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Openpit coal mining in the United Kingdom Most came from Scotland with the largest operator there being the Scottish Coal subsidiary of Scottish Resources Group Actual production in 2010 was over 13 million tonnes but this has declined to less than 8 million tonnes in 2014

OPENCAST mining operator Hargreaves Services is to spend more than £3 million accelerating the closure of most of its sites in Scotland with the loss of around 350 jobs Only one – House of Water in Ayrshire – will remain

Nov 21 2001 · Figures from 1997 show that Scotland had 40 per cent of opencast mining in the UK and the figure was increasing In Scotland 87 per cent of applications for opencast mining were accepted whereas in England and Wales only 11 per cent were accepted I would welcome hearing whether the Executive views with equanimity the extraordinary difference between the levels of acceptance of

DAVID Murray chairman of Rangers and Murray International Holdings has set up an opencast mining company and outflanked Scottish Coal to develop a major site in central Scotland

Nov 08 2013 · Miner miracle Scots workers joy as opencast mine is set to reopen in Fife WORK at St Ninians which fell victim to Scottish Coals collapse is due to restart after one of Europes leading

The opencast mine where the protest took place is owned by the Earl of Home Mainshill The location has been the target of many protests in central Scotland against the practice of opencast mining In all there are four other opencast mines in the immediate area around Mainshill

Hargreaves a mining firm from south of the border in Durham bought up a number of the assets from Scottish Coal including mines in East Ayrshire with the hope that the scale and diversity of its operations within the energy sector can provide a firmer footing for Scotland’s coal deposits

Feb 22 2017 · Following the liquidation of Scotland’s two largest coal mining companies a crossparty Scottish opencast coal task force was established to deal with the key issues of coal sector employment improving regulation and promoting restoration of legacy sites

Nov 08 2013 · Miner miracle Scots workers joy as opencast mine is set to reopen in Fife WORK at St Ninians which fell victim to Scottish Coals collapse is due to restart after one of Europes leading

Feb 22 2017 · Following the liquidation of Scotland’s two largest coal mining companies a crossparty Scottish opencast coal task force was established to deal with the key issues of coal sector employment improving regulation and promoting restoration of legacy sites

A FLAGSHIP opencast mine in Ayrshire has been put up for sale by its owners the Kier Group Greenburn mine near New Cumnock in Ayrshire has been hailed as a model for opencast mine development with more than 65 million tonnes of coal extracted since 2004 and permission granted for at least another 15 million tonnes

Hargreaves a mining firm from south of the border in Durham bought up a number of the assets from Scottish Coal including mines in East Ayrshire with the hope that the scale and diversity of its operations within the energy sector can provide a firmer footing for Scotland’s coal deposits

1 The Scottish Opencast Coal Taskforce was set up in 2013 in response to two coal company liquidations which had repercussions for employment continued coaling and restoration at a number of sites across the Scottish coalfields The Taskforce is represented by the affected councils the Coal Authority the relevant

DAVID Murray chairman of Rangers and Murray International Holdings has set up an opencast mining company and outflanked Scottish Coal to develop a major site in central Scotland

The opencast mine where the protest took place is owned by the Earl of Home Mainshill The location has been the target of many protests in central Scotland against the practice of opencast mining In all there are four other opencast mines in the immediate area around Mainshill

The Friends of St Aidans care for Oddball a Bucyrus Erie BE 1150 Walking Dragline Excavator which was used in opencastsurface coal mining This giant machine is preserved on the site where it last worked at Swillington Leeds Public Open Days throughout the year

Mining new coal is not in the UKs national interest Even established industry players such as Hargreaves which is active at six coal mine sites in Scotland have had to radically reduce coal output and their number of employees as the price of coal has plummeted on the world market

Jan 27 2013 · from Sunday Herald 27 January 2013 Private companies are planning a massive expansion of opencast coal mining in Scotland according to information released by the UK government’s Coal Authority As many as 21 developments are being proposed across the central belt and in the south to dig out more than 37 tonnes of coal

Hargreaves to halt output at most Scottish opencast mines In July 2014 it had a headcount of 500 Its existing sites in Scotland are Broken Cross South Lanarkshire Duncanziemere House of Water and Netherton East Ayrshire Glenmuckloch Dumfries and Galloway and Muir Dean and St Ninians Fife It also runs two mines in England and Wales

National Coal Board records reference CB Also useful are Robert Balds reports on various collieries throughout Scotland between 1808 and 1825 CB27 which give details of mineral deposits workings buildings and drainage at the collieries Bald 17761861 was one of the earliest and most eminent mining engineers and land surveyors in Scotland

Spoil left by open cast coal mining at the abandoned Westfield mine in Perth and Kinross Scotland UK At 215 metres deep it is the deepest open cast Parys Mountain Copper mine near Amlwch on the island of Anglesey North Wales UK

A FRESH wave of protest and anger has swept the Greengairs area of Lanarkshire after a controversial new proposal by an opencast mining company to discharge effluent from a new mine into local

Dec 12 2013 · Opencast mine owners cannot walk away from clean up court rules But the liquidators said a longterm solution still had to be found Scottish Coal operated opencast mines in a number of areas in central Scotland including Ayrshire South Lanarkshire and Fife The firm went into liquidation in April this year while another company running opencast mines ATH Resources was wound up in May

The fact that it is often cited as a showcase for opencast mining means the sale has come as a surprise to the industry but analysts pointed out that Greenburn was Kier’s only mine in Britain and as such did not fit in with the rest of the company’s profile though it has mining interests in Saudi Arabia

Spoil left by open cast coal mining at the abandoned Westfield mine in Perth and Kinross Scotland UK At 215 metres deep it is the deepest open cast Above ground at a Northern England coalmine in 1920

Jan 22 2014 · Opencast mining update The Council has agreed a series of actions to address the issue of opencast mining restoration in East Ayrshire following the collapse of Scottish Coal and Aardvark earlier this year These actions are in relation to a number of issues including local employment and business impacts environmental considerations

TWO men were killed yesterday in an industrial accident at an opencast mine Both were pronounced dead at the scene of the incident which took place shortly before 1pm at the Pennyvenie open

opencast mining efficiency produce Kenya Why Kenya should be wary of coal mining pitfalls The It is what Kenya is hoping to mine and generate electricity from decades of open cast coal mining that is only now beginning the process of reclaiming the derelict land for decades in the

From threat to future assetThe legacy of opencast surface Window of opportunity to guarantee longterm access to major surface mine opencast surface mining operations in Scotland and footfall as a driver for Cost Trends in Mining Marston Cost Trends in Mining

Around a third of total UK opencast coal production was mined in Scotland in 2010 2 However the collapse of the two largest opencast coal operators has exposed the poor standards of regulation and enforcement that govern this industry and demonstrated the poor financial regulation of

27 1 Spring 2001 Iron Mining on the Isle of Raasay Scotland by Rota The massive iron deposits were discovered during surveys carried out before the Great War During the 191418 war they were worked by Baird Ltd who mined 140000 tons underground and 12000 tons opencast

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Surface mined coal statistics This survey previously known as the Opencast Coal Survey has been renamed to Survey of Surface Mined Coal to better reflect modern methods used to extract shallow coal and align with terminology used by the Coal Authority and the coal extraction industry

Scottish opencast mining which constitutes an ‘activity’ under the Groundwater Regulations poses little risk of introducing List I substances into groundwater but it has substantial potential to lead to