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Rat-hole mining or Rat mining [1] is a process of digging employed in North East India to extract coal, where a narrow hole is manually dug by extraction workers. The practice is banned by the National Green Tribunal; [2] [3] however, the techniques are still employed by artisanal mining operations in several parts of India, especially in Meghalaya.
In 2018, 15 men involved in rat-hole mining in Meghalaya were killed after they became trapped for days due to flooding. After rescue work stretching on for around two months, only two bodies ...
Though the initial attempts at a rescue were complicated because of the kinds of debris created in the collapse, the government brought in "rat-hole" miners who were able to use manual mining methods to get an access pipe to the trapped workers. [9] All 41 workers were rescued, and the collapse triggered a safety audit of other tunnels in the area.
In 2014, Meghalaya's yearly coal production was around 6 million tonnes. [7] In 2014, the National Green Tribunal (NGT), a government body that handles environmental issues in India, issued an order banning mining in Meghalaya, specifically banning mining through the 'rat-hole' technique.
Rat hole mining was banned in the state by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) in 2014 due to health and environmental risks, but it’s still carried out illegally in secluded pockets of the region.
‘Rat-hole miners’ appear to have played key role in final breakthrough to reach 41 trapped construction workers
When heavy machinery broke down trying to break through the debris trapping 41 workers in a tunnel in the Indian Himalayas, authorities called in a group of people whose profession is effectively ...
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