Read the following statements about Coal deposit in India carefully.
A. About 80 per cent of the coal deposit in India is lignite type.
B. The most important Gondwans Coal fields of India are located in Damodar Valley.
C. Tharia is the largest coal field of India.
D. Korba coal mining centre is located in West Bengal

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Coal is a one of the important minerals which is mainly used in the generation of thermal power and smelting of iron ore.
About 80 per cent of the coal deposits in India is of bituminous type and is of non-coking grade.
The most important Gondwana coal fields of India are located in Damodar Valley.
They lie in Jharkhand-Bengal coal belt and the important coal fields in this region are Raniganj, Jharia, Bokaro, Giridih, Karanpura.
Jharia is the largest coal field followed by Raniganj.
The other river valleys associated with coal are Godavari, Mahanadi and Sone.
The most important coal mining centres are Singrauli in Madhya Pradesh (part of Singrauli coal field lies in Uttar Pradesh), Korba in Chhattisgarh, Talcher and Rampur in Odisha, Chanda–Wardha, Kamptee and Bander in Maharashtra and Singareni in Telangana and Pandur in Andhra Pradesh.
Tertiary coals occur in Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya and Nagaland. It is extracted from Darangiri, Cherrapunji, Mewlong and Langrin (Meghalaya); Makum, Jaipur and Nazira in upper Assam, Namchik – Namphuk (Arunachal Pradesh) and Kalakot (Jammu and Kashmir).
Besides, the brown coal or lignite occur in the coastal areas of Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Gujarat and Jammu and Kashmir.

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