India, April 10 -- Despite spiraling operational costs, on account of increased prices of explosives and industrial diesel, the State owned Coal India (CIL) is absorbing the price shock insulating India's coal users from escalating cost burden. Any pass through of the mounting prices would lead to a cascading effect. The company is also compensating the increased price of the industrial diesel to the contractors, operating in CIL's mines, who purchase it in bulk quantities.The cost of Ammonium Nitrate (AN) which makes up for around 60% of the material composition in manufacturing of explosives, which CIL uses in its opencast mines, increased by 44 percent from pre-war level of Rs.50,500 per metric ton to Rs.72,750 metric per ton as of 1 Apr...