Opencast Coal Site Maps
Primary Geological Data resulting from Open Cast Coal exploration in British coalfield areas. Maps showing the site outlines of opencast coal prospecting sites annotated with site reference number. Sites date back to the 1940s. Outlines drawn on 1:25000 scale topographic bases. The majority of the collection was deposited with the National Geological Records Centre by the Coal Authority in July 2001.
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Date of deposit by British Coal 2001, sites covered dates back to 1940's although maps probably created in the early 1960s. No new data. Complete collection deposited but otherwise completeness is unknown. Third Party Dataset.
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2008-06-01
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Mine shafts
Geophysics
Open cut mining
Boreholes
Geology
Mines
Coal
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2022
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1940
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2001
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Data deposited with BGS by the Coal Authority.
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2011
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2010-12-08
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See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF
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