South Karanpura Coalfield

Location
South Karanpura Location in Jharkhand
State	Jharkhand
Country	India
Coordinates	23°38′17″N 85°18′22″E / 23.63806°N 85.30611°E / 23.63806; 85.30611
Owner
Company	Central Coalfields Limited
Website	http://ccl.gov.in/
Year of acquisition	1975

South Karanpura Coalfield is located in Ramgarh district in the Indian state of Jharkhand.

In 1917, L.S.S.O’Malley described the coalfields in the upper reaches of the Damodar as follows: "Near the western boundary of Jharia field is that of Bokaro, covering 220 square miles (570 km²), with an estimated content of 1,500 million tons; close by… is the Ramgarh field (40 square miles), in which, however, coal is believed to be of inferior quality. A still larger field in the same district is that called Karanpura, which extends over" 544 square miles (1,410 km²) "and has an estimated capacity of 9,000 million tons."^[1]

The South Karanpura coalfield forms an elongated strip along the Chingara fault. Barkakana railway junction is situated at the south-east edge of the field. There are two coal beds:the upper one is 50 feet (15 m) thick and the lower one 38 feet (12 m) thick, separated by sandstone, shales and shaly coal, mixed coal and shale.^[2]

South Karnpura Coalfield covers an area of 195 square kilometres (75 sq mi) and has total coal reserves of 5,757.85 million tonnes.^[3]

3km
2miles

Damodar River

Urimari

CT

Patratu

CT

CCL Barka Sayal
Area Office

A

Urimari UGP

U

Saunda D OCP

O

North Urimari OCP

O

Bhurkunda OCP

O

Bhurkunda Colliery

U

  

Collieries in CCL Barka Sayal Area (South Karanpura Coalfield)
U: Underground Colliery, O: Open Cast Colliery, A: Administrative headquarters, CT: census town
Owing to space constraints in the small map, the actual locations in a larger map may vary slightly

3km
2miles

River

Damodar

Sirka

CT

Religara

CT

Gidi

CT

CCL Argada Area Office

A

Gidi washery

W

Argada Colliery

U

Sirka colliery

O

Religara colliery

M

Gidi colliery

O

  

Collieries in the CCL Argada Area (South Karanpura Colafield)
U: Underground colliery, O: Open Cast colliery, M: Mixed colliery, W: Washery, S: Facility, A: Administrative headquarters, CT: census town, H: historical, religious, tourist centre
Owing to space constraints in the small map, the actual locations in a larger map may vary slightly

Geological reserves in the South Karanpura Coalfield in million tonnes as on 1/4/2010:^[4]

In 1927, Bengal Nagpur Railway opened the 72-mile (116 km) Barkakana-Muri-Chandil line to traffic. In the same year the Central India Coalfields Railway opened the Gomoh-Barkakana line. It was extended to Daltonganj in 1929. Later these lines were amalgamated with East India Railway.^[8]

The Koderma–Hazaribagh–Barkakana–Ranchi line became functional between Koderma and Barkakana in 2015 and 2016.^[9][10]