Surface Coal Resource Areas

• Published by: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
• Last updated: 31 August 2021
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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: 2021-08-30T12:24:39
• Access contraints: Not specified
• Harvest GUID: 9b451c9ceeffe489a65756d5d293bbac525a0aff
• Extent: Latitude: 60.010291° to 49.766186°
• Extent: Longitude: -9.141715° to 2.475924°
• 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
• Source Metadata: XML
• Source Metadata: HTML

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