Barapukuria coal mine faces severe crisis22 Nov 2025 18:17
you could not make it up, what a total **** up…
just get the coal sold to local industries!!!
bangladesh’s only operational coal mine at barapukuria is now passing through one of its worst crises in years, with extraction continuing under contractual obligation but the adjacent coal-fired power plant almost entirely shut. this mismatch between production and offtake has pushed coal stockpiles to levels far beyond the mine’s safe storage capacity, raising fears of landslides, spontaneous combustion, and a potential shutdown that could deepen the country’s existing energy instability.
despite bangladesh possessing five discovered coalfields-barapukuria, phulbari, khalashpir, dighipara, and jamalganj-only barapukuria has been in commercial production for decades. its output has historically been used almost entirely by the nearby 525mw barapukuria thermal power plant. this system worked efficiently when the power plant ran at stable capacity, but since two of the three generating units have been idle for months and the remaining one operates on and off, the mine is now producing coal that has nowhere to go.
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