Mine Entry

Description

The Coal Authority has records of over 170,000 mine entries within the UK captured in the National Coal Mining Database from a variety of sources including abandonment plans, geological and Ordnance Survey plans. After 1872, there was a requirement for a coal mine owners to deposit their working plan for the mine with the State when the mine closed. Hence, there may be un-recorded mine entries to which the Coal Authority has no information or knowledge. The layer shows the best-plot position for each mine entry from the information held by the Coal Authority together with any treatment to that entry. Mine entries indicate the entrance into a mine working, for which there are two types: shafts and adits. Mine shafts are vertical or near vertical entrances to a mine whereas adits are a walkable entrance to a mine as shown on plans held by the Coal Authority. Mine entry positions are taken from a variety of plan sources which vary in age, scale, accuracy and condition. These factors determine the accuracy of the mine entry position derived.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
0 https://map.bgs.ac.uk/arcgis/services/CoalAuthority/coalauthority_specific_risk/MapServer/WMSServer?
0 https://map.bgs.ac.uk/arcgis/services/CoalAuthority/coalauthority_mine_entries/MapServer/WMSServerrequest=GetCapabilities

Tags

  • mining
  • mine-entry
  • underground
  • ground-stability
  • mining-report
  • coal

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