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Lignite
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 Lignite - popularly termed as 'Brown Gold' all over the world. Gujarat is rich in high grade Lignite. To explore this GMDC brought in one of the world's best known mining technology in this field - TAKRAF of Germany.
This has made GMDC a largest merchant seller of lignite in the Country. GMDC's operations have expanded geographically to other Indian States.. |
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| Panandhro |
 Large reserves of Lignite, a valuable energy mineral, are located in Kutch district of northern Gujarat . Deposits of 200 milliontones of lignite have been identified at different locations and geological investigation are on to locate more lignite. Panandhro, the largest of these pockets , has been developed as major mining center of Lignite which is used as a fuel in a large number of process boilers in the state as well as to produce power to meet ever. the inimng activity was started here in 1974 and substantial expansion was undertaken in 1988,89 and 90.
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 Current average production from Panandhro mine is about 35 lakh tonnes per year. This lignite is being supplied to GEB’s Power Station at Panandhro and GMDC’s own Power Station at Chher.
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| YEARWISE LIGNITE PRODUCTION IN M.T. |
| Project |
2009-10 |
2008-09 |
| Panandhro |
28,38,376 |
36,18,164 |
| Rajpardi |
9,54,777 |
9,69,000 |
| Mata-No-Madh |
28,87,335 |
22,10,687 |
| Tadkeshwar |
10,48,016 |
9,25,764 |
| Bhavnagar |
6,51,399 |
3,84,156 |
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