Environmental Impact Assessment of Mining at Khursipar Iron Ore Mine (MH)

Maharashtra is one of the largest producer of IRON And STEEL materials in the country. MSMC’s Khursipar Iron Ore Mine producing mainly Titano-Magnetite ore. The iron ore deposit of Khursipar is very important since it contains valuable mineral, vanadium which can be economically extracted. This deposit can be exploited for production of vanadium metal. This paper reports the find out the socio-economic and environmental impacts of mining in Amgaon tehsil, Gondia, Maharashtra. The current production capacity of iron ore in Khursipar (Ambetalav) is around 180 Mt. Opencast Mining, Height of the Bench is 3.0 M. Width of the bench is15 to 20 M and Angle of Slope is not exceeding 600. Mining is widely regarded as having adverse effects on environment. Some of these effects include impact on wildlife, socio-economic impact and contamination of groundwater by chemical from the mining process in open-pit mining. . As such, a repeatable process effects primarily tends to destroys them early. It is very necessary to study of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) of the iron ore mining activity on the future development and management of the natural environment and resources of gondia district. Normally, iron ore mining in India is done by opencast mining method and on this basis of mining methods, the mining can be broadly classified into two categories, i.e., manually and machinery.