Wildlife shrinks Vedanta's gold mine in Chattisgarh

The mine is the oldest explored gold deposit in the Central India, having commercial potential

Vedanta Resources, one of the world's largest diversified natural resources companies, would have to lose about one-fourth of the area in the gold mine that it bagged in Chhattisgarh due to the movement of wildlife.

The London-listed mining major had been allotted the Baghmara (Sonakhan) gold mine, which was country’s first mine carrying the yellow metal to be auctioned. The company would be granted the composite licence that includes both prospecting licence and mining lease.

The Baghmara mine is spread across an area of 608 hectares in a densely forested pocket of the Balodabazar-Bhatapara district — about 130 km