Google Satellite map of mines in Keonjhar
Orissa's environment is severely threatened by large-scale mining activities that are expected to intensify in coming years. Forty-three steel plants are poised to come up in Orissa, which will require over 2300 million tonnes of iron ore in the next 25 years. Stee and mines department officials say a few more steel MoUs are in the pipeline. Most of the iron ore mines are concentrated in Keonjhar and adjacent Sundargarh districts. Environmentalists are now up in arms against the large-scale mining of iron in Keonjhar district as it would pollute the Baitarani River, the lifeline of Keonjhar. EPGOrissa pinged me the following pictures of Keonjhar mines as scanned by Google Earth satellite.
Posco has sought allocation of Thakurani mines.
As the iron ore mines(brick red areas) expand, the forest covers shrink.
Scarred by mines...
Orissa's environment is severely threatened by large-scale mining activities that are expected to intensify in coming years. Forty-three steel plants are poised to come up in Orissa, which will require over 2300 million tonnes of iron ore in the next 25 years. Stee and mines department officials say a few more steel MoUs are in the pipeline. Most of the iron ore mines are concentrated in Keonjhar and adjacent Sundargarh districts. Environmentalists are now up in arms against the large-scale mining of iron in Keonjhar district as it would pollute the Baitarani River, the lifeline of Keonjhar. EPGOrissa pinged me the following pictures of Keonjhar mines as scanned by Google Earth satellite.
Posco has sought allocation of Thakurani mines.
Posco has sought allocation of Thakurani mines.
As the iron ore mines(brick red areas) expand, the forest covers shrink.
Scarred by mines...
posted by Debabrata at 1:19 PM
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That black patch in the middle - is it a sponge iron plant?
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