Identification

Title

Inventory of Closed Mining Waste Facilities

Alternative title(s)

MINING_WASTE_CLOSED_SITES

Abstract

This metadata record is for Approval for Access product AfA260. The European Mining Waste Directive (2006/21/EC) requires Member States to create an inventory of closed or abandoned mine waste facilities causing serious environmental impacts, and to make this inventory available to the public. A waste facility means any area designated for the accumulation or deposit of extractive waste. Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2015. All rights reserved

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://environment.data.gov.uk/DefraDataDownload/?mapService=EA/InventoryOfClosedMiningWasteFacilities&Mode=spatial

protocol: DSP:ESRI

name: InventoryOfClosedMiningWasteFacilities_Download

description: Inventory of Closed Mining Waste Facilities Download

https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/inventory-of-closed-mining-waste-facilities/wms

protocol: WMS

name: InventoryOfClosedMiningWasteFacilities_WMS

description: Inventory of Closed Mining Waste Facilities WMS

https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/inventory-of-closed-mining-waste-facilities/wfs

protocol: WFS

name: InventoryOfClosedMiningWasteFacilities_WFS

description: Inventory of Closed Mining Waste Facilities WFS

Unique resource identifier

code

DSTR03260

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

environment

geoscientificInformation

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

mine

mining waste

OpenData

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-13

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-6.236

East bounding longitude

2.072

North bounding latitude

55.816

South bounding latitude

49.943

Extent

Extent group

authority code

code identifying the extent

http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/doc/country/england

Extent group

authority code

code identifying the extent

http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/doc/country/wales

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2010-04-01T00:00:00

End position

Dataset reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2011-01-01

date type

revision

effective date

2014-04-15

Frequency of update

biannually

Quality and validity

Lineage

Contains water quality data from Water Information Management System (WIMS) and plotted as points.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

Open format | Shapefile (SHP)

version of format

Not Applicable

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Open Government Licence

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

Environment Agency

email address

data.info@environment-agency.gov.uk

web address

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/environment-agency

description: Environment Agency Website

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Environment Agency

email address

data.info@environment-agency.gov.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2019-03-18

Metadata language