Mr Philip Noel-Baker, Derby South 12:00 am, 19th July 1950 . The Opposition have asked that we should discuss this afternoon the opencast working of coal. I warmly welcome their suggestion, as I think it is high time opencast coal working was debated in this House. I have never disguised the fact that, like other right hon. and hon. Members, I regret some of the results to which opencast ...

R. D. Longhurst, M. B. O'Connor and M. R. J. Toxopeus, Pasture establishment and fertiliser requirements on rehabilitated land after opencast coal mining in New Zealand, New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research, 42, 1, (27), (1999).

1950s, historical, coal mining, mine workers in a large open area near the pit-head with an open-topped railway goods wagon filled with coal, England, UK. History of Reaping MaehinesNo. 25 Inspection of Mines in England. British Railways. Coal of Pennsylvania. Work in the Country. LITERARY NOTICES. Inventors and Manufacturers ED PERIODICAL devoted chiefly to the promulgation of information ...

The Opencast Coal Act of 1958 features large in every account of the fifty-year history of opencast coal working in the United Kingdom. It marked a crucial stage in the transition from a highly-centralised approach to planning the location, working and restoration of opencast coal sites towards a system that gave greater prominence to the local planning authorities. The three attempts made by ...

opencast coal 1950. The death of UK coal in five charts - Our World in Data . Jan 28, 2019 · Deepmined coal dominated most of the UK's production history. In fact, opencast coal extraction was negligible until the 1940s. But as we see in the chart below, from the 1960s onwards there has been a continued decline in deepmined coal. Kellingley colliery, the UK's last deep coal mine closed in ...

British Coal Opencast is responsible to British Coal for the development, evaluation, planning and supervision of opencast coal mining operations in England, Scotland and Wales. By extracting coal from seams at shallow depth opencast mining helps to provide valuable fuel for the nation, earns profits for British Coal, offers imaginative restoration and the removal of industrial dereliction ...

opencast coal workings remained largely in the hands of central government, outside the normal regime of planning control introduced in that year. In the 1950s opencast production averaged over 10 million tonnes per year and there was a growing appreciation of the environmental significance of such operations. The Opencast Coal Act 1958 sought to provide a more comprehensive framework for .

Opencast Coal Site at Stanleyc 1950s. Image ref DCER001490. Credit Mr Jack Moore ImageDate c 1950s. Location Opencast Coal Site. Town Stanley. About this image. From left to right: Ginger Keen, Pat Ford, Jack Moore. Help us to improve our records. If you can improve our knowledge about this image we'd be happy to hear from you. Please contact us here. Subject tags. Mining. Personalise a ...

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Opencast working only. 2. At Padiham the Fulledge Thin and King Coals unite to form the Padiham Thick seam (c.3.5m). 3. This well established seam name is confusing. Apart from the occasional occurrence of a thin band of cannel towards the roof the seam usually consists of normal bituminous coal. 4. South west of Burnley the Union Coal splits into the Lower Mountain Coal (0.7 m) and Upper .

HC Deb 06 November 1950 vol 480 c587 587 § 37. Mr. Fort. asked the Minister of Fuel and Power how much compensation has been paid to the contractors working the opencast coal sites at Higham, near Burnley. § Mr. P. Noel-Baker. I have received no information about the payment of any compensation to the contractors who are working the opencast site at Higham, near Burnley. § 39. Mr. Fort ...

Government figures show that in 2018 UK coal production, which has declined by 95 per cent since the 1950s, fell to just 2.6m tonnes, the lowest in well over a century.

Stockton Opencast Mine 1950s. Expand/collapse. About this image. Description Shared from Timespanner. Date of Photo 1950's Map [1 ] Contributor Maye Dunn. Shown in this image. Location (city or town) Stockton mine Organisation (eg business) Stockton opencast coalmine. Category Information. Category Tag Coal Mining. From Facebook. Date Created 5th December 2018. OCR Text .

opencast coal workings remained largely in the hands of central government, outside the normal regime of planning control introduced in that year. In the 1950s opencast production averaged over 10 million tonnes per year and there was a growing appreciation of the environmental significance of such operations. The Opencast Coal Act 1958 sought to provide a more comprehensive framework for .

OPENCAST COAL MINING (Hansard, 10 May 1950) Search Help. HANSARD 1803–2005 → 1950s → 1950 → May 1950 → 10 May 1950 → Commons Sitting → ORDERS OF THE DAY. OPENCAST COAL MINING. HC Deb 10 May 1950 vol 475 cc533-44 533 § Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Mr. Popplewell.] § 11.15 p.m. § Mr. Nabarro (Kidderminster) In the .

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26.04.2013 · Essel Mining & Industries Limited (EMIL), established in 1950, ... Geological Survey Open File Report 2006-1241 ... largest opencast coal mine in the world (fig. 3) and is the largest coal ... List of Figures. 1. Location of . »More detailed: The Chronicle: March 2013 Alumni World *Ram Charan (Mechanical 1959) is # 169 in Time's list for the world's most influential . In 1973, all Non ...

Coal Mines in Yorkshire 1854. Name: Parish: From: To: Comments: Babes in Wood Dewsbury 1862 1887 Back Lane Clayton West, Huddersfield 1913 1915 Abandoned Bagden Wood Clayton West, Huddersfield 1940 1955 Baildon Moor Baildon, Bradford 1855 1904 Abandoned June 1904. Balaklava West Ardsley, Leeds 1860 1887 Balance Booth Hepworth, Holmfirth 1874 1875 Abandoned August .

1948 1950 1952 1954 1956 1958 1960 1962 63/64 65/66 67/68 69/70 71/72 73/74 75/76 77/78 79/80 81/82 83/84 85/86 87/88 89/90 91/92 93/94 95/96 97/98 99/00 01/02 03/04 05/06 07/08 09/10 Figure 1: Summary of UK Coal Production from Opencast sites (1947 – 2010) UK Coal Authority () 7 Opencast coal mining: process and method Opencast mining, a method of .

1873-1990: records incl colliery tip plans, plans of colliery pit-head baths and other surface buildings, maps of coal seams in the South Wales Coalfield, files from the National Coal Board South Wales Area rel to collieries in West Glamorgan, records of accidents at South Wales collieries and compensation paid, National Coal Board Scientific Reports, deeds and documents relating to collieries ...

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