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Depth of Abandoned Mine Workings - Scotland
Water in abandoned mine workings is a potential source of geothermal energy. It can used in space and water heating. The thermal energy that can be obtained tends to increase with depth. Alongside other data from the Scotland Heat Map, depth information is used to identify areas where geothermal energy could be used as a low carbon, renewable heat source. Depth is given in meters and is displayed using contour lines.
This data comes from a 2013 Scottish Government commissioned study into the potential for deep geothermal energy. The work was carried out by the British Geological Survey (BGS) and AECOM. BGS used an existing data source to create a model to estimate depth, no new measurements were taken. More information can be found in the study report on the Scottish Government website: https://www.gov.scot/publications/study-potential-deep-geothermal-energy-scotland-volume-2/
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Identification info
- Metadata Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Dataset Reference Date (Publication)
- 2013-11-13
- Identifier
- www.gov.scot / SG_DepthAbandonedMines
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Energy resources
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GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4
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mine
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renewable energy source
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heat supply
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energy demand
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geothermal energy
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energy source
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IPSV Subjects List
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Energy efficiency
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- No limitations to public access
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- Non-Commercial Government Licence
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Available under the terms of the Non-Commercial Government Licence. The following attribution statement must be used to acknowledge the source of the information: Copyright Scottish Government, contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right (insert year) and British Geological Survey materials © UKRI (insert year).
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Denominator
- 10000
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- Environment
- Economy
- Society
- Code
- S92000003
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Temporal reference
Temporal extent
Temporal extent
- Code
- EPSG:4258
- Code
- EPSG:27700
Distribution Information
Data format
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Name Version WMS
1.3.0
WFS
2.0.0
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- Resource Locator
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Protocol Resource Locator Name WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://www.gov.scot/publications/scotland-heat-map-documents/ Scotland's Heat Map
OGC:WMS
https://heatmap.data.gov.scot/getows.ashx?ms=mapsources/OGC Depth_Mine_Workings
OGC:WFS
https://heatmap.data.gov.scot/getows.ashx?ms=mapsources/OGC&Version=2.0.0 HEAT:Depth_Mine_Workings
Data quality info
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- Statement
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This data comes from a 2013 Scottish Government commissioned study into the potential for deep geothermal energy. The work was carried out by the British Geological Survey (BGS). Existing sources of data were used, no new measurements were taken.
The vertical (depth) extent of mining in Scotland was calculated by generating a surface indicating the depth of mine workings across the Midland Valley. This was created using a dataset of all records in the BGS Single Onshore Borehole Index (SOBI: http://www.bgs.ac.uk/products/onshore/SOBI.html) that contained the word 'shaft' or 'pit'. These data were then filtered to remove those with a '0' start height, a '0' borehole length or those which started below ground level. The surface was created by interpolation in GOCAD® software. The volume of the mine-worked area (i.e. from the base of the mine workings to land surface) is estimated to be 6 x 1011 m3, or 600 km3.
More information can be found in the study report on the Scottish Government website: https://www.gov.scot/publications/study-potential-deep-geothermal-energy-scotland-volume-2/
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- File identifier
- 3c00732e-1733-48bb-b340-5bc33c3cc6c2 XML
- Metadata Language
- English
- Resource type
- Dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2023-11-30T10:12:20
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
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2.3
Point of contact
- Organisation name
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Scottish Government
- Position name
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GIS Analyst
- Delivery point
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Victoria Quay
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Edinburgh
- Administrative area
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City of Edinburgh
- Postal code
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EH6 6QQ
- Country
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United Kingdom
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GI-SAT@gov.scot SAT@gov.sco GI-SAT@gov.scot
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