5. MINE PROFILE & GEO-MINING CONDITIONS OF PVK NO.5 INCL.

5.1 GENERAL MINE INFORMATION

5.1.1 MINE / PROJECT

PVK NO.5 Incline mine is an ongoing project. Coal production started

from No.5 incline in 1952. The Project Report is based on "Geological
report on NO.5 Incline block, Kothagudem colabelt, Godavari valley
Coalfield, prepared in October-1982.

5.1.2 MINE LOCATION

PVK NO.5 INCLINE mine is located in NO.5 Incline Geological Block. The
block under reference, geologically forms an integral part of Kothagudem
colabelt and constitutes the South Central part of the belt. It is about
8 kms South East of Kothagudem town. PVK NO.5 Incline operates under
the Singareni Colliries company Ltd,. Headquartes at Kothagudem,
Khammam District, Telangana state.

Location:

Latitude - N 170 29" 13 to 170 30 35.

Longitude - E 800 39 28 to 800 41 00.
Covered under survey of India Toposheet no. 65 C/11.

5.1.3 ACCESSIBILITY

Nearest Airport : Shamshabad, Hyderabad is about 320 kms

(Telangana, India).

An emergency helipad is also available near

Kothagudem.

Nearest Railway : Bhadrachalam Road Railway Station,

Station is about 8 kms.

Approach by Road : Kothagudem Town, about 8 kms.

District head quarters - Khammam is about
70 km.

State capital Hyderabad is about 280 km.

5.1.4 COMMUNICATION

The block is well connected by a net work of roads. Bhadrachalam-

Vijayawada (via Yerrakunta) road passes immediate west of the block.
The nearest town Kothagudem is also connected to the district
hedquartes Khammam and state capital Hyderabad by asphalted road.
The nearest railway station is Bhadrachalam Road and is located at a
distance of about 8 Km away from PVK NO.5 Incline.

5.2 GEOLOGY

5.2.1 Geological Boundary:-

The proposed Continuous Miner panels area is falling in Dip side of
5 Incline mine block.
The Geological block boundaries are as follows:-

In the North - Kothagudem Shaft Block.

In the South - PVK-5 Incline mine.

In the East - VK-7 / Kothagudem Shaft Block.

In the West - Andrews 1 and 2 Inclines.

Drilling details:-

In the proposed Continuous miner panel area (3.29 sq.kms

approximatelty), a total of 30 boreholes were drilled. The borehole
density in this area works out to 9 BHs per sq.km.
5.2.2 Geology of the Mining Block

Regional setting:-

5.2.2.1 GENERAL GEOLOGY OF GODAVARI VALLEY COAL FIELD:

The Godavari Valley Coalfield defines a major NNW-SSE trending basin

belt on Pre-Cambrian platform, which exhibits a half graben structure.
The linear belt extends from north of Boregoan, Maharashtra in the north
to Eluru on the east coast of Andhra Pradesh. It follows the course of
Godavari and Pranhita rivers for over a length of about 470 kms. Though
there is a geological continuity of the Gondwana sediments from one end
to other, the structure for a length of about 350km lying mostly in
Telangana state is referred as Pranhita-Godavari or "Godavari Valley
Coalfield while the adjacent part in Maharashtra is designated as the
Wardha Valley Coalfield."

The Pranhita - Godavari Valley Coalfield is the store house for the non-
coking coal in the southern part of India covering an area of
17,000 sq kms. bounded by North Latitudes 16o32' to 19o33' and East
Longitudes 79o12' to 81o39' through Adilabad, Karimnagar, Warangal and
Khammam Districts of Telangana State & West Godavari of Andhra
Pradesh State.

The Lower Gondwana sediments occur mostly along the southwestern

peripheral parts of the basin and also at few places on the north-eastern
margin. Few well defined outliers and structural inliers are also present.
The continuity of Barakar coal measures is broken and missing at places
on account of major faulting and therefore different coal bearing areas
occur as isolated pockets and are generally treated as separate coal belts.

The stratigraphic sequence of the entire Godavari Valley Coalfield is

presented here under.
 Generalised Stratigraphy of Pranhita-Godavari Basin
Thickness
Age Group Formation General Lithology
(m)
Holocene Recent Alluvial sands and clays 25+
..........................Unconformity...................
Upper
Deccan Trap Basaltic flows 65
Cretaceous
..........................Unconformity...................
Up. Jurassic Chikiala/ Brownish red and buff ferruginous sandstones with
conglomerates and a few clay beds. 300
Lr.Cretaceous Gangapur
..........................Unconformity...................
Pale brown sandstones with red clays with a few
Lower to Early thin persistent lime stone bands and local
Middle Kota carbonaceous 675
UPPER GONDWANA

Jurassic
..........................Unconformity...................
Alternate sandstone and clay beds. Lime pellet
rocks, coarse, buff sandstones with clay galls.
(Dharmaram and Maleri)

Coarse grained sandstone with clay galls and a few

Maleri 1000
Middle to biozone clay intercalations (Bhimaram)
Upper Triassic
Soft red mud stones with calcareous bands
(Yerrepalli bio-zone)

Upper member: coarse grained ferruginous

sandstone with clay clasts and pebbles and 500
subordinate violet cherty silt stones & pebble beds
Middle member: Alternating sequence of medium
Kamthi
Upper Permian grained white to greenish grey white sandstone 800
to Lower and buff to greenish grey clays.
Triassic Lower member :Medium to coarse grained greyish
200
white calcareous sandstones with a few coalseams
LOWER GONDWANA

Medium to coarse grained, greenish grey to

Barren greyish white feldspathic sandstones with
Upper Permian 500
Measures subordinate variegated clays and micaceous
siltstone.
Upper member: Coarse grained white sandstone
with subordinate shales and coal seams.
Upper part of
Barakar Lower member coarse grained sandstone with 300
Lower Permian
lenses of conglomerates, subordinate shales/clays
and few thin bands of coal
Fine grained sandstone, splintery green
Lower Permian Talchir 350
clays/shales chocolate coloured clays, pebble beds

and tillite.
Sullavai
Upper
..........................Unconformity................... 545
Proterozoic
BASEMENT

Medium to coarse grained white to brick red sand

stone, at places quartzitic and mottled shales.
Pakhal Greyish white to buff colored quartzite, Grey
Lower,
shales, phyillites and marble.
Proterozoic
..........................Unconformity........................ 3335
Archaean Granites, banded gneisses, biotite gneisses,
PRECAMBRIAN hornblende gneisses, quartz magnetite schist,
biotite schist, quartz and pegmatite veins.
5.2.2.2 GEOLOGY OF KOTHAGUDEM COAL FIELD:
Before describing the geology of the block under reference, a brief
account on the regional geology of Kothagudem Coalfield is presented for
proper perspective and better understanding on the geological set up of
the region. Area lying from Hemachandrapuram and to the South of
Kothagudem township upto Penagadapa village is known as Kothagudem
Coal belt. This coal belt is bound by North Latitude 17025'30" to
17032'30" and East Longitude 8003730 to 8004200" enclosed within an
area of 284.00 Sq.Km. Based on the earlier geological mapping and
interpretation of sub-surface data, the stratigraphic succession in
Kothagudem coal belt is given below.

STRATIGRAPHIC SUCCESSION IN KOTHAGUDEM COALBELT

Maximum
Group
Age

Formation Lithology Thickness

(m)

Coarse to pebbly felspathic Sandstone

Kamthi 650+
with shale/clays and coal seam
LOWER GONDWANA

Medium to Coarse grained grey

Barren
sandstone with greenish grey clay 160
PERMIAN

Measures
and shales

predominantly sandstone with

Barakar regionally persistent coal seams and 255
subordinate shales and clays

Greenish sandstone, clays, shales,

Talchir 44+
conglomerates and boulder beds
--------------------------- Unconformity ----------------------

Archaean Granite gneisses, amphibolites /

garnetiferous micaceous schists.
Local setting:-

The proposed Continuous Miner panel area is lying in the dip side of
PVK NO.5 Incline. It is located the South central part of Kothagudem
Coalbelt of Godavari Valley Coalfields. The outcrops are scanty and
are confined mostly to stream sections and few isolated low grounds
(bad land topography), hence the stratigraphic sequence of the bock
is arrived mainy based on sub-surface data and presented here under.

Table-A

Stratigraphic Succession of the area

Max.
Age Group Formation General Lithology Thickness
(m)
Soil and Weathered
RECENT 16
Mantle
Predominantly
sandstone, pebbles,
GONDWANA

pebbly sandstones
BARAKAR
PERMAIN

LOWER

with Carb.clay bands

with five regionally 215 +
correlatable coal
seams and
subordinate shales
and clays

In this area, Coal bearing Barakar formation predominantly comprises

medium to coarse grained grey white arenaceous sandstones with
sub-ordinate grey shales, with three persistent workable coal seams
viz: Queen (Top) Seam, King Seam and Bottom seam. Apart from the
above, there are many smaller coal horizons of varying thickness
recorded within the Barakar formation.
5.2.3 Description of Coal seams:-

A total of six seams viz: No. 1 Seam (kamthi formation), Queen (Top)
Seam, Index-1 and 2, King Seam and Bottom seam have been encountered
in the block. The sequence of coal seams, their thickness variation and
range of inter seam partings in the block are given below:-

Thickness
(As encountered in
Seam Description
drilled BHs)
(m)
Strata Predominantly sandstones with few clay bands 16.00
Composite Seam with intercalations of carb
No.1 Seam 7.94-19.72
shale & clay bands
Predominantly medium to coarse grained grey
Parting 170.64-206.94
white sand stone with carb shale & clay bands
Queen Coal seam with carb shale & carb clay
2.14-10.20
(TOP) intercalations
Parting Medium grained grey sand stone 12.50-16.30

Index-1 Coal seam with clean coal band 0.30-1.56

Parting Medium grained grey sand stone 4.55-7.93

Index-2 Coal seam with clean coal band 0.46-0.92

Parting Medium grained grey sand stone 17.14-23.47

King Seam Coal seam with thin carb shale bands 3.57-9.47

Parting Medium grained grey sand stone 3.20-8.31

Bottom
Coal seam with clean coal bands 0.30-4.62
seam
Strata Predominantly Sandstone 44.00 +
5.2.4 Dip & strike:-

The coal seams in general trend NW-SE and dip towards NE and
the average gradient is 1 in 9.
5.2.5 Faults :-

In the proposed Continuous miner panel area, three faults viz: F9-F9,
F13- F13 and F16-F16 have been deciphered. The details of the faults are
presented here under.

Sl. Fault Type of Trend Throw Linear Evidences of Faulting

No No. Fault of Fault amount Extension
and
Direction
1. F9- Oblique ENE- 0 to 30m 1000m Proved in underground
F9 fault WSW towards workings of 1 seam.
NNW

2. F13- Oblique WNW 0 to 80m 2500m Proved in underground

F13 fault towards workings of 1 seam.
-ESE
NNE Reduction of parting
thickness between
Queen seam and King
seam in BH.NO. MKD-8.
Difference in floor
reduced levels between
BH.NO. A/285 & MKD-1.
3. F16- Oblique NNW- 5 to 30m 1000m Difference in floor
F16 fault SSE towards reduced levels between
WSW-S BH.NO. KSB-4 & MKD-8.

5.2.6 Roof & Floor Strata of King and Queen (Top) Seams:-

1. King Seam :
Medium grained grey sandstone forms the immediate roof
and grey / carb. Sandstone forms the immediate floor in
most of the boreholes.
2. Queen (Top) Seam
Carbonaceous clay, shale forms the immediate roof while
Carbonaceous sandstone / Shaly sandstone / Carbshale /
sandy shale forms immediate floor in most of the
boreholes.