Surface Coal Resource Areas

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19 June 2024
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Summary

The Surface Coal Resource Areas define the coal resources capable of being extracted by surface mining methods, often referred to as ‘opencast’. This information is used by Local Planning Authorities as part of the duty to safeguard minerals from unnecessary sterilisation. The surface coal resource areas shown have been derived from current information available to the Coal Authority and British Geological Survey.

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Added to data.gov.uk
2021-08-30
Access contraints
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Harvest GUID
9b451c9ceeffe489a65756d5d293bbac525a0aff
Extent
Latitude: 60.010291° to 49.766186°
Longitude: -9.141715° to 2.475924°
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Dataset reference date
2011-11-29T00:00:02 (revision)
Frequency of update
asNeeded
Responsible party
The Coal Authority (pointOfContact)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng
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