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Mine Entry
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,... -
Past Shallow Coal Mine Workings
Past shallow coal mine workings are derived from the Coal Authority’s records of underground coal mine workings. This dataset has been created by extracting all those... -
Abandoned Mines Catalogue
The Abandoned Mines Catalogue is used as a search tool to determine the relevant abandonment plans to a given search criteria, identifying the spatial location and coverage of... -
Fissures and Breaklines
This dataset maps fissure and breakline features stored in the National Coal Mining Database. Fissures are a crack or opening in rock or the earth, created by mining in certain... -
Coal Authority - Mine Entries View Service (WMS)
This Web Mapping Service (WMS) contains a collection of information extracted from the National Coal Mining Database. This data represents a snapshot in time taken from the... -
Coal Mining Monitoring Points
Monitoring points consist of a variety of sites throughout the UK at which environmental data are gathered by the Authority. The types of data collected include water level,... -
Surface Coal Resource Areas
The Surface Coal Resource Areas define the coal resources capable of being extracted by surface mining methods, often referred to as ‘opencast’. This information is used by... -
Coal Mining Licence Areas
Upon privatisation of the coal industry in 1994 the Coal Authority was set up to take over a number of British Coal’s responsibilities; however these did not include the... -
Coal Authority - Abandoned Mines View Service (WMS)
This Web Mapping Service (WMS) contains a collection of information extracted from the National Coal Mining Database. This data represents a snapshot in time taken from the... -
Coal Authority - Planning and Policy Constraints View Service (WMS)
This Web Mapping Service (WMS) contains a collection of information extracted from the National Coal Mining Database. This data represents a snapshot in time taken from the... -
Mine Entry Potential Zone of Influence
A Mine Entry with Potential Zone of Influence is the area of the ground that might be affected if subsidence of the mine entry was to occur. Each mine entry has a zone of... -
Development Low Risk Area
The Development Low Risk Area is the part of the coal mining reporting area which contains no recorded coal mining legacy risks to the surface. New development within this... -
Coal Mining Reporting Area
The Coal Mining Reporting Area, also known as CON29M Coal and Brine Consultation Areas, is the known extent of coal mining activity and is used to determine whether a coal... -
Coal Outcrops
Coal outcrops illustrate a location where a workable coal seam is present at or close to the surface. This layer identifies where an underground coal seam reaches rockhead,... -
Development High Risk Area
The Development High Risk Area is the part of the coal mining reporting area which contains one or more recorded coal mining related features which have the potential for... -
Coal Authority - Coal Mining Reporting Areas View Service (WMS)
This Web Mapping Service (WMS) contains a collection of information extracted from the National Coal Mining Database. This data represents a snapshot in time taken from the... -
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... -
Surface Mining (Past and Current)
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... -
Coal Authority - Specific Risk Data View Service (WMS)
This Web Mapping Service (WMS) contains a collection of information extracted from the National Coal Mining Database. This data represents a snapshot in time taken from the...