MCDR INSPECTION REPORT S/ No. 1 Name of the Mine Navalutti Iron Ore Mine 2 Total Lease Area (Ha) with breakup of Non-forest & forest land

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1 MCDR INSPECTION REPORT S/ No. Particulars Details 1 Name of the Mine Navalutti Iron Mine 2 Total Lease Area (Ha) with breakup of Non-forest & forest land 32.40Ha (excluding 2.0 Hect. of road). Complete forest area. 3 Minecode 30KAR IBM Registration Number under rule 45 of MCDR, 1988 IBM/4103/ Name of the lessee, Address, phone, and fax number M/s. HR Gaviappa & Co. 6 Village Navalutti 7 Taluk/Mandal Sandur 8 District Bellary 9 Pincode State Karnataka 11 Post office Donimalai 12 Nearest police station Sandur 13 Nearest Railway station Ranjit pura 14 Date of Grant of Mining Lease Date of Execution Date of opening of Mine Date of first Renewal, if applicable and its period & expiry Years 18 Date of second Renewal, if applicable and its period (w.e.f.) & expiry 19 Date of submission of renewal application if Mining Operations are continuing under deemed extension 20 Name of the Nominated Owner with Address, phone, , fax number and date of appointment Page 1 of 7 1) Years 2) Years 3) Yrs 6 Months 4) Yrs 06 Months upto Shri HR Ranganagoud 3 rd Flore, HRG Complex, HRG Circle, Ballari (Phone) (Fax) Mr. VK Sambandam 21 Name of the Mine Agent with Address, phone, , fax number and date of appointment 22 Name of the Mines Manager with Address, phone, , fax number and date of appointment in mines 23 Name of the Mining Engineer, Qualification and total experience with Address, phone, , fax number and date of appointment in mine 24 Whether Geologist and Mining Engineer appointed in mines satisfy the rule 42 & carrying out their duties as per rule 43 & Date of Approval of Mining Plan/Modified Mining Plan with five-year period and specific condition in approval letter, if any. 26 Date of Approval of Scheme of Mining / Modified Scheme of Mining with five-year period and specific condition in approval letter, if any. 27 Mineral(s) granted in lease and proved for mining Iron 28 Method of Mining (Opencast, Underground) Open Cost 29 Category (Fully Mechanized, Others or Manual) Fully Mechanized 30 Captive/ Non captive Non Coptive Shri KD Kulkarni Ph.No Kiran.kulkarni1961@gmail.com. Mr. Dilip Kumar. BE (Mining) 20 Years Ph. No Geologist is not appointed /150/90/BNG No specific conditions were imposed. Dated , , , and (from to 15-16)

2 Scientific Mining: Compliance of proposals of approved Scheme of Mining. Exploration 1a Backlog of previous year BH 1b Exploration over lease area for Geological axis 1 or 2. 1c Exploration Agency & Expenditure in lakh Rupees during the year 1d Balance area to be explored to bring Geological axis in 1 or 2 1e Balance reserves as on f General remarks of geology, exploration etc BH Lessee himself by outsourcing. 42 Lakhs Violation is pointed out Milion Ton 1,03,879Te iron ore has been excavated during Proposed exploration has not been carried out so far, hence the violation is pointed out. Development 2a Location of development E E w.r.t. lease area E E N N N N b Separate benches in topsoil, overburden and mineral (Rule 15) 2c Stripping ratio or ore to OB ratio no separate of benches of Over burden and 1:1.57 1:0.20 No top soil, & Over Burden Vertically dipping, hence no separate of benches of Over burden and 2d Quantity of topsoil generation in M 3 2e Quantity of overburden generation in M 3 2f General remarks of development of pit w.r.t. type of deposit etc. 52,670M M 3 Violation has been pointed out for change in working place and less development work carried out. Page 2 of 7

3 Exploitation 3a Number of pits proposed for production 3b Quantity of ROM 1,04,916 1,03,879 Blanket ban mineral production with in limit proposed 3c Recovery of salable / 83,934 Processing is going usable mineral from on Practically no ROM production sub grade 3d Quantity of mineral 20,983 Processing is going generation. reject generation on Whatever 3e Grade of mineral reject 45-49% 45-49% encountered generation and threshold was blended value declared with high 3f Quantity of sub-grade ,983 Processing is going grade ore and mineral generation on sold. 3g Grade of sub-grade Fines-49.15% Fines-49.15% mineral generation 3h Manual / Mechanized method adopted for segregating from ROM 3i Any analysis or beneficiation study proposed & carried out for sub-grade mineral and reject 3j Provision of drilling & blasting in mineral benches 3k Provision of mining machineries in mineral benches 3l Whether height of benches in overburden and mineral suitable for method of mining proposed in MP/SOM 3m 3n 3o Total area covered under excavation/pits to OB ratio for the pit/mine during the year Total area put in use under different heads at the end of year 3p Production of ROM mineral during last fiveyear period, as applicable 3q General remarks of method of mining etc. Lumps- Mechanized No Lumps % Mechanized No 9.8 Ha 9.8 Ha 1:157 1:0.20 Mining.9.8 ha Active Dump Idle Dump-5.4ha Road ha 1,04,916 1,03,879 Minig.9.8ha Active Dump Idle Dump-5.4 ha Road Green Belt-1.8 Violation has been pointed out for not carrying out the scheduled developmental works. Page 3 of 7

4 Solid Waste Management-Dumping 4a Separate dumping of E E topsoil, OB & mineral E E reject (Rule 32, 33) N N b 4c 4d 4e Location of topsoil, OB & mineral reject dumps Number of dumps within lease area and outside lease area Location of dumps w.r.t. ultimate pit limit (Rule 16) Number of active & alive dumps E E N Active dump-1 In active dump-1 EID-3 Outside the ultimate pit limit 4f Number of dead dumps g Number of dumps All All stabilized 4h Whether Retaining wall or garland drain all along dumps are there TW-3-385mtr GD-3-390mtr 4i Length of Retaining wall or garland drain all along dump =721(EA) =537(WLA) Total-1258MT E E N Active dump-1 In active dump-1 EID-3 Outside the ultimate pit limit TW-3-385mtr GD-3-390mtr =721(EA) =537(WLA) Total-1258MT 4j Number of settling ponds SST-2, SMCD-5 SST-2, SMCD-5 4k Specific comments of waste dump management. Worked satisfactorily. Solid Waste Management-Backfilling 5a Status on part or full extraction of mineral from mined out area before starting backfilling 5b Area under backfilling of mined out area 5c Concurrent use of topsoil for restoration or rehabilitation of mined out area (Rule 32) 5d Total area fully reclaimed & rehabilitated 5e General remarks of Not applicable backfilling, reclamation etc. Page 4 of 7

5 Progressive Mine Closure Plan 6a Whether Annual report on PMCP submitted on time and correctly - Rule 23E(2). Details should be given in the format as given in Annexure-20. Submitted under rule 23(E)(2) 6b 6c 6d 6e 6f Management of worked/mined out benches i) Area available for rehabilitation (ha) ii) Afforestation done (ha) iii) No. of saplings planted during the year iv) Cumulative no. of plants v) Any other specific method of rehabilitation vi) Cost incurred on watch & care during the year Compliance on reclamation and rehabilitation by backfilling i) Voids available for backfilling (L X B X D) ii) Void filled by waste/tailings iii) Afforestation on the backfilled area iv) Rehabilitation by making water reservoir v) Any other specific means Compliance of Rehabilitation of waste land within lease i) Afforestation ii) Area rehabilitated (ha) iii) Method of rehabilitation Compliance of Environmental monitoring (core zone & buffer zone) General remarks of inspecting officer on PMCP compliance & progressive closure operations Data Monitoring is to be carried out. Complied Data s are not maintained in bound paged regiaster. Violation is pointed out for not maiantaining the data in bound paged regiaster. Page 5 of 7

6 Mineral Conservation 7a ROM Mineral dispatch or grade-wise sorting within lease area 7b Method of grade-wise Mechanized Mechanized mineral sorting i.e. manual or mechanical 7c Different grade of mineral sorted out at mines 7d Any beneficiation process at mines N/A 7e General remarks of Worked satisfactorily. Mineral conservation & beneficiation issues Environment 8a Separate removal and utilization of topsoil (Rule 32) 8b Concurrent use or storage of topsoil For Plantation 8c Separate dumps for overburden, waste rock, rejects and fines (Rule 33) 8d Use of overburden, waste NA NA rock, rejects and fines dumps for restoring the land to its original use 8e Phased restoration, NA NA reclamation and rehabilitation of lands affected by mining operations (Pits, dumps etc) 8f Baseline information on Available existence of plantation & additional plantation done (Rule 41) 8g Survival rate 70% 70% 8h Water sprinkling on roads to control airborne dust One Tanker Is Provided. 8i General remarks of Worked satisfactorily. aesthetic beauty in and around mines area Page 6 of 7

7 Compliance of Rule 45 S/No. Item COMMENTS Remarks 9a Status of submission of M.R. Submitted up to Annual return Monthly and Annual April is not returns submitted. S/No. Item Details GIVEN in A.R. 9b Scrutiny of Annual return for information on Mining Engineer, Geologist and Manager 9c Scrutiny of Annual return on land use pattern for area under pits, reclaimed area, dumps etc. 9d Scrutiny of Annual return on afforestation 9e Scrutiny of Annual return on mineral reject generation (Grade & quantity) 9f Scrutiny of Annual return on ROM stock and/or graded ore 9g Scrutiny of Annual return on sale value, Ex. Mine price & production cost 9i Scrutiny of Annual return on fixed assets 9k Scrutiny of Annual return on mining machineries Observation of I/Officer Geologist is not appointed. Annual return for the year has not been submitted so far. Remarks Violation was not pointed out for nonsubmission of annual return because it is to submitted before 01 st July. Details of violations observed during current inspection and compliance position of earlier violation pointed out: No earlier violations are outstanding. Violations under rule 13(1), 21, 28 & 42 of MCDR-1988 are pointed out during this inspection vide letter dated 29 th june Date: 22 nd July 2015 [ Pukhraj Nenival ] Dy. Controller of Mines Page 7 of 7