Surface Mining (Past and Current)

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19 June 2024
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Summary

Surface Mining Areas denote an area of coal extracted by surface excavations in the past or are being excavated currently, these sites do not necessarily reflect the extent of the excavation. Coal resources may still be available within these areas due to the inefficiencies of some historic mining techniques. These areas are often referred to as “opencast mining”. Together with the Surface Coal Resource Area data, provide information to Mineral Planning Authorities for assisting in defining Mineral Safeguarding Areas in policy strategy.

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Added to data.gov.uk
2021-08-26
Access contraints
Not specified
Harvest GUID
4ae404d75df913e9432cd06ad6d5836e40c2d090
Extent
Latitude: 60.010291° to 49.766186°
Longitude: -9.141715° to 2.475924°
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Dataset reference date
2014-09-26T00:00:05 (publication)
Frequency of update
asNeeded
Responsible party
The Coal Authority (pointOfContact)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng
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