Mine Development
01Driving and supporting underground roadways and galleries that open up the coal seam for production.
Operations & capabilities
Twooperations,oneoperator
Through the Amlabad block in the Eastern Jharia Area of District Bokaro, Jharkhand, Mangalam runs two commercial lines — underground coal across all four pits, and the coal bed methane held within the same seams — all under one operator.
How the coal is mined
Prime coking coal, won underground.
The Amlabad block lies in the Jharia Coalfield — India's principal source of prime coking coal — within the Gondwana Barakar coal measures of the Damodar Valley. The coal is won underground by the bord-and-pillar method, and seam for seam it is prized washery-grade coking coal, the raw material of steel-making. The same seams hold coal bed methane; capturing it improves safety underground and adds a second energy stream. Every part of the work runs to the statutory rulebook — the Mines Act, the Coal Mines Regulations 2017 and DGMS oversight.
Bord & pillar
How underground coal is won in galleries and pillars — and the ground kept stable.
How it works →Prime coking coal
Washery grades W-I and W-II, and why prime coking coal is the raw material of steel.
Coal & grades →Coal bed methane
The gas held in the seams — a safety measure and a second energy stream.
The science →Run to the rulebook
The Mines Act, CMR 2017 and DGMS — the statutory framework every mine works under.
The framework → The deposit in three dimensions
Nineteen seams, mapped.
Reviving a century-old colliery starts with knowing exactly what lies beneath it. We have rebuilt the Amlabad block as a full three-dimensional geological model — every seam floor, its thickness and the faulting between them — from historic borehole records and our own survey work. Drag to explore the sequence.
Amlabad seam sequence
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Collar position21 × Surveyed to ~1–2 m14 × Transformed, ~35 m5 × Estimated position
Built from our own geological model of the block — 19 seams reconciled across 40 boreholes, from historic drilling records and our own survey work. Shown as relative geometry only: deliberately not to scale, and carrying no depths, grades or real-world coordinates. An illustration of the deposit, not a survey document.
The revival, step by step
Bringing Amlabad back.
A colliery that ran for a century, fell silent, and is now being returned to production under a modern operating model.
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A century of mining
Amlabad began winning coal from the Jharia Coalfield more than a hundred years ago. Its pit headframes are among the oldest working landmarks in the Eastern Jharia Area, Bokaro — and its seams among India’s finest prime coking coal.
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2008 · Operations halted
After the guide rope of the No. 2 pit’s chute gave way, the colliery was stopped on safety grounds. It would stay shut for the better part of two decades.
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A prime resource left idle
For years the seams sat unworked while India imported the very grade of coking coal they hold — the raw material its steel plants depend on.
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Revival through an MDO
BCCL moved to bring the mine back through the mine developer & operator (MDO) model on a revenue-sharing basis, engaging Mangalam Coalfield Private Limited as the operator.
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Formalities completed, restart directed
With the approvals and agreements in place, BCCL’s leadership directed the restart of Amlabad in MDO mode, targeting a return to production.
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A 25-year horizon
Reopened, Amlabad is set to supply prime coking coal for around two decades — import substitution for steel and energy security — with coal bed methane from the same seams as a second, cleaner stream.
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February 2026 · Beyond coal
On the founder’s 60th birth anniversary, the Mangalam Chikitsalaya opened at the colliery — free treatment for the workforce and the villages around it.
Timeline compiled from public press coverage of the Amlabad revival; see In the news. Specific production figures and internal plans are not published here.
What we do
Two operations, one operator.
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Coal · Mining
Reviving the Amlabad pits
Restoring the historic underground workings — Pit No. 1, 2, 3 and 4 — across revival, development and dewatering, to power India’s industrial growth through responsible coal.
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Coal Bed · Methane
Energy within the seam
Commercially capturing the methane held inside the coal seams — a cleaner energy stream from the same block, put to use rather than vented to the atmosphere.
The four Amlabad pits · Eastern Jharia Area, Bokaro
Reviving every shaft.
Hover or tap a shaft to see its stage. Interactive cross-section — built with Magic motion.
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Pit No. 1
RevivalHistoric underground working under revival as part of the Amlabad block restoration.
Capabilities
How we operate.
Four core capabilities run every working district to standard — a real 21st.dev Magic bento, themed to the Mangalam palette.
Underground Operations
02Shift-by-shift production, reconciliation and structured reporting across every working district.
Electrical & Mechanical
03DGMS-approved equipment and statutory testing that keep machinery safe and certified.
Statutory Compliance
04Operating to the Coal Mines Regulations 2017 and the Mines Act, with qualified officials in every position.