Four people, who illegally entered an open cast mine — which was not in operation— and were feared trapped, excavated a route through the structure to return to safety in Bokaro early on Monday morning, officials said. They were trapped for at least 30 hours. All four, residents of Tilataand ...
Guwahati: In a major tragedy, six miners hailing from Assam have died at an abandoned coal mine in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills on Thursday, once again establishing that illegal coal mining is going on in the state despite restrictions. According to the official sources, five miners died inside the mine and one succumbed to injuries later.
PT Tambang Batubara Bukit Asam Tbk (Bukit Asam), a state controlled company, is one of the largest coal mining companies in Indonesia. It has coal mines covering 66,414 hectares in South Sumatra, 2,950 hectares in West Sumatra, and 18,230 in East Kalimantan. The company has total coal resources of 7.3 billion tons throughout its mining ...
2 Russia Evacuates 140 Coal Miners Amid Reports Of A Fire About 140 coal miners were being evacuated Sunday from a mine in the Russian region of Siberia amid reports of a fire in one of its sections. The news comes weeks after a devastating blast in another Siberian coal mine killed 51 people.
March 13, 2021. Tinsukia: Coal mines under Makum Coalfield might soon become operational as Assam Assembly hopefuls from the Margherita seat in Tinsukia district have made promises to bring back jobs lost during a ban on mining along with the COVID-19 lockdown. Last year, Gauhati High Court banned mining in the Coal India Limited owned …
Firing began when a truck carrying 30 or more coal-mine labourers were passing the Assam Rifles camp area. (Reuters) At least 14 tribal civilians and one security personnel have been "mistakenly" killed when Indian forces opened indiscriminate fire in the remote northeastern state of Nagaland. At least a dozen civilians and some members of the ...
Coal mining is not permitted in the state due to the National Green Tribunal (NGT) ban on the activity in Meghalaya since 2014. The NGT ban came after a petition by Assam's All Dimasa Students Union and the Dima Hasao District Committee had complained that due to rat-hole mining in the Jaintia Hills, the water in the Kopili river had turned ...
Firing began when a truck carrying 30 or more coal-mine labourers were passing the Assam Rifles camp area. "The troopers had intelligence inputs about some militant movement in the area and on seeing the truck they mistook the miners to be rebels and opened fire killing six labourers," the senior police official told Reuters, requesting ...
PT Arutmin Indonesia is a coal mining company operating based on Izin Usaha Pertambangan Khusus (IUPK). Operating for more than three decades, Arutmin has become a preferred coal provider for power plants and industrial plants in Indonesia and the worldwide market. Arutmin has shown rapid development based on the competitive coal production ...
The coal crisis in the country has sparked a 'power struggle', literally, between two Congress-administered states. Rajasthan, which suffered widespread blackouts due to fuel shortage at its power stations in recent months, has knocked at the Centre's doors, saying the Chhattisgarh government is stalling plans to start two coal blocks and raise production from …
"On the evening of 4th December around 1610 hours, when eight villagers were returning home from coal mining work at Tiru in a pick-up truck, were ambushed and killed by Security Forces (reportedly, 21st Para Special Force based in Assam) at random, apparently without any attempt for identification," the report, submitted to the state ...
GUWAHATI: Five persons from the states of Assam and Tripura are feared trapped in a coal mine in the East Jaintia Hills district of Shillong. Jagpal Singh Dhanoa, SP of East Jaintia Hills, issuing a release, stated that six persons came forward as eyewitnesses that led to the mishap on May 21 around 5 pm.
Coal from the region supports business far and wide. A part of Makum coalfield, one of the oldest mining areas in India, with coal from five mines east and southeast of the Dehing Patkai Wildlife Sanctuary, supports thousands of tea factories, thermal power plants, small-scale iron smelters and brick kilns in the Brahmaputra valley in Assam to Punjab and …
Palembang, S Sumatra (ANTARA) - State-owned coal mining firm PT Bukit Asam said it has set the target of coal production for 2021 at 30 million tons compared to 25.1 million tons the previous year. The company will gradually increase production until 2025 when the coal transport capacity of 72.5 ...
GUWAHATI: The business in coal and limestone in Assam involving 500 MT annually for commercial purposes is in for a licencing regime in the Directorate of Geology and Mining (DGM). Now on this business in the state needs a dealer licence from the Directorate of Geology and Mining. Earlier, traders and others carried out this business with trade ...