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Mining became part of Petrobangla operation in 1985, when the erstwhile Bangladesh Mineral Exploration &
Development Corporation was merged with Petrobangla. Till date, major mineable deposits of coal, limestone and
granite has been discovered in Bangladesh. These are often at a deeper depth than conventionally exploited elsewhere.
However, lack of surface or shallower deposits and overall competitiveness against import has encouraged development
of underground mines to exploit such resources.
At present two major mines are operated to extract about 1 million tons of coal and 1.65 million tons of granite
respectively from the Barapukuria Coal Mining Company Limited and Maddhapara Granite Mining Company Ltd.
BARAPUKURIA COAL MINING COMPANY LIMITED

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History:
The Barapukuria coal deposit was discovered in 1985 while the Geological Survey of Bangladesh (GSB) drilled a wild-cat borehole
to investigate a negative gravity anomaly in the area. Since then, a total of 35 deep boreholes were drilled, delimiting the area of
coal resources and determining the structure, and the coal seam characteristics in terms of thickness and quality.
Geological Conditions:

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The surface geology over the entire project area comprises the Tertiary Dupi Tila formation, which unconformable overlays the
Gondwana (Permian) coal-bearing sediments. These are folded into an asymmetric syncline or basin, whose axis strikes
approximately north-south. A major fault forms the eastern limit of the deposit, beyond which, Archaean basement rocks (PreCambrian) are present immediately below the Dupi Tila. Several lesser faults were identified within the coal basin by geophysical
seismic survey. The Gondwana sequence comprises predominantly sandstones, with subordinate siltstones and mudstones,
which contain up to six coal seams in the centre of the basin. The lowest of these, Seam VI is the principal target seam of the mine
project, and has an average thickness of 36m. It consists of a weakly-caking bituminous coal with average sulphur content of
about 0.53% making it an ideal fuel for power generation, which is the primary identified market for the coal. In-seam inclusions of
dirt (non-coal material) are variable, but mainly restricted to the uppermost and lowermost sections of the seam. The total coal
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reserve is 390 million metric tons.

Coal Quality:
Coal quality is determined as average fixed carbon 48%, moisture 10%, volatile matter 36.7%, ash 16.25%, sulphur 0.53%, gross
heating value 27.71 MJ/Kg (11040 BTU/lb,). The coal is ideal for power generation without the need for coal preparation or
treatment. It has low sulphur and chlorine levels indicating that there are no deleterious properties likely to have an adverse effect
on power station operation. In particular, the low sulphur will meet most international environmental standards.
Production Planning:
The design capacity is 1,000,000 tones per annum on a 300 day, working days per year basis. Under the new contract, the yearwise production target is given below:
Period
Production Target(MT)
11 August 2011- 10 August 2012
6,50,000
September 2012- August 2013
7,50,000
September 2013- August 2014
11,00,000
September 2014 August 2015
11,00,000
September 2015- August 2016
11,00,000
September 2016-10 August 2017
8,00,000
Total =
55,00,000
Future Planning:
1)
A project proposal (Feasibility study for extension of existing underground coal mine towards the southern and northern
side of the coal basin without interruption of the present production) has been prepared for increasing the present production
capacity of the Barapukuria Coal Mine.
2)
As a part of feasibility study a hydro geological study has been completed for extracting coal in open pit mine method
from the northern part of the basin. On the basis of the result of this study, a complete feasibility study proposal will be prepared
for establishing an open pit mine in the northern part of the basin.

SALIENT FEATURES of BCMCL

Basic Inform ation

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Discovery

Geological Survey of Bangladesh (GSB) discovered the Coal Basin in 1985

Techno Feasibility Study

M/S Wardell Arm strong, UK w ith the assistance of Overseas Developm ent Adm inistration
(ODA), UK conducted the Feasibility Study and Subm itted report to Petrobangla in May 1991.

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Findings of Techno Feasibility Study

Coal Basin Area

668 hectare (6.68 Sq.km .)

Coal Reserve

390 Million Tones

Depth of Coal

118-509 m eter

Central Area of the Basin 300 hectare

Northern Coal Deposit

281 hectare (Open w indow area)

Southern Coal Deposit

87 hectare (Shallow Depth area)

Mine Redesign Activity

Mine Redesign Activity Approved on 23 July 2000.

Developm ent Work recom m enced on

1st Am endm ent of the
Contract
October 2000

19 October 2002

2nd Am endm ent of the

Contract

23 March 2005

Acceptance Test Run of

Longw all and
Developm ent System

Acceptance Test Run of four Roadheader system and tw o long w all faces (1101 & 1110), out of
15 designed longw all faces w as com pleted in 29 May 2005.

The Quality of Barapukuria Coal:

Ingredients

Quantity in percentage (%)

Ash

12.4

Volatile Matter

29.2

Fixed Carbon

48.4

Total Sulphur

0.53

Assum ed Moisture

10

Gross Calorific Value

25.68 MJ/Kg or 11,040 Btu/lb or 6,072 Kcal/Kg

Rank of Barapukuria Coal In accordance w ith USA Ranking System (ASTM Method) Barapukuria Coal is High Volatile
Bitum inous Coal. So it's an industrial standard coal. It could be used for pow er generation and
dom estic purposes.
Coal characteristics

The m ineable coal of Barapukuria Coal Mine is m ainly hom ogeneous dull coal intersected w ith
bands of sem i dull coal and sem i bright coal. Most of the coal is w eakly coking coal, som e
sections are long flam e coal.

Sale:
Coal delivery to PDB
Coal Price to PDB Coal

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Up to 30 Septem ber 2013 total delivery w as 3,820,991.57 Metric ton in FY 2005-2006: 209,234.57 Mt,
FY 2006-2007: 460,231.11Mt, FY 2007-2008: 491354.170 Mt, FY 2008-2009: 532,487.62 Mt, FY 2009-2010:
501,132.150 Mt, FY 2010-2011: 463,923.17 Mt, FY 2011-2012: 499,971.76 Mt, FY 2012-2013: 643,978.03 Mt.
Price of coal w as US $ 61.50 Per Mt (including VAT us $ 1.50) upto June 2008. From July 2008 it w as
US $ 71.50 per Mt upto June 2010 and from July 2010 the price w as enhanced to US $ 85.50 per Mt
(including VAT us $ 1.50). Finally price w as fixed US $ 105.00 per Mt from 1 Feb 2012.

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Local Sale

Upto 30 Septem ber 2013 total coal sold to the local buyers is 925,259.39 Mt. Up to June 2004:
70,131.35 Mt, , FY 2004-2005: 74,767.77 Mt, FY 2005-2006: 45,020.44 Mt, FY 2006-2007: 5,707.35 Mt, FY
2007-2008: 10,392.73Mt, FY 2008-2009: 258,080.94 Mt, FY 2009-2010: 319,254.71 Mt, FY 2010-2011:
107,795.09 Mt, FY 2011-2012: 332,526.00 Mt, FY 2012-2013: 288,266.00 Mt.

Present Sale price to

Local Buyers

Tk. 11018.00 i.e. US $ 140.53 per ton (Including Loading Charge=34 Tk& Labour Charge=24 Tk, 1 US
$= Tk 78.40)

Manpow er:
Manpow er : BCMCL
Head Office

Perm anent Officer: 119, Perm anent Staff : 43

Contractual Basis: 1, Outsourcing 214 (Officers 06 & Staff 208)

Manpow er : M&P
Contractor Head

Chinese Registered 329 & Local Workers : Registered 1127

Subsidence History:

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Kalupara &
Balaram purVillage

First Subsidence noticed on 11 May 2006 in Kalupara & Balaram pur Village. In the sam e area
second subsidence noticed on 7 May 2008 (1101 & 1103 Face Area).

Moupukur Village

Subsidence Noticed on 14 Novem ber 2008.

Jigagari Village

Subsidence Noticed on 29 April 2009.

Num ber of affected

Village & Mouza

Affected Area

627.73 acre (Including Private Land 618.41 acre, Govt khas Land 4.67 and grave-yard, Mosque 4.65
acre)

Population & Fam ily in

Affected Area

3684 & 592

Business Enterprise

228 nos.

Landless Poor/
Vulnerable/Marginal
Fam ily

247 nos.

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Source: Website of BCMCL (w w w .bcmcl.org.bd).

Maddhapara Granite Mining Company Limited

THE SALIENT FEATURES OF MADDHAPARA GRANITE MINE :

Location

Village: Maddhapara, PS: Parbatipur,

District-Dinajpur.

Discovery

1974

Mode of Mine entry

By Tw o vertical shafts(dia-5m)

Mining Method

Room and Piller Sub-level stoping method

Depth of Mine

240-300 Meter

Total Reserve of Mine

174 million metric tons in the mine area of 1.20 km

Type of Deposit

Granite,Granodiorite,Gniess,Pegmatite etc.

Point Load Strength

24,000.00PSI

Total Extractable Hard Rock

More than 100 million metric tons.

Life of the Mine

70 Years.

Annual Production

1.65Million Metric Tons(5500 metric tons daily).

Proposed sale price per ton

Employment opportunity

Directly 766 persons,Indirectly 10,000 persons

Start of the Commercial Production

May 25, 2007

Source:
Last Update :January 2015

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