| Lodna Area | |
| Pushpin Map: | India Jharkhand#India |
| Pushpin Label: | Lodna Area |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Jharkhand |
| Coordinates: | 23.7201°N 86.4106°W |
| Subdivision Type: | State |
| State/Province: | Jharkhand |
| Country: | India |
| Owner: | Bharat Coking Coal Limited |
| Official Website: | http://www.bcclweb.in/ |
| Acquisition Year: | 1971-72 |
| Products: | Coking coal |
Lodna Area is one of the 12 operational areas of BCCL located in Dhanbad Sadar subdivision of Dhanbad district in the state of Jharkhand, India.
The Bhowra Area was earlier merged with Lodna Area.[1]
The Lodna Area office is located at 23.7201°N 86.4106°W.The Lodna Area is situated in the central area of Jharia coalfield and is 15 km south of Dhanbad Junction railway station. The Dhanbad-Sindri Road passes through the Area.[1]
The map alongside shows some of the collieries in the Area. However, as the collieries do not have individual pages, there are no links in the full screen map. In the map placed further down, all places marked in the map are linked in the larger full screen map.
Apart from the collieries of BCCL, there also are other collieries in the region:
An overview of the proposed mining activity plan in Cluster IX, a group of 9 mines in the Lodna Area, as of 2012, is as follows:[4]
1. Lodna colliery, with an underground mine, has a normative production capacity of 0.115 million tonnes per year and a peak production capacity of 0.150 million tonnes per year. It had an expected life of 30 years.
2. North Tisra colliery, with an underground mine, has a normative production capacity of 0.15 million tonnes per year and a peak production capacity of 0.195 million tonnes per year. It had an expected life of 30 years.
3. North Tisra-South Tisra colliery, with an open cast mine, has a normative production capacity of 1.65 million tonnes per year and a peak production capacity of 2.145 million tonnes per year. It had an expected life of 26 years.
4. Jealgora colliery is a closed mine.
5. Bagdigi colliery, with an underground mine, has a normative production capacity of 0.11 million tonnes per year and a peak production capacity of 0.143 million tonnes per year. It had an expected life of 30 years.
6. Joyrampur colliery, with an underground mine, has a normative production capacity of 0.153 million tonnes per year and a peak production capacity of 0.199 million tonnes per year. It had an expected life of 30 years.
7. Jeenagora colliery, with an open cast mine, has a normative production capacity of 0.7 million tonnes per year and a peak production capacity of 0.91 million tonnes per year. It had an expected life of 5 years.
8. Bararee colliery, with an underground mine, has a normative production capacity of 0.17 million tonnes per year and a peak production capacity of 0.221 million tonnes per year. It had an expected life of 30 years.
9. North Tisra-South Tisra expansion open cast mine was a proposed colliery (in 2012) with a normative production capacity of 6 million tonnes per year and a peak production capacity of 7.8 million tonnes per year. It had an expected life of 30 years. The production from NT-ST OCP, Jeenagora OCP and 6 No. incline of North Tisra UG colliery was planned to be closed/ merged/ dovetailed into the proposed opencast.