The Bastacolla Area was formed with 33 mines of the pre-nationalised era.

The primitive culture then prevailing contributed to low productivity of mines.

However, as the collieries do not have individual pages, there are no links in the full screen map.

The Bastacolla Area is situated in the eastern portion of Jharia coalfield.

[2] An overview of the proposed mining activity plan in Cluster VIII (data shown here is as per amendment sought), a group of 6 mines in the Bastacolla Area, as of 2013, is as follows:[3] 1.

Ghanoodih colliery is affected by surface fire in the south-east portion of the quarry.