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PRE-FEASIBILITY REPORT 1 Introduction Shri Abdul Rehman Ramzan Baluch is Stone Quarry at RF Survey No. 359 Village –

Chandansar, Taluka – Vasai, District Palghar, and State-Maharashtra, and State-Maharashtra over an area 0.800 ha. This minor mineral mining project requires environmental clearance from department of Environmental, Government of Maharashtra as per direction of Supreme Court of India. 1.1 Salient Features

Sr. No. Information

Details

1 Project Name

Abdul Rehman Ramzan Baluch

2 Name of Project Proponent

Abdul Rehman Ramzan Baluch

3 Location

RF Survey of 359 of Village – Chandansar, Taluka – Vasai, District Palghar, and State-Maharashtra

4 Area

0.800 ha

5 Geocodes

N 19°27'50.90" , E 72°51'07.00" N 19°27'48.10" , E 72°51'08.20"

6 AMSL

44/49 (Low/High)

7 Topography

Rectangular in Shape

8 Name of Mineral Mined

Basalt Stone

9 Production Capacity

2500 Brass per year

10 Drilling and blasting

At Very small scale and electrical control blasting for loosening rock will be done.

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11 Land use

It is Reserved forest land.

12 Water Requirement and Source

7.5 CMD

13 Solid Waste

No Solid Waste generation

14 Manpower

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15 Type of Land

Rocky, Barren & Non-agricultural

1. 2 About the Project

According to Indian Bureau of Mines (IBM), India is one of the top ten nations in reservation of mineral and resources. Its production more than 80 different mineral commodities and Its largely reserves of barite, bauxite, chromites, coal, iron ore and manganese ore. In 2007 mining contribute the 4.4% growth of India economic. In Maharashtra the stone quarry is an important mining business. The growing population and globalization are increasing the demand of constrictions. There are high demands of stone in bigger construction like building towers, roads and railways tracks. Under the policy of mining in India the “stone’ is categorized as “Minor Mineral.” The location of stone Quarrying and Crushing are permitted at far distance from the human habitation. But usually stone quarry activities are seen mushrooming around the Mega cities where in the Real Estate construction /developmental activities goes on at large scale. Stone Quarry A quarry is a type of opencast mine from which rock or mineral are extracted. Quarries are generally used for extracting building materials, such as dimension stone. Construction aggregate, riprap, sand, and gravel. Stone quarries come in different shapes and sizes. Some, like the gravel pits are relatively easy to reclaim. Many disused quarries, once they have been made safe, are used for leisure areas such as camp sites or motor vehicle racing tracks but the reclamation of others is more difficult. The project is to carry out stone mining from the forest

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land. The land is owned by Forest Dept. The land is not suitable for cultivation. Hence the owner decided to take out stone and generate income for livelihood. Location Village Chandansar, Taluka Vasai, District Palghar, Maharashtra Mining Lease area: 0.800 ha Capacity of production: 2500 Brass Per Year The present Area situated about 3.60 Km E of village East Virar. The land which is in Area is a reserved forest land. The nearest railway station from quarry is a Virar which is about 4.30 KM. c 2.0 Brief Description of the nature of project The project is for excavation of stone from reserved forest land. The project is now categorized as B2 category in EIA notification as per the MoEF guidelines. Therefore requires environmental clearance from the Maharashtra State. The project is proposed by Shri Abdul Rehman Ramzan Baluch project proponent has requested authorities to issue mining lease. 2.2 Need of the project Stone although minor mineral play important role in the development of infrastructure like Roads, Railway, Dams, Residential buildings, fly overs so on. All these infrastructure project play vital role in the development of economy of the region and subsequently nation. Presently Indian railway is expanding rail network at Palghar and nearest District. The stone is one of the main requirement for them. Therefore it is necessary to excavate stone from non-agriculture land. Besides there is continuous need for housing industry. 2.3 Demand Supply Gap For thousands of years man has used stone for building, whether it was for monuments, religious buildings or houses. Early on, when Britain was only sparsely populated, man’s use of stone and his primitive quarrying would have had little lasting impact on the environment.

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Gradually, as time went on, more stone was used in building. It was a good material with which to build castles, walls, churches and important buildings since it was strong and weather resistant. As the demand for stone grew, so did the demand for quarrying. There is now a great demand for stone. Creating one kilometre of road 0.8000 metres wide could use well over 500 lorry loads of crushed stone. Because the stone used for this sort of construction work does not have to be extracted in a high quality block form. 2.4 Domestic Market The regularly increasing construction work for highway, building, railway etc required the quarry and increasing demand day by day. Keeping this in view the Basalt mining is proposed at Virar 2.4 Employment Generation There is direct and indirect employment generation for locals only. Almost 12 people will be directly employed and four times to this will get indirect employment. 3.0 Geology Briefly describe the topography and general geology indicating rock types available, the chemical constituents of rock/ minerals including elements if any at the mine site. Topography The proposed area is sloppy and land is forest and is located about 3.60 Km W of Virar. General Geology The entire area of mining is covered with Deccan traps Basalts formation of upper Cretaceous to Lower Eocene age. The petro logical composition of the Deccan Basalt is singularly uniform. The most common rock is normal basalt with mean specific gravity of 2.9. The Geological Reserves The entire area of the lease is covered with Deccan Trap basalt. The rocks are exposed in the lease area and surrounding areas. The entire area is covered with basalt formation of upper Cretaceous to Lower age. The petro logical composition of the Deccan Basalts is singularly uniform. The most common rock is normal basalt, with mean specific gravity of 2.9. Basalt is

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exposed in the hill slopes. Surface plan and geology of the area is shown in plate No.3&4 respectively. Geological cross section of the area is given in. 4.0 Type of Stone to be Quarries and Processed Stone rock is quarried by open cast method. Then it is crushed sand screened to produce an aggregate. Usage of Quarried And Processed Material The sectors involved in usage of the quarried and processed basalt as construction material are

a) Housing b) Road c) Railway d) Seaports and Airports e) Industries f) Other Sectors

4.3 Mining method The stone is obtained from hilly area by a digging, blasting or cutting. This process is known as quarrying and the pit or open excavation from which the stone is obtained is called a quarry. Based on the excavation method, quarries can be divided into two broad categories: vertical Quarries and horizontal Quarries. In the digging, when the stone in the form of raw material is obtained, the walls of the quarry are known as a vertical Quarry whilst stone gathered from the bed or floor is known as a Horizontal Quarry. Mining of stone involved both machines and manual work. The drilling and channelling is done using hand chisels and hammers. Many quarries now have mining machinery, such as dampers and trucks for transport. Once the stone is obtained it is further processed for the next stage of production. The typical processes after quarrying involve following four steps: Dressing Cutting/Sawing Surface grinding and polishing and Edge-cutting-trimming

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Once the all processes are complete, the ready for dispatching to the end user in the form of slabs, tiles, blocks, cobbles, bricks etc. Mining is carried by using drilling, Blasting, Transportation and sorting activity. Mining machinery used for activity are Heavy mine machinery used for transportation and loading and Unloading of mineral. The following are the important Mechanical/Manual processes employed at the quarry to obtain the stone: Opening Cleaning of the upper morrum soil Explosion /Blasting This is normally done by licensed contractors to clean the quarry Slicing of blocks/Slabs/Random/Slabs/Random These are thicker plates extracted mechanically with machines and/ or hand tools such as chisels machines hammers etc Hand or Machine Process Depending upon the requirement Lifting Normally by mechanical crane Splitting The Following mining parameters are proposed for mining Type of working – Opencast Bench height-6m Bench width-6m Overall Slope -45 0max.

In the operation phase stone will be excavated by semi mechanized method and located directly into trucks/trolleys to stone crusher from the mine site and send to market.

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4.4 Plant and machinery Poclain Dumper Tractor Drilling Machine Trucks Bore for Blasting 4.5 Availability of Water No permanent water course is passing through lease area. No water body is found nearby the site. 4.6 Blasting 1. Proper blasting whole geometry shall be designed. 2. Blast site shall be wetted before and after blasting operations are completed. 3. Only optimum quantity of permissible explosives shall be used so that the vibrations do not damage the structures/houses if the quarrying operations are close to human habitation. 4. Blasting shall be Conducted only during favourable weather conditions and only during the day time and permissible hours. 5. The blasting operations shall be given publicity in the local area through Davandi and other available media so that local people become aware of the blasting activities being undertaken in the area. 6. The vibrations should be monitored periodically in consultation with the local Mining authorities. 7. The storage of the explosives and its transfer to and the quarry area shall be strictly in accordance with the conditions listed in the permission granted by Explosives Department.

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As the mining operations are aimed to produce crushed it is necessary to adopt blasting. To carry out these blasting operations in a scientific manner company will implement advanced blasting procedures with skilled personnel with the use of ANFO and emulsion as explosive or slurry explosives, conventional blasting methods along with delay detonator will be used. 4.7 Safety The following instructions will be following while blasting is carried out

1. From blasting site area of 500 M will be marked as unsafe 2. Workers will be deployed with flags and whistle at 500M for giving warning 3. Workers will be wearing helmets 4. Sufficient delay will be kept during two blasts. 4.8 Ground Water There are bore wells found in village like Virar Quality of Water There will not be any impact on quality of water due to mining activity. There is no discharge of water or any other effluent from this mine and also no generation of any toxic or hazardous substance which may affect the quality of water in buffer zone of lease area. There will be no impact of mining on quality of water by the mining operation as no water from other source is getting mixed with rainwater. 4.9 Water Demand Sr.No. Use Quantity CuM 1 Water Sprinkler 1 2 Plantation 5.5 3 Domestic 1 Total 7.5

Energy /power requirement and source Electric supply is not available at the site and continuous supply of power is meet with own DG Sets. Quantity of wastes to be generated As there is no top soil solid waste generated.

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4.9.1 Land Use Pattern Sr.No Area to be used for Area in Ha 1 Area Excavated 0.6687 2 Dumping of waste - 3 Green Belt 0.1273 4 Mineral separation Plant 5 Unutilized & Other Area 6 Road 0.0040 7 Crushing Unit Total 0.8000

4.9.2Physical infrastructure The road facility is already available which shall be used. The power requirement is drawn from the nearest power station. The labour requirement is drawn from the nearby villages, which shall also be trained for the requirement in mines. Other requisite infrastructure as transport of mine labours is available by way of jeep, matadors. Medical facility will be made available for first aid at mine site. Other facilities like rest shelter, canteen communication facility with mobile telephone service and land line is also available at the lease area. 4.9.3 Rehabilitation and Resettlement Plan It is not applicable as project proponent got land from Forest Land. 5.0 Environment Management Plan 5.1Air Pollution Control

DRILLING 1) Drilling machine shall be fitted with dust suppression, collection and disposal

arrangement. 2) Deep wetting of drilling zones shall be done by water sprinkling before starting drilling. 3) During the drilling operations the efforts shall be made to reduce dust generation by

taking appropriate measures.

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Blasting 1) Proper blasting whole geometry shall be designed. 2) Blast site shall be wetted before and after blasting operations are completed. 3) Only optimum quantity of permissible explosives shall be used so that the vibrations

do not damage the structures/houses if the quarrying operations are close to human habitation.

4) Blasting shall be conducted only during favourable weather conditions and only during the day time and permissible hours.

5) The blasting operations shall be given publicity in the local area through Davandi and other available media so that local people become aware of the blasting activities being undertaken in the area.

6) The vibrations should be monitored periodically in consultation with the local Mining authorities.

7) The storage of the explosives and its transfer to and from the quarry area shall be strictly in accordance with the conditions listed in the permission granted by Explosives Department.

5.2 WATER POLLUTION CONTROL Garland drains will be provided around the working pits to prevent entry of rain water inside pit. Selection of waste dumps site will be in non-mineralized zone of mining lease area. Water will be collected in the mines sump after deposition of silts in the catch drain. The drain will be de-silted regularly and maintained properly. 5.3 NOISE POLLUTION CONTROL The latest machinery will be used in mining and due care will be taken to minimize Generation of noise. Scheduled and preventive maintenance of all machines will be carried out periodically to keep the original condition of the equipment so that noise generation from them can be reduced and controlled. This will help in reducing generation of noise during working of machines. Drilling will be carried out with sharp drill bits to reduce generation of noise during drilling. Controlled blasting with adequate charge per hole will be practiced to reduce generation of noise. Plantation will be done on the sides of approach roads, around rest shelter and workshop area. The plantation work minimizes propagation of noise. Earmuffs will be

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provided to all operators and employees working at higher noise zones. Periodical monitoring of noise level of mining machines in the mining area will be done with the help of noise level meter. Training at regular intervals for use of personal protective equipment like earplugs & earmuffs will be imparted to all employees. All the operators will be provided with earplugs & earmuffs. 5.4 GREEN BELT 33% Green belts surrounding the ML area and along the permanent roads shall be developed with tree species having broad leaves, with minimum of three rows, keeping 5×5m interval. Spacing in between the tree saplings shall be used for development of under growth. Mostly local varieties of plants are proposed to be planted to improve the soil quality with humus and carbon. Plantation program on the periphery of Mine lease Name of the Tree Number Embelica officinalis 40 Azadicrta Indica 40 Subabhul 30 Ficus religosa 40 Pongamia pinnata 35 Total 185

5.5 Land Reclamation The total mining lease area is 0.800 ha. Of this only 0.6687 Ha will used for excavation. This excavated area will be used as water reservoir. The rest of the area will be converted to green belt with two row plantation. The post mining land use of the area will improve the overall ground water regime and green cover in the area which create the positive impact on environment and enhance the aesthetic beauty.

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6.0 Project Cost Plant and Machinery 15 lakhs Manpower 5 lakh Environmental Management Cost 3 lakhs Total 18 lakhs

6.0. Production Cost This cost include cost of Boring, Machine and Manpower which is Rs.400 / ton +Rs.75/ton royalty= Total-Rs.475 per ton 7.0 Conclusion The surrounding inhabitants are mainly forest. The frequent drought prone condition leads to migration of the people to other areas. Unemployment and underemployment are the main problems of the inhabitants. Opportunities for jobs in activities such as mining serve as a source of permanent livelihood. In order to access the mine approach roads are/or maintained by the operating company, which is also beneficial to the surrounding population. The village roads are usually strengthened for transportation of minerals. The mined out area is also becoming source of water for villagers as good quantity of water is stored. Thus in the interest of mineral development and to improve the social condition of the local habitants this project should be allowed considering all the environmental aspects.