Eco-friendly Use of Abandoned Coal Mines

Eco-friendly Use of Abandoned Coal Mines

Part of: Prelims and GS-III Conservation 

Context: Coal mines of Coal India Limited have been closed/abandoned/discontinued due to depletion of reserve, spontaneous heating, safety reasons, inundation, adverse techno-economics, financial losses, adverse geo-mining conditions, surface constraints, conversion to opencast mine, etc.

• The abandoned quarries of Coal India Limited(CIL) are used for the following purposes:
  • Dumping /Filling of fly ash in to the worked out area for suitable reclamation.
  • Development of eco and mine tourism parks
  • Afforestation
  • Pisciculture
  • Source to supply of drinking water and other domestic use.
  • Generation of sand from overburden of opencast mines at few places

News source: PIB