Surface Mining (Past and Current)

• Published by: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
• Last updated: 31 August 2021
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• Licence: Other Licence ; View licence information

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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Link to the data	Format	File added	Data preview
Coal Authority - Planning and Policy Constraints View Service (WMS)	N/A	31 August 2021	Not available
Surface.Mining.Past.and.Current	N/A	31 August 2021	Not available

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2021-08-26T18:21:20
• Access contraints: Not specified
• Harvest GUID: 4ae404d75df913e9432cd06ad6d5836e40c2d090
• Extent: Latitude: 60.010291° to 49.766186°
• Extent: Longitude: -9.141715° to 2.475924°
• Dataset reference date: 2014-09-26T00:00:05 (publication)
• 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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