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Inventory of Closed Mining Waste Facilities

Publisher
Environment Agency
Updated
12 September 2025
Topic
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Summary

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

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Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
25 July 2025
Harvest GUID
65ef1430-d465-11e4-96c6-f0def148f590
Extent (Latitude)
55.816° to 49.943°
Extent (Longitude)
-6.236° to 2.072°
Spatial reference system
http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700
Dataset reference date (creation)
2011-01-01
Dataset reference date (revision)
2014-04-15
Frequency of update
biannually
Access constraints
There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.
Responsible party
Environment Agency (pointOfContact)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng

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