Sustainable utilisation and transformation of the thermal energy from coalfield fires: A comprehensive review

Y Xiao, L Yin, Y Tian, SG Li, XW Zhai, CM Shu… - Applied Thermal …, 2023 - Elsevier
Coalfield fires provide high-temperature heat storage at relatively shallow depths, their
overburden and upper strata contain immense amounts of thermal energy, which is identical …

Remote sensing of coal fires in India: A review

TH Syed, MJ Riyas, C Kuenzer - Earth-Science Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Coal fires are a persistent threat to major coal producing countries in the world. Alongside
massive wastage of coal resources, coal fires pose enormous constraints to mining …

Identification of coal and gas outburst-hazardous zones by electric potential inversion during mining process in deep coal seam

Y Niu, E Wang, Z Li, F Gao, Z Zhang, B Li… - Rock Mechanics and …, 2022 - Springer
Coal remains an important fuel and energy, especially in China. For coal mining in deep
mines, the threat of coal and rock dynamic disasters (such as coal and gas outburst) to safe …

A time-lapse study using self-potential and electrical resistivity tomography methods for mapping of old mine working across railway-tracks in a part of Raniganj …

S Srivastava, SK Pal, R Kumar - Environmental Earth Sciences, 2020 - Springer
The first coal mining in India was started in the seventeenth century with an unplanned way
in Raniganj coalfield, the coal capital of India. The coalfield was possessed by several small …

Detection of illegal mine voids using electrical resistivity tomography: the case-study of Raniganj coalfield (India)

AK Bharti, SK Pal, P Priyam, VK Pathak, R Kumar… - Engineering …, 2016 - Elsevier
Unauthorised coal mining activities may result in development of hidden hollows, rat holes,
galleries, goafs, shafts etc., which pose great threats of land subsidence, fire, water flooding …

Abandoned mine galleries detection using electrical resistivity tomography method over Jharia coal field, India

P Das, SK Pal, PR Mohanty, P Priyam, AK Bharti… - Journal of the …, 2017 - Springer
Land subsidence is a serious problem in Indian coalfields due to old underground mine
workings. Unfortunately, most of these are uncharted as no mine plans are available. The …

Combined self-potential, electrical resistivity tomography and induced polarisation for mapping of gold prospective zones over a part of Babaikundi-Birgaon Axis …

D Horo, SK Pal, S Singh, S Srivastava - Exploration Geophysics, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The Palaeo-to Meso-Proterozoic (1.0–2.4 Ga) North Singhbhum Mobile Belt (NSMB) is an
assembly of multiphase folded, low-to medium-grade meta-sedimentary and meta-igneous …

New insights into the gold mineralization in the Babaikundi–Birgaon Axis, North Singhbhum Mobile Belt, Eastern Indian Shield using magnetic, very low-frequency …

D Horo, SK Pal, S Singh, A Biswas - Minerals, 2023 - mdpi.com
The North Singhbhum Mobile Belt (NSMB) in the eastern Indian shield is an excellent
example of a diverse lithological domain with multiphase shear/fracture zones. It is a well …

Subsurface cavity detection over Patherdih colliery, Jharia Coalfield, India using electrical resistivity tomography

AK Bharti, SK Pal, P Priyam, S Kumar… - Environmental Earth …, 2016 - Springer
The present study deals with delineation and mapping of subsurface voids which are very
common around the Patherdih colliery of Jharia coal field, India. These are caused by coal …

Water seepage mapping in an underground coal-mine barrier using self-potential and electrical resistivity tomography

R Kumar, SK Pal, PK Gupta - Mine Water and the Environment, 2021 - Springer
Seepage of water through an underground coal-mine barrier is a common indicator of a
potential hydrogeological hazard. The Jharia coalfield has witnessed several deadly …