Mining in the early days was carried out through manual and semi-manual methods, causing large scale degradation of land, forests and environment, and resulting in mine fires and subsidence.

In 1972, the mines of Jharia coalfield were taken over by BCCL from the erstwhile private owners and were reorganised.

National Highway 19 (old number NH 2)/ Grand Trunk Road runs 6.5 km north of the Area.

The opencast mine has a normative annual production capacity of 2.0 million tonnes per year and peak annual production capacity of 2.6 million tonnes per year.

The underground mine has a normative annual production capacity of 0.19 million tonnes per year and peak annual production capacity of 0.247 million tonnes per year.