Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Despite the ban, the technique remained rampant. 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 ...
Most coal mining in India takes place in northeastern Meghalaya state, home to some of the country’s largest coal deposits, amounting to more than 576 million metric tons. ... Rat hole mining ...
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 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.
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.
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
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 ...
This article, and several others, reference the "rat-hole" mining technique. I think we ought to have an article on that. Nø 08:42, 29 November 2023 (UTC) yeah, i was surprised to find no article about it. Leoneix 13:54, 29 November 2023 (UTC)