Sesa Goa, a majority-owned subsidiary of Vedanta Resources plc, expects the mining ban in Karnataka to be lifted by December, enabling it to resume normal production in the state from early 2012. Inspection of the company’s mine by apex court nominated agency is over and so the company is hoping, the case to come to a conclusion by this quarter. The company further anticipates, resuming its normal production and sales from the state by next quarter.
While imposing a complete ban on mining in Karnataka, in August, the apex court had directed to conduct a macro level environment impact assessment (EIA) of the areas by Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE), together with other expert agencies in the field of forestry. The court had directed to submit the EIA report within three months. Following the ban, Sesa Goa had stopped production from its only mine in Karnataka's Chitradurga district.
The company expects annual production of the company to remain at the last year's level or marginally higher, if production from Karnataka resumes in the January-March quarter. The mine has an annual production capacity of 6 million tonnes.
Before the mining ban, the company had an inventory of 800,000 tonnes of iron ore in its mine from Karnataka. Of this, 2,92,000 tonnes were sold through e-auction, which is being monitored by an apex court appointed panel. The company is expecting to sell rest of the stock in the coming months via the e-auction route. For the quarter ended September 30, 2011, Sesa Goa's consolidated net profit plunged over 99 per cent to Rs 1.28 crore due to foreign exchange losses and lower realization from iron ore.
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