COAL
Underground mining is increasingly falling off the map of major producer Coal India Limited (CIL), despite the company planning to add an estimated 182-million tons a year to its production profile by 2020. Higher capital costs, the geological parameters of new reserves and the group’s inability to stop production from underground mines falling have compelled the miner to plan future incremental production entirely from opencut mines.
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