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PRE-FEASIBILITY REPORT

Name of the project: Road Metal& Building stone quarry of Sri.M/S Lakshmi Venkateswara Stone Crushers, M.G.Partnor: Sri B.S.Narayanareddy

1 Name and address of the proponent:

Sri.M/S Lakshmi Venkateswara Stone Crushers M.G.Partnor: Sri B.S.Narayanareddy, Lakshmipuram (V), Yellampalli (Po), Bagepalli Taluk, Chikkaballapura District, Karnataka State

2 Location of the project(Coordinates of the area and Topo sheet No)

A.13°55’27.6”N 77° 37’01.0”E B.13°55’27.2”N, 77°37’02.6”E C.13°55’25.5”N, 77°37’02.9”E D.13°55’25.2”N, 77°37’01.2”E 57 G/9Velidadakala (V),

3 Category of the project as per the Schedule under EIA notification

1(a)of the Schedule, Category B2

4A Details of application filed before the concerned granting authority

Existing project hence Not Applicable

Survey No: 318/P,350/7 &11

Extent: 1.000 Ha.,

Village: Velidadakala

Mandal: Somandepalli

District: Anantapur

State: Andhra Pradesh

4B Details of grant made in case of existing project

Grant order details Granted vide proceedings no.852/Q1/2017, dated.11.09.2007 of Director / Deputy Director of Mines & Geology, Kurnool. Proceedings No. 852/Q3/RM/2007 dt:28.07.2016 of Assistant Director Mines & Geology, Ananthapuramu

Period of Lease 10 years

w.e.f. 28.07.2016

Survey No: 318/P,350/7 &11

Extent: 1.000Hects.,

Village: Velidedakala

Mandal: Somandepalli

District: Anantapur

State: Andhra Pradesh

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1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: This relates to a quarry project to produce road metal, rough

stone/boulders for the use in construction activity.Due to recent

introduction of stone crushing units, the major activity of production of

stone aggregate shifted to Industry from the place of quarry

site.Presently boulders of about150mm size are produced in the quarry

and are transported to crushing Industry where the boulders are reduced

torequired sizes.Presently 40mm size is used for metal soling in road

works and alsoin flooring foundations.The next sizeshaving in demand in

the market are 20mm, 12mm, 6mm and stone dust.A mix of 20mm and

12mm is normally used in concrete making in building structures and

also making cement roads. The 6mm and stone dust are used for upper

layers of blacktop roads.Thus entire produce is put to use in building

construction and road laying activity.For development of any area, Stone

metal is pre-requisite.Andhra Pradesh is endowed with huge reserves of

granite throughout the state. Though geologically there are different rock

types likegranite, charnockite, dolerite, gabbro, syeniteetc.for all these

the general terminology under usage is granite, which is hard rockwith

hardness of 5.5 to 7 in Moh’s scale of hardness.The other rock types like

limestone,dolomite arealso predominant in the state. Due to their

chemical weatheringcharacter and low hardness they are normally not

preferred in concrete mixing.Besides, the other widely occurringrock type

in A.P. is quartzite. Although it is also useful in concrete mix, due to its

high hardness (7 Moh’s scale) its crushing cost is relatively high.Hence it

is not preferred unless local availability compels to use it.

The present project is a Stone metal quarry in operation at least for the

last one decade. As per the recent amendments brought to the EIA

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notification of 2006 vide amendment, dated 07.10.2014for mining of in

less than 5 ha area also under the net of obtaining E.C. especially due

to the observation of the National Green Tribunal, the present proposal

is made for seeking Environmental Clearance (EC).

The area under operation covers by a quarry lease granted by the

Dy.Director of Mines and Geology, under the provisions of A.P.Minor

Mineral Concession Rules 1966.The said grant gives right of quarrying

to the proponent subject to the terms and conditions of the lease

agreement entered with the Government. The required seigniorage fee

is paid to the department for the material dispatched from the quarry site.

The quarrying activity is manual using mild explosives with controlled

blasting, without affecting the surrounding environment. In fact the

activity is far away from the habitations. The material so quarried is

dispatched to the stone crushing units, which have already got E.C.

Broadly speaking,in the metal quarrying activity there is very little scope

for Environmental Pollution and waste generation. The small amount of

dust generated is suppressed by way of using water sprinklers. The

workers employed in the activity are supplied with nose and ear masks

to protect them from possible airand noise pollution. Since the

operations are mostly confined to rocky areas of the hill slopes, there is

no possibility of land degradation due to this activity. Wherever possible

by way of plantations, greenery is maintained. Above all as this material

is essential for the developmental activity, mining is inevitable. By way of

taking appropriate measures, it is possible to control dust emissions in

the mine.

2. INTRODUCTION OF THE PROJECT/ BACKGROUND

INFORMATION:

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The project under operation is called mining project which falls under

category B2 under schedule specified under notification issued vide S.O.

1533 MOEF dated 14-9-2006 read with amendments issued under S.O

2601 dated 7-10-2014 of MOEF&Climate change. Even though the said

notification envisages necessity of obtaining E.C. only for new projects,

keeping in view of the notices issued by the department of Mines and

Geology, present application is filed for seeking E.C.

The project is to produce building stone/road metal stone from the

quarry lease granted areas. The material obtained by way of using small

quantities of mild explosives under controlled blasting.

i) Brief note on use of explosives:

The quarrying activity requires dislodging of rock mass from the parental

rock which is quite hard. In order to mine this rock material, usage of

explosives and blasting is inevitable. .Forthis purpose to operate by

himself, the proponent requires explosive license under the Indian

Explosives Act 1884. Since the small quarry operators cannot afford to

establish individual explosive Magazines, they are resorting to outsource

the blasting operation to an agency which holds the license to use

explosives and undertakes the blasting operations in the quarry by

appointing qualified blasters.

The quarry operator gets blast holes drilledin the spacing and burden

suggested by the out sourced agency. The drill holes of 32 mm dia. are

drilled to an average depth of 2.0m with a spacing of 1.5 m and burden

of 1.0 m. The maximum numbers of holes at one go of blasting will be

20-25. Once the drill holes are kept ready, the licensed blaster of the

outsourcing agency takes over for further operations. The holes are

charged with 25mm. dia. A based slurry explosives. Stemming is done

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with locally available clay. The holes are connected with millisecond

delay detonators for ensuring maximum fragmentation and fired by using

a dynamo type exploder. Before firing the shots, the entire area of a

minimum 500 meters radius is cleared of men and machinery and all

possible entry points for men or animals are posted with well-informed

guards and the final firing with a dynamo exploder is done after

clearance is obtained from all the points. After a lapse of sufficient time,

the blasted face is inspected and all clear signals is given to the guards.

Whistles and Red flags are used for the operations.

Extra precautions are taken when a certain quarry is closer to a highway,

habitations etc. The explosive charge is reduced and thick mattings are

laid over the surface concerned.

On blasting, it is natural that large boulders are occasionally produced.

These cannot be handled easily for loading and also the crushers cannot

crush them. Therefore the secondary blasting is resorted to by drilling

Jack hammer holes and using small diameter explosives like kelvex,

superdyne etc. by taking the same precautions as per primary blasting

ii)Brief description of nature of the project:

The product produced from this project is stone of about 150 mm

size, a feed to the stone crusher, to produce stone aggregate of

40mm, 20mm,12mm, 6mm sizes for the use in concrete and other

road works. The final product in the process is stone dust which can

also be used as filling material, in place of ordinary sand in cement

mix and also as top fine layer in block top roads.

iii) Need for the project and its importance to the country and

or region:

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As civilization grows, there is need for the improvement of

infrastructural facilities. For the development of infrastructure

facilities, huge consumption of stone aggregate and road metal is

imminent. For every tone of cement consumed, the stone aggregate

required would be 3tones. Government is committed to housing to

poor people in the present welfare state. In this context requirement

fof huge quantities of stone aggregates and cement are imminent.

The requirement of stone aggregate in A.P. is 90 million tones basing

on cement consumption figures,apart from this the stone aggregate

is also used in road making where cement is not used. Besides,

dueto shortage of river sand, presently, rock sand is contemplated to

be its substitute. Hence, the requirement of stone for making rock

sand increases exponentially and there is need to go for further

production of the rock boulders. Hence, there is every need to

encourage the mining projects of this type. Moreover, the quarrying

activity of the area over considerable time make the area fit for tree

growth after exhaustion of the deposit. If the activity takes place

below ground level the mine pit helps to act as water reservoirs and

thereby improves ground water level in the surrounding areas. Hence

the activity can be considered to be environmental friendly. More so

in the nearby vicinity a new A.P. capital with huge out lay of about

more than INR 100000crores is contemplated. At least 20% of this

component goes for raw material such as stone aggregate, sand and

cement. Therefore, there is every need to encourage this type of

project

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iv) Demand, Supplyand Gap:

As explained supra there is increasing demand for this stone

especially due to the new capital under way for A.P and the present

area is located in very close proximity. Therefore there is going to be

more demand than present supply of the material, since present

supply is only catering the needs of existing construction activity.

v) Imports vs. Indigenous production:

There is no scope of import of this type ofconstruction material as

there is enough scope to exploit the vast reserves of hard rock. In

fact, some of the small islands surrounding our country are importing

such construction material as they cannot indulge any more in

excavation of the exposed hard rock there.

vi)Export Possibility:

There is good possibility to export this material,provided the port

network facilitates.

vii) Domestic / export Markets:

This material, as explained earlier, so as to cater to the

developmental needs of Vijayawada which is one of the fast

developing cities in India and more so to the new State Capital which

is coming up in nearby area with huge investments. Hence there is

very bright future for the domestic consumption.

viii)Employment Generation (Direct and Indirect) due to

the project:

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This project provides employment to about 15persons per day

directly and about equal number indirectly.

3. PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

i) Type of project including interlinked and interdependent

projects, if any:

This is interlinked project with stone crushing projects. The activity is

by way of manual mining using small quantities of explosives under

controlled blasting to split/ loosen the rock mass from the parent

rock. The rock boulders so produced will be of size range between

0.2cum to 0.75 cum and same will be reduced in size to small

boulders about 150mm bymanualbreaking and would be used as

stone crusher feed.

Ii) Location (map showing general location, specific

location, and project boundary & project site layout) with

coordinates:

The lease area is located along the southwestern slopes of the

hills(Δ731) and is 2.0 km SW of Velidadakala (v) Somandepalli (M)

Anantapur (Dist.). The location map of the area demarcated on

revenue sketch is annexed to the lease grant order apart from

locating the area on Survey of India Toposheet No. 57G/9

iii) Detailsof alternate sites considered and the basis

ofselecting the proposed site, particularly the environmental

considerations gone into should be highlighted:

Minerals are site specific unlike other products. There is no

alternative than mining of the mineral where ever they occur by way

of shifting the other projects toelsewhere, even if they are located on

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the top of mineral bed.We can re-locate any project to anywhere, but

not the mineral deposits, which are god given gifts to the humankind.

iv) Size or magnitude of operation:

This is a very small project spread over anextent of 1.ha. The

probable annual production is about 17911m cubetons which can

give employment opportunities to about 15persons directly and

another10 persons indirectly. This project is alabour

intensiveindustry though the capital out lay of the project is very

low, when compared to projects of high investments.

v) Project description with process details (a schematic

diagram/ flow chart showing the project layout, components of

the project etc. should be given):

Schematic Diagram/Flow Chart:

Parent rock

↓

Producing of rock aggregates with sizes of0.25 to 0.75m by line

drilling and controlled blasting.

↓

Breaking up of the bigger size blocks to ≈150mm size rock

aggregates by manual hammering

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The ≈150mm size rock material shall be sent as crusher feed

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From crusher the resulting end products arewith 40mm, 20mm,

12mm size road metal and rock dust.

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vi)Raw material required along with estimated quantity, likely

source, marketing area of final product/s, and mode of transport

of raw material and finished Product:

The estimated resource of rock material in the lease area, as crusher

feed, is of the order of about.3 million tons.The transportation of the

raw material is by way of tippers from the quarry to the stone

crushing units and loading is by using raw material loader

(Poclain).The marketing area is-nearby Towns like Hindupur,

Penukonda, Dharmavaram, Gorantla, Palasamudram, Somandepalli,

and neighboring villages. The final finished product from the crusher

will be transported to the consumer points by tippers.

vii) Resource optimization/ recycling and reuse envisaged inthe

project, if any, should be briefly outlined:

The estimated resource of the raw material in the lease hold area of

extent 1hais of the order of about0.3million tons.Because it is a basic

construction material for roads and buildings, it cannot be retrieved

and recycled.

In fact, the stone dust generated wasconsidered to bea waste in the

past. But of late, due to the shortage of filling material the stone dust

is being used as alternative filling material for leveling thelow lying

areas. Further, recently due to the shortage of soil in brick making,

concrete bricks aremade by using baby chips and stone dust as an

alternative. Hence the dust generated is also has good market along

with other produce in the stone crushing unit.

vii i ) Availability of water, its source, Energy/ power requirement

and source should be given:

At mine site, water is used for:

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Wet drilling

Water sprinkling on quarry roads and approach roads for dust

suppression.

The metal quarry requires about 10KLD of water.This includes water

for drilling(about 1-1.5 KLD), dust suppression(6.0-7 KLD) and

domestic purposes (1.0- 1.5 KLD).

For drinking purpose of the persons working in the quarry potable

water supply is out sourced. Whereas for sprinkling purposes water

will be tapped from the nearby boreholes on contract basis by tankers.

There is no need for power supply since the operations are conducted

only duringday times.

The requirement of fuel for running the vehicles and machinery will be

procured from the nearby petrol bunks.

ix) Quantity of wastes to be generated (liquid and solid)and

scheme for their Management/disposal:

The stone metal quarrying is on the hill slopes occupied by sheet

rocks and boulderswhich do not have soil cover,hencethere will not

be any scope waste generation.

x) Schematic representations of the feasibility drawingwhich

give information of EIA purpose:

This is a very small mining project with an extent of 1.0 ha and does

not have any major Environmental Impact. However, the minor

environmental impacts such as air pollution by dust emissions and

noise pollution by mining activity are contained by water sprinkling on

the quarry roads and by provided ear & nose masks to the persons

working in the mine respectively.

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Topo map of the mining project with 5 Km radius from the project with

site location showing and its adjoining areas isenclosed. As such there

is no impact on the human habitation, water bodies and nearby forest

due to this mining activity. The dust emissions due to blasting are

minimal and settle in a short time.The dust in the muck pile will be

suppressed by sprinkling water. No solid waste and liquid effluents will

be generated during mining activity. The river Chitravathi is at a

distance of 14 Km east of the site.As there are no waste materials

generated, there is no possibility of dumping the pollutants in

neighboring rivers, nalas and tanks.

4. SITE ANALYSIS:

i) Connectivity:

The site has good connectivity as National Highway (NH 44)

connecting Hyderabad with Bangaloreis at about 2.0kmsin East..The

nearest rail headHindupuram of South Central Railway is at22 Km

distances. A black topped road connects the quarry site with the

National Highway.

ii) Land Form, Land Use and Land Ownership:

The lease area is located along the southern slopes of the

hills(Δ731)Southern Eastoccurring 2.0 kmSWfromVedidakala The

land forms observed on the hill are domal,elephant back, sheetrock,

pediment slope, split boulder, strewn boulder and stray boulder. All

around the hill the country is with adulatory topography covered with

black and deep back soils of high fertility nature. In the surrounding

area paddy, chilies’ and pulses are grown. The quarry land belongs

to the Govt. of Andhra Pradesh.

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iii)Topography (along with map):

The lease area is along the southern slopes of massive hills(Δ 731)

the elevation difference between the ground level to highest point of

the lease area is7m. The MSL of the base point of the quarry area is

640m.The location of the lease area is marked on Survey of India

ToposheetNo.57G/9, which depicts the altitudes and other

Topographic features with in 5 Km radius of the site.

iv)Existing land use pattern (agriculture, non-agriculture, forest,

water bodies(including area under CRZ)), shortest distances

from the periphery of the project to periphery of the forests,

national park, wild lifesanctuary, eco sensitive areas, water

bodies ( distance from the HFL of the river), CRZ. In case of

notified industrial area, a copy of the Gazette notification should

be given:

Except for the hill tracks, the surrounding plain country with highly

fertile nature is used for cultivation for the crops like Groundnut ,

Jowar , Red Gram, Horse Gram, maize etc. As such there are no

major water bodies nearby except for the ChitravathiRiver at a

distance of15km in East. The minor village irrigation velidadakala

irrigation tankare at 2 km northeastThe project is located at 1.0 km

west of Errakonda R F. There are no National parks, wild life

sanctuaries and eco-sensitive areas in nearby.There are no notified

Industrial areas in nearby.

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v)Existing Infrastructure:

Since it is small mine no permanent structures are built.However, need based temporary structures are constructed for providing basic emanates to the work force.

vi)Soil classification:

There is no soil in the quarry area as it is a rocky exposure all over

the quarry area.

vii ) Climatic data from secondary sources:

The area falls in semi arid region and experiences maximum

temperature of 43°C in summer during April & May, while minimum

temperature of 18°Cin winter during December & January. The

average rain fall is of the order of 650 mm/year.The area experiences

maximum rain fall due to SW monsoon during June–September. It

also receives rain fall due to NE monsoon during November and

December.

viii)Social Infrastructure available:

The surrounding villages are well developed and are well connected

to the major Cities like Banglore,Anantapur,Hindupurand towns like

Penukonda,Gorantla, Puttaparthi, etcarewell-maintained black topped

wide roads.The towns which are nearby are equipped with good

educational, hospital and communication facilities.

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5. PLANNING BRIEF:

i) Planning Concept (type of industries, facilities, transportation etc) Town and county Planning/Development authority Classification: This quarry operation exists for more than a decade and hence it is in

the knowledge of the Town and County Planning Departments. As

such, medical, educational and transport facilities are well developed

in nearby Cities and Towns and they can be made use of by the

working personnel in the mine.

ii)Population Projection:

The population of the vil lages fall ing within 5 Km radius as

indicated below:

Vil lage Population

Peddireddipal l i 950

Velidedakala 880

Jangalapall i 860

Cherlopal l i 900

(source:Censes 2011)

iii)Land use planning (breakup along with green belt etc):

This is a small quarry which is located on a hill slope and hence there

is no scope for green belt development until the operation is

completed. However, after the quarrying operations are over the

degraded area due to quarrying shall developed as a green belt area

by reclamation. The reclamation of the quarry pit is by refilling.

iv)Assessment of Infrastructure Demand (Physical &Social):

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There are well developed infrastructural facilities in the nearby areas of the lease hold. Hence, there is no need to go for any such projects within the lease area or in nearby area.

v)Amenities/Facilities:

Since the area is inclose proximitywith the developed cities and

towns, the educational, medical and communication facilities

available there can make use of. Besides, need based

facilities/services arealso provided by the proponent.

Vi). Proposed Infrastructure:

i)Industrial Area (Processing Area): There are no demarcated specified industrial zones in the

area.However depending on the market demand a number of stone

crushing units wereestablished within the reasonabledistances.

ii)Residential Area (Non Processing Area):

No residential constructions are proposed in the area since there are

good number of villages (within 5 km distance) which can be make use

for staying by the quarry workers.

iii)Green Belt:

After the closure of the quarry development of green belt is proposed

after reclamation.

iv)Social Infrastructure:

The area is very well accessible.

v)Connectivity (Traffic and Transportation Road/

Rail/Metro/Water ways etc):

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The quarry area is at about 2.0 kmdistance from the National Highway

No NH44and is also at a distance of about90 Km from Ananthapur.

Therefore, it has very good road and rail connectivity.

vi)Drinking Water Management (Source & Supply of water):

All the nearby villages are having potable water source from the local

bodies and hence there is no problem for potable water supply.

vii)Sewerage System:

The project as such is devoid of human habitation and hence no

need to have the linkage with sewerage system.

viii)Industrial Waste Management:

No industrial waste management is required since no waste

materialis generated.

ix)Solid Waste Management:

No solid waste management since there is no solid waste is

generated in the quarry operations.

x)Power Requirement & Supply / source: No power requirement,since the operations are confined to day time

only.

CONCLUSIONS:

In the light of the above explanations, in order to meet the basic

requirements of mankind such as Rods, buildings and infrastructure