Surface Coal Mining

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Last updated:
08 December 2025
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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
2025-12-08
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This data, service or application is provided free of charge under the terms and conditions of the Open Government Licence. If you need any additional advice please contact the Customer Service Team on +44 (0) 345 762 6848 or at groundstability@coal.gov.uk
Harvest GUID
4ae404d75df913e9432cd06ad6d5836e40c2d090
Extent
Latitude: 56.3123° to °
Longitude: -4.8352° to -1.1557°
Spatial reference system
CRS:84
Dataset reference date
2014-08-14T00:01:46 (revision)
2014-09-26 (publication)
Frequency of update
Responsible party
The Coal Authority (pointOfContact)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng
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