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Energy: Coal Mining

Answer

According to Coal Authority records, at the end of November 2007 there were seven large, two medium and nine small deep mines together with 33 surface mines producing coal or in development in the United Kingdom. A further five underground mines (one large and four small) and two surface mines were also under licence but on care and maintenance. Details of the names, locations, forecast 2008 output and employment at the developing and producing mines is given in the table below.

Country	Location	Type	Site	Output (t)	Manpower
England	Bolton	Surface	Cutacre	450,000	54
	Derbyshire	Deep	Eckington Colliery	20,000	26
		Surface	Oxcroft	15,000	12
	Doncaster	Deep	Hatfield Colliery	1,000,000	309
	Gloucestershire	Deep	Cannop Drift Mine	500	2
		Deep	Monument Colliery (Hayners Bailey)	500	3
	Kirklees	Deep	Hay Royds Colliery	20,000	13
		Surface	Temple Quarry	Developing	5
	Lancashire	Deep	Hill Top Colliery	Developing	1
	Leicestershire	Surface	Long Moor	Developing	50
	North Yorkshire	Deep	Kellingley Colliery	2,100,000	732
	Northumberland	Surface	Delhi	350,000	34
		Surface	Maiden's Hall Extension	300,000	114
		Surface	Steadsburn	Developing	50
		Surface	Stobswood	400,000	157
	Nottinghamshire	Deep	Thoresby Colliery	1,800,000	543
		Deep	Welbeck Colliery	1,200,000	484
	Rotherham	Deep	Maltby Colliery	1,200,000	487
	Shropshire	Surface	Caughley Quarry Extension	Developing	5
	Wakefield	Surface	Sharlston Colliery Reclamation	150,000	37
	Warwickshire	Deep	Daw Mill Colliery	2,500,000	655
Scotland	Dumfries and Galloway	Surface	Glenmuckloch	400,000	102
	East Ayrshire	Surface	Chalmerston	550,000	145
		Surface	Greenburn Project	850,000	76
		Surface	Grievehill Site	300,000	37
		Surface	House of Water	Developing	39
		Surface	Laigh Glenmuir Site	265,000	26
		Surface	Powharnal	600,000	122
		Surface	Skares Road	200,000	70
		Surface	Spireslack	150,000	38
	Fife	Surface	Earlseat	250,000	41
		Surface	Greenbank (St Ninians)	600,000	69
	Midlothian	Surface	Shewington	250,000	47
	South Lanarkshire	Surface	Chapelhill Site	500,000	75
		Surface	Glentaggart	200,000	37
		Surface	Wilsontown	150,000	15
	West Lothian	Surface	Polkemmet	50,000	80
Wales	Carmarthenshire	Surface	Dynant Fawr	20,000	14
	Merthyr Tydfil	Surface	Ffos-y-Fran Land Reclamation Scheme	Developing	70
	Neath Port Talbot	Deep	Aberpergwm Colliery	200,000	112
		Surface	Bwlch Ffos	10,000	17
		Surface	East Pit East Revised	Developing	15
		Deep	Gleision Colliery	Developing	4
		Surface	Margam Opencast	300,000	47
		Deep	Nant Hir No.2 Colliery	3,000	2
		Surface	Nant-y-Mynydd Site	Developing	28
		Surface	Selar	450,000	95
		Deep	Unity Mine	200,000	43
	Powys	Surface	Nant Helen	350,000	78
	Rhondda Cynon Taff	Deep	Tower Colliery	Closing Jan 08	227
	Torfaen	Deep	Black Barn Colliery	5,000	6
		Deep	Blaentillery No.2 Colliery	5,000	8
	Total	51	Total	18,364,000	5,558
	Deep	18	16 Producing but 1 closing in Jan 08, 2 Developing	10,254,000	3,654
	Surface		25 Producing, 8 Developing	8,110,000	1,904

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

1058; 697 c190-2WA

Session

2007-08

Subjects

Coal Mining Staff

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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