The two projects, one located in Shanxi Province and the other in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

The coal mine's annual production capacity will be 3 million tonnes.

Shanxi has been very clear its goal to lower its annual production of coal to 1 billion tons by 2020.

However, iron ore imports during the period declined 2.4 percent to 784 million tons.

As coal accounts for a major part of China's energy consumption, efforts are needed to make scientific coal exploration plans.

To combat this, a number of mine operators are opting for radar transmitters.

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The move will put an end to Coal India’s near-monopoly in fuel provision.