Mining Plan: Unlike other minerals deposits, sand deposits are not in-situ deposits but are
dynamic in nature. The deposition of sand takes places every year during monsoon. The
amount of sand sediments deposition of sand in particularly river stretch may very year to
year depending upon a number of factors like rain fall in the catchment area, bed slope,
amount of sand excavated from that area etc' Also the thickness of the sand bed in a
particular stretch of a river is not of uniform thickness. So the methods of reserve
estimation usually used for estimation of other mineral deposit which are in situ in nature
cannot be used to estimate the sand reserve. The reserve of sand in the proposed mine is
estimated based on the following facts and assumptions:
a is 68800 sqm (6.88 ha)
bed varies from 1.0m to 2m.