Britains new Super Mine

If you’re one of the two or three on here that require a précis before clicking a link then look away now. For anyone else the clue is in the title.

I found it very interesting and knew nothing about this.

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Hi, It’s a poly halite mine between Scarborough and Whitby ,just off the A171. I go by it regularly

Maurice

It always amazes me the diversity of useful minerals under the tiny island of Britain

In global terms Japan only got about 1 bucket of coal

Thanks for the link

H

Looking at the pictures you’d never guess it was a mine would you?

Will 7m, or so, at that depth (about a mile, for imperialists🙂 ) cause any subsequent settlement at the surface? I might guess not, but thinner seams of coal have led to subsidence in some areas.

I know they haven’t taken any coal (about a million tonnes?) from beneath Bolsover Castle. Grandfather took the ‘easy seams’ and the one I went along was only around one metre thick but less than 400m underground.

They took as much coal as they could get and allowed the roof to collapse behind the coal face with mechanical extraction. I didn’t have to actually crawl along the face but a severe ‘stoop’ was necessary to negotiate the hydraulic props behind the cutter. Some in our party were on their hands and knees all the way along the face!

Astonishing, Vic

See here for more: **LINK** https://www.angloamerican.com/products/polyhalite

MichaelG.

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Edit: __ including this softly-narrated ‘low-carbon’ pitch

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Edited By Michael Gilligan on 20/08/2023 08:31:35

Keep digging downwards and you can start looking at geothermal power

I believe it gets pretty toasty once you're down a few miles