(1)

The holder of a mining lease shall keep the following digitally prepared plans and sections, namely:-

(a) a surface plan showing location and number of the boundary pillars along with its latitude and longitude values, every surface feature within the mining lease boundaries, such as building, telephone, power transmission line, water pipeline, tramline, railway, road, river, water-course, reservoir, tank, bore-hole, shaft and incline opening, opencast working, dumps and dumping ground, the waste land, forest, sanctuaries, agricultural land and grazing land and subsidence on the surface beneficiation plants, tailing ponds and other workings within the lease;

(b) a surface geological plan of the area of leasehold showing-

(c) a transverse section or sections of the workings through the shaft or shafts and main adits indicating clearly the strike and dip of the vein, lode, reef, mineral bed or deposit at different points, and such sections of the strata sunk or driven through in the mine or proved by boreholes, as may be available;

(d) a longitudinal mine section or sections showing a vertical projection of the mine workings including outlines of all stoped out areas, where a reef, vein, lode or mineral bed or deposit or part thereof has dip exceeding thirty degrees from the horizontal plane:

(e) an underground plan, applicable for underground mines, showing-

(2)

Whenever the underground plan referred to in clause (e) of sub-rule (1) is brought up-to-date, the then position of the workings shall be shown by a dotted line drawn through the ends of the workings, and such dotted line shall be marked with the date of the last survey:

Provided that the competent authority may, by an order in writing and subject to such conditions as he may specify therein, approve any other method of showing the up-to-date position of the workings of the mine.

(3)

Where different reefs, lodes, veins or mineral beds or deposits overlie or run parallel to one another, the workings of each reef, lode, vein or mineral bed or deposit shall be shown on separate plan or longitudinal section or sections:

Provided that if two reefs, lodes, veins or mineral beds or deposits are so situated in relation to each other that the parting between workings made therein is less than ten meters at any place, such workings shall also be shown on a combined plan or longitudinal section, as the case may be, in different colours.

(4)

The plans kept under clauses (a) and (e) of sub-rule (1) shall also show the settled boundary of the mining lease, or where the boundary is in dispute, the boundaries claimed by the holder of the mining lease and by the holders of the mining lease adjacent to the disputed boundary:

Provided that where it is not possible to show the complete boundary of leasehold on the same plan an additional key plan on any other suitable scale showing such boundaries and the outline of the workings shall also be maintained.

(5)

The holder of a mining lease shall keep the following, namely:-

(a) a key plan on a scale of 1: 50,000 incorporating the following:

(b) an environment plan of the area of mining lease inclusive of the adjoining area within five hundred meters of the boundary of a lease area on 1: 5000 scale incorporating the following:

(6)

The competent authority may, by an order in writing, require such additional details to be shown on the plans and sections required to be kept under these rules or the preparation and maintenance of such plans and sections showing such details and on such scale and within such time as he may specify in the order.

(7)

The competent authority may, by an order in writing, require the holder of a mining lease to provide him within such time, such plans and sections, or tracings thereof, as he may specify in the order.