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Mapping of old coal mine galleries near railway track using electrical resistivity tomography and magnetic approaches in Tundu, Jogidih Colliery, Jharia Coalfield, India

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Underground galleries possess random subsidence threats if they are not treated well. Threats even become multifold when these galleries are located somewhere in the vicinity of the railway tracks. So, checking the stable ground formation or the health of the subsurface formation near railway tracks and mapping the galleries are very important tasks for the sake of the environment, economy and lives. Galleries under the present study are associated with the coal seam-X and seam-XA of the Jogidih Colliery of Jharia Coalfield. Seven electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) profiles and magnetic surveys were performed at a side of the railway track to characterize the subsurface formation near railway tracks and to detect the gallery and its extension. Both ERT and magnetic data analysis suggest the presence of some galleries at a certain distance from the railway tracks. Moreover, combined analysis of ERT and magnetic data suggests that ground within ~20 m from the railway tracks is found to be stable with homogeneous compact formation.

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The authors are grateful to the Editorial Team, the Journal of Earth System Science and the distinguished anonymous reviewers for their quick, comprehensive review and thoughtful suggestions for improving the manuscript. The authors are grateful to the Director, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad and HOD, Department of Applied Geophysics, for allowing them to carry out this study and providing all the technical help needed. The authors are thankful to ISRO, Department of Space, Government of India, for funding project ISRO/RES/630/2016-17; Ministry of Coal, Government of India, for funding project CMPDI/B&PRO/MT-173; and Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, for funding project nos. SB/S4/ES-640/2012, FST/ES-I/2017/12, and DST/TDT/SHRI-16/2021(C&G).

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    Saurabh Srivastava, Rajwardhan Kumar & Sanjit Kumar Pal

  2. Department of Mining Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) Dhanbad, Dhanbad, 826 004, India

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Saurabh Srivastava: Conceptualization; methodology, writing – original draft preparation, data preparation, interpretation. Rajwardhan Kumar: Data preparation, interpretation. Sanjit Kumar Pal: Conceptualization, methodology, formal analysis and investigation, writing – review and editing, interpretation, supervision. R M Bhattacharjee: Formal analysis, interpretation and supervision.

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Srivastava, S., Kumar, R., Pal, S.K. et al. Mapping of old coal mine galleries near railway track using electrical resistivity tomography and magnetic approaches in Tundu, Jogidih Colliery, Jharia Coalfield, India. J Earth Syst Sci 133, 57 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12040-023-02253-4

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