Indian Map LONDON, Aug. 18 (Coal Geology)– Platts, one of the world’s foremost providers of energy and metals information, announced that, on September 1, 2010, it is expanding its suite of thermal coal price assessments to include a daily spot value for thermal coal destined for the Indian marketplace. Thermal coal is used to generate [Continue]
Kolkata, Aug 17 (Coal Geology) To meet the rising demand of coal, India will need to import at least 83 million tonnes by 2011-12, Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal said hererecently. ‘The demand projected in the mid-term appraisal of 11th Plan for 2011-12 is 713 million tonnes against which the projected production is only 629.91 million [Continue]
The Indian Coal deposit mainly occur in two stratigraphic horizons: Permian Gondowana and the Tertiary. The Gondowana coal contributes about 99.5% of total coal deposit in India and the Gondowana coal formation is mainly confined within the Peninsular India. [Continue]
