Team News Riveting
New Delhi, October 1
Power giant NTPC Limited on Sunday said the Talaipalli coal mining project in Chhattisgarh’s Raigarh district started commercial operation with effect from midnight.
The Talaipalli coal mine is located in the Mand-Raigarh Coalfields, near the Talaipalli village in the Gahrghoda block of Raigarh district. It is a combined open-pit and underground coal mining project. The Ministry of Mine has allocated the Talaipalli coal block to NTPC to develop a captive coal mine for its Lara Super Thermal Power Plant, located at a distance of 65 km in the same district.
“We wish to inform that based on achievement of approved norms and due approvals, Talaipalli Coal Mining Project, is declared on commercial operation w.e.f. 00:00 hrs. of 01.10.2023,” NTPC Limited said in a regulatory filing today.
The block has total estimated mineable reserves of approximately 843.68 million tonnes (Mt). The project is expected to produce up to 18.72 million tonnes per annum (Mtpa) of coal over an estimated mine life of 52 years.
Partial mining operations at the Talaipalli started in October 2019 which produced only 0.25Mt of coal as of July 2020.
The Taliaipalli coal mine will feature open-cut mining, which will be followed by the start of underground mining after 20 years of operations. The open-cut operation is estimated to have an output capacity of 18 Mtpa while the underground operations will produce approximately 0.72 Mtpa.
In November last year, NTPC dispatched the first coal rake from captive Talaipalli coal mines to Lara Super Thermal Power Project in Chhattisgarh.
