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India's NALCO gets govt nod to mine coal block
BHUBANESWAR : India 's state-run National Aluminium Co Ltd (NALCO) , the country's third largest producer of aluminium,
BHUBANESWAR: India's state-run National Aluminium Co Ltd (NALCO) , the country's third largest producer of aluminium, said it has received government approval to mine a coal block in Orissa, which has an estimated reserve of 70 million tonnes.
The allocated Utkal-E coal block will meet the requirements of new units of NALCO's captive power plant at Angul, a district in the eastern state of Orissa, which supplies power to its aluminium smelter, the company said in a statement.
Copyright Reuters, 2011
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