soil separation and backfilling procedures To reinforce its commitment to responsible opencast mining, coal explorer and miner Canyon Coal – a subsidiary of diversified mining company Menar ...

Plans for an opencast mine site in the Neath Valley have been refused – almost six years after the application was first submitted. The plans to extract coal and sandstone from Unity Mine at ...

Opencast mines in the UK are expected to produce 10m tonnes of coal this year Applications for opencast mining on greenfield sites are likely to increase to meet the UK's demand for energy ...

The cost to the public purse of large swathes of Scotland’s countryside being left “scarred” by abandoned opencast coal mines is to be probed by the country’s spending watchdog. The ...

Opencast mining operations in South Africa remain one of the industry’s main contributors to short- and long-term environmental damage, as they have a direct and cumulative impact on the air ...

Neighbours of the UK's last opencast mine say they have been betrayed by new plans to restore the site. Ffos-y-Fran's operators Merthyr (South Wales) Ltd were originally granted planning ...

ENVIRONMENTAL improvements to rival the Garden of Eden would not be enough to compensate residents for the "mayhem" created by opencast mining, a public inquiry was told. Government planning ...

A NEW opencast mine which will see the excavation of ten million tonnes of coal has been given the go-ahead, despite opposition from environmental groups and local residents. Midlothian Council ...

Climate activists have set up camp alongside the UK's largest opencast mine in Merthyr Tydfil. Campaign group Reclaim the Power say they will attempt to halt operations at the Ffos-y-Fran site on ...

Plans for an opencast mine site in the Neath Valley have been refused – almost six years after the application was first submitted. The plans to extract coal and sandstone from Unity Mine at ...