Coal: Mining

(asked on 8th April 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will publish the (a) name and (b) location of surface coal mines in the UK that are producing coal for all purposes; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
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Claire Perry
This question was answered on 16th April 2019

The list of surface coal mines and their locations is below, as of March 2019.

Name of mine

Location

Bradley

Durham

Brenkley Lane

Newcastle upon Tyne

East Pit East Revised

Neath Port Talbot

Ffos-y-Fran

Merthyr Tydfil

Field House

Durham

Glan Lash

Carmarthenshire

Halton-Le-Gate

Northumberland

Harrington Reclamation

Derbyshire

House of Water

East Ayrshire

Nant Helen

Powys

Shotton Surface Mine

Northumberland

Shotton SW & Triangle

Northumberland

Reticulating Splines