The slide is on regarding the recent mining activities of Bangladesh.

1. Mining Industry in Bangladesh
Group Name : LAUGFS gas (Bangladesh Limited)
Prepared by :
 S.M. Samiur Sany (140802)
 Debashish Das (130833)

2. Outline:
 Introduction to LAUGFS Gas (Bangladesh) Ltd.
 Historical approach of mining in Bangladesh
 Present activities of mining industry
 Total coal reserve
 Barapukuria coal mine
 Maddhapara hard rock mine
 Quarry mining(limestone)
 Sand mining as well as Salt mining
 prospect of ocean mining in Bangladesh
 Energy scenario of Bangladesh
 Refferences

3. LAUGFS Gas (Bangladesh) Ltd. :
•LAUGFS Gas (Bangladesh) Ltd. Is
one of the biggest LPG distributor in
Bangladesh.
•It’s a giant energy hub from Sri
Lanka.
•In 2001, it has entered Bangladeshi
downstream industry
•Their brand name is Kleen heat Gas.
•It generally imports, stores, bottles
and distributes over 5000 MT of LPG
every year.
•Their annual income is USD 38
million. Fig: LAUGFS LPG PLANT

4. Historical approach of mining in
Bangladesh:
 Bangladesh is developing country located in southeastern
Asia.
 According to US geological survey, the country belongs to
small reserve of natural resource i.e. coal, natural gas and
petroleum.
 Coal field was first discovered in 1962 by geological survey of
Pakistan in Jamalganj.
 Later in 1985, geological survey of Bangladesh discovered
another coal field in Barapukuria, Dinajpur.
 In 1989, a coal field discovered in khalaspir, Rongpur and
another coal field discovered in 1995.
 Afterward, BHP Billiton, a multinational company discovered
country’s last coal field in 1997 in phulbari.

5. Present activities of the mining industry:
 As of late, coal of Gondwana age is mined from
Barapukuria coal field in Dinajpur having an annual
production of 3650906 metric ton.
 Hardrocks of precambrian age are extracted from
Maddhapara Granite mine whose annual production is
about 1.65 million ton.
 Significant amount of sand is also mined from sea
beach and river by dredging.
 Marine salt is extracted from coastal area,approximately
350,000 tons per year.
 Limestone of Eocene age(Quarrying) having a small
reserve also mined almost 28,ooo tons from Sylhet and
Chittagong regions.

6. Map of Bangladesh showing recent
mining activities:

7. Total coal reserve:
 Total coal reserve of our country is 3.3 billion tons yet which is
equivalent to 75 TCF of gas derived from 5 coal field.
 We have a good quality bituminous coal whereas sulfur is very
small in proportion.
 The calorific value of this coal is ranging about 5,500-15,000
Btulb
 Now I am delineating those coal field with their location,
individual reserve, there year of discovery, production rate and
status in tabular form.

8. Everything regarding coal field:
Coal field
( District)
Year of
discovery
Discovered
by
Reserve
(million
ton)
Pro. rate
per year
(ton)
Remaerks
Jamalganj
(Jaipurhat)
1962 SVOC 1053 Mining not
viable
Barapukuria
(dinajpur)
1985 GSB 303 1 million
ton
Production
going on
Khalashpir
(Rangpur)
1989 GSB 147 Undevelope
d
Dighipara
(Dinajpur)
1995 GSB 200 Undevelope
d
Phulbari
(Dinajpur)
1997 BHP 380 Not in
operation

9. Barapukuria Coal Mine:
 Barapukuria coal mine is only
active coal mine in Bangladesh.
 A subsidiary of Petrobangla.
 It is discover by GSB in 1985.
 The mine is located in the
Parbatipur thana of Dinajpur.
 Reserve of coal: 330 million
tons
 Daily production : 4500 Tons
 Annual production : almost 1
million tons
Fig: Satellite view of
Barapukuria coal mine

10. Barapukuria coal mine:
 Depth of coal: 118-509 meter.
 Nos. of coal layer : 6
 Rank of coal: Bituminous (high
volatile).
 Thickness of coal seam: 36 m
(6th seam).
 Mining method: long wall
mining method & long wall top
caving.
 Mine life: 36 years
Fig: Piled up coal of Barapukuria
coal mine

11. Barapukuria coal mine:
Uses:
 Coal of Barapukuria is mainly used for electricity
production.
 A 250 MW electricity plant has been built
adjacent to the mine area.
 65% of the production is used in this plant.
 Remaining 35% is used in brick fields and other
domestic purpose.
 In future, the capacity of the power plant will be
increased to 375 MW to ensure 100% utilization

12. Barapukuria coal mine:
 A short documentary regarding Barapukuria coal mine included:

13. Maddhapara hard rock mine:
 Maddhapara granite
mine is located at
Parbatipur, Dinajpur.
 It was discovered by
1975.
 A subsidiary company of
Petrobangla.
 Depth of rock :124 m
 Reserve: 174 million
tons
Fig: Satellite view of
Maddhapara mine

14. Maddhapara hard rock mine:
 Extent of deposit : 1.2 sq. km
 Point load strength : 24,000 PSI
 Daily production : 5550 metric
tons.
 Annual production :1.65 million
tons.
 Life of the mine Project analysis
based on 41 years (including
development period) but mine
operation life may be extended
for more than 70 years
Fig: Production going on in
Maddhapara hardrock mine

15. Maddhapara hard rock mine:
 Using method: Room and
pillar mining
Uses:
 As a construction material for
housing apartment,
commercial building, road and
highways, bridges and dames,
railway ballast and sleepers,
tiles etc.
Fig: Room and pillar mining

16. Quarry mining:
 Limestone mainly is mined
by quarry mining.
 Quarrying is extracted
commercially in Sylhet and
Chittagong regions.
 Annual production: 28000
tons per year.
 Used as construction metarial
 Also found in Takerghat
and Joypurhat with a total
reserve of 100 million ton.
Fig: Quarrying in Sylhet

17. Quarry mining:
Uses
 Limestone mainly used
in cement industry and
construction industry.
Fig: Fossiliferous limestone, Sylhet

18. Sand mining:
 Sand mining is a
traditional surface
mining.
 Generally sand is mined
from Shoreline, beach
and river through
dredging.
 Sand is utilized in glass,
ceramic and construction
industry.
Fig : Traditional sand mining

19. Sand mining:
Disadvantage of sand
mining:
 Impacts the local wildlife
 It also destroys fisheries
 Causes river bank erosion
Fig: Typical sand mining
Sand mining is strictly prohibited by law in many places, but is still
often done illegally.

20. Salt mining:
 A salt mine is a mine from
which halite, commonly
known as rock salt, is
extracted from evaporite
formations.
 Mainly found in the coastal
areas of Bangladesh specially
in Chittagong and Cox's bazar
 Recently salt cultivation has
also begun in the coastal belts
of Khulna and Satkhira.
 21 m tons can mined from per
acre
Fig: traditional salt mining

21. Prospect of ocean mining in
Bangladesh:
 Ocean mining refers to the mining that carried out under
the ocean beneath the sea floor.
 Basically ocean floor is full of various metal i.e. zinc, silver,
gold, lead and copper as well as numerous mineral i.e.
Zircon, Rutile, Garnet, Magnetite, Kyanite , Monazite etc.
 It is anticipated that the whole region of the Bay of Bengal
is floating on petroleum.
 These are economically very viable.
 As Bangladesh has the longest coastal area and biggest
part of ocean, so government should take proper steps to
extract them to mitigate country’s growing energy demand.

22. Energy scenario of Bangladesh:
 Coal only supplies 2%
electricity generation
whereas gas accounting for
80% here in our country.
 Everyday about 70% coal
produced worldwide that is
used for electrcity
generation.
 In China, 80% electricity
generation comes from coal,
76% for Australia, 36% for US
and only 2% for Bangladesh.

23. Energy scenario of Bangladesh:
 In order to cope with country’s increasing energy
demand, government has taken some initiatives to
increase power generation from coal to 50 percent from
the present 2 percent by 2021.
 Import coal from China, India and Indonesia that
consumed in public and private sector.
 The government wants to install an additional 12,000
MW in capacity power plant by the end of 2016, 24,000
MW by 2021 and 39,000 MW by 2030 according to the
annual report of Bangladesh power development board
in 2011-12.

24. Energy scenario of Bangladesh:

25. Referrences:
 https://www.petrobangla.org.bd/
 https://www.mpemr.gov.bd/
 http://www.bcmcl.org.bd/
 http://www.mgmcl.org.bd/
 http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Mineral_Resour
ces
 http://www.gsb.gov.bd/rvedr$/index.php?option=com_con
tent&view=article&id=9&Itemid=10
 https://www.azomining.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=217
 https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bangladesh_and_
coal
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mining_in_Banglad
esh