Probable Shallow Coal Mine Workings
Probable shallow coal mine workings contain locations and estimated extents of probable shallow underground workings for which no recorded plan exists, but where it is likely that workable coal at shallow depths has been mined before records were kept. The data has been estimated from available mining records by qualified mining surveyors.
Since 1872 there has been a law that requires all coal mine operators to deposit working plans of the mine with the Government following the cessation of operations. Prior to this date the plans were often destroyed or kept in private ownership.
This layer was constructed to show areas where the Coal Authority believe that there is evidence of past coal mine workings but have no formal abandonment plan for those workings, such as an adjacent mine plan may have the annotation ‘Ancient workings’, located by development and/or site investigation, the workings may even be shown on an estate/surface plan.
This dataset does not therefore constitute a complete dataset and omissions of recorded and unrecorded shallow workings do not constitute virgin un-worked ground; standing advice must prevail.
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Identification info
- Metadata Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Dataset Reference Date (Publication)
- 2014-09-26T00:00:04
- Identifier
- 4e32b0b3a6de77499a081c651520d65826800991_resource
- Status
- Completed
+44 (0)1623 637338
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/the-coal-authority
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
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GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4
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mining
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coal
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energy
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- Theme
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probable shallow workings
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underground
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mining report
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ground stability
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- Limitations on Public Access
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- This data, service or application is provided free of charge under the terms and conditions of the Open Government Licence. The full terms and conditions of the Open Government Licence can be viewed at: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/ If you need any additional advice please contact the Customer Service Team on +44 (0) 345 762 6848 or at groundstability@coal.gov.uk.
- Other constraints
- Open Government Licence
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Denominator
- 23625
- Denominator
- 70871
- Topic category
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- Location
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Temporal reference
Temporal extent
- Begin
- 2014-08-14
- End
- 2014-08-14
Temporal extent
Distribution Information
Data format
- Data format
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Name Version
Transfer options
- Resource Locator
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Protocol Resource Locator Name OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-map
https://map.bgs.ac.uk/arcgis/services/CoalAuthority/coalauthority_specific_risk/MapServer/WMSServer? Probable.Shallow.Coal.Mine.Workings
Data quality info
- Quality Scope
- Dataset
- Statement
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The National Coal Mining Database, which is based on the records held at The Coal Authority offices in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, is updated on a regular basis. This dataset has been extracted from this dynamic database on the date stated and therefore represents a snapshot in time.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 4e32b0b3a6de77499a081c651520d65826800991 XML
- Metadata Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Resource type
- Dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2021-08-26T15:27:06
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
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2.3
Point of contact
- Individual name
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The Customer Service Team
- Organisation name
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The Coal Authority
- Position name
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Customer Service Team
- Voice
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+44 (0)845 7626848
- Delivery point
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200 Lichfield Lane
- City
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Mansfield
- Administrative area
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Nottinghamshire
- Postal code
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NG18 4RG
- Country
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UK
- Electronic mail address
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groundstability@coal.gov groundstability@coal.gov.uk
- Role
- Point of contact
+44 (0)1623 637338
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/the-coal-authority