Orissa Minerals Development Company (OMDC) on Friday said that it has
suspended operations at its Kolha Roida and Dalki mines after not
getting permission to lift ore from the mines.
“Development and mining work in Kolha Roida Iron & Manganese Mines and
Dalki Manganese Mines has been stopped as permission for lifting of iron and
manganese ore has not been issued by DDM, Joda,” OMDC, a PSU under the
administrative control of the Steel Ministry, said today.
The company had resumed development and
mining operations in both the mines in Keonjhar district of Odisha on December
29 last year.
OMDC, which had closed the mines about three years back after its mining leases
in Odisha expired and approvals lapsed, had sought an expression of interest
(EoI) from players looking to purchase iron ore from the company shortly after
reopening the same.
The reopening was designed to help the firm start operations once again as all six
of its iron and manganese ores located at Keonjhar in Orissa are inoperative
due to their closure on account of non-availability of environment and forest
clearances.
As per estimates, the Kolha Roida mine has an annual production capacity of 30
lakh tonnes of iron ore and 2.4 lakh tonnes of manganese ore.
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