Energy Bangla

In naogaon, north-west district of the country, a new coal mine was
likely to find. Geological Suervay of Bangladesh (GSB) conducting a
survey in Tilokpur union on akkelpur upozila at Naogaon. After the
survey GSB initially located the mine in this area.
Now, Mining depth, spread, amount of reserve and the quality of coal
will be determined by exploratory wells. GSB and fuel ministry source
informs, grubber rig has been sent in the spot and necessary actions
also been taken.
GBC and fuel ministry said, the depth of sedimentary basin in Tilokpur
is 1,200m. if the discovery confirmed, the mine will be countries 6th
and most deep coal mine.
Md. Nehal Uddin, general director of GSB, said the digging will start
in December. Until digging the discovery can’t be confirmed. Professor
of Dhaka University, Geology Department, Badrul Imam also agree with
that. He added, all coal mine of north Bangla are in Gondoana basin.
The basin of Naogaon will be deeper because the area is in the
southern site. Beside discovery of mine confirmed after digging.
Till, 5 coals mine was discovered in the country. Those mines reserve
300cr metric tons which is equivalent to 50tfc gas fuel. Boropukuria
coal mine was discovered in 1985; Khalashpir in 1990 and Dighipara in
1995. These three mines were discovered by GSB. Coal mine in Jamalganj
at Jaypurhat also discovered by Geological Survey Department of
Pakistan’s period. Only Fulbaria mine was discovered by a foreign
company named BHP Mineral. Jamalganj mine is 1000m deep and the rest 4
are in a range of 250m to 500m deep.
Only Boropukuria uses tunnel mining system to extract coal. This coal
runes a 250mw local power plant. Recently another 275mw power plant
contraction started in Boropukuria.
Sate owned Boropukuria Coal Mine Company (BCMCL) runes the mine. Only
20 per cent coal of the reserve can be extracted by using tunnel
mining system and there is no other system to extract the rest after
using tunnel mining system.
Recently government decided to extract coal from Dighipara. BCMCL got
this responsibility also. Company source inform, it took a project
estimated tk 3,200cr. 87cr metric tons coal is reserved in the mine
which is located in 328m to 455m deep. Area of the mine is almost 24
square fit.
According to governments mega plan on power they want to generate
20,000mw electricity by 2030. Government will use local and imported
coal to achieve this goal.