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{{stub}}{{#badges: CoalSwarm|Navbar-Indiacoal}} '''Singareni Collieries Co. Ltd.''' (SCCL) is a coal mining company in India that is 50% owned by the Andhra Pradesh State government and 50% by the Indian government.<ref>U.S. Geological Survey, [http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/country/2006/myb3-2006-in.pdf "Table 2 India: Structure of the Mineral Industry in 2006"], in ''2006 Minerals Yearbook'', U.S. Geological Survey, March 2008, pages 10.11 - 10.12.</ref>
SCCL is India’s oldest coal miner, and the second largest Indian coal miner after [[Coal India]]. SCCL operates 13 opencast and 42 underground mines in the Godavari River Valley, in southern India, producing 52-million tons a year of coal, as of 2011. The Godavari River Valley basin is estimated to have a coal reserve of 8.79-billion tons along a single 350-km stretch.<ref name=mw>[http://www.miningweekly.com/article/indias-sccl-stars-190m-adriyala-coal-mine-2011-07-01 "India’s SCCL stars $190m Adriyala coal mine"] Miners Weekly, july 1, 2011.</ref>
==Adilabad power plant==
In April 2011, it was reported that SCCL had achieved financial closure for its $1.4-billion [[Adilabad power project Power Station]] in Andhra Pradesh, where it will construct two 600 MW units.<ref name=mw/> It is expected to be operational in April 2014. Of the 1200 MW, 150 MW would be earmarked for SCCL's use and the remaining 1050 MW would be sold to [[AP Transco]].<ref>[http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/sscl-achieves-financial-closure-for-adilabad-power-plant/633535.html "SSCL achieves financial closure for Adilabad power plant"] IBN Live, April 1, 2011.</ref>
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