the original on 2012-07-14. Retrieved 2008-08-26.

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• Mining in Jharkhand
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