Tuesday, 23 October 2012

India to go for underground mining (UG) for coal

The 75 % of India's coal demand is met by domestic production and, according to government plans, that won't change over the next five years. However, India is running out of cheap open-cast coal from existing mines. Unless it starts investing now in underground mines, within a decade it will face a huge leap in energy import costs that could derail industrial projects, crimp economic growth and drive up inflation. The ballooning demand for coal in India, open-cast mining has become the easy

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