Talk:Open-pit coal mining in the United Kingdom

UK Mined Coal Production figures for 2013 Opencast Production  	= 	8,583,922m tonnes 	(67.7%) Deep Mined Production 	=	4,089,224m tonnes	(32.3%) Total				=    12, 673,146m tonnes (100%)

Reference : The Coal Authority, January 2014 http://coal.decc.gov.uk/assets/coal/news%20and%20notices/licensing/CSum%202013.pdf

Steve Leary, Co-ordinator, The Loose Anti Opencast Network — Preceding unsigned comment added by Steve Leary (talk • contribs) 19:05, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

Article update
I am trying to update this article but the recent history (2014-2015) of UK Coal is extraordinarily complicated with numerous companies being created and then liquidated. The deep mines have all been closed but I am trying to find out who now owns the open-pit mines. This article is helpful. Biscuittin (talk) 15:37, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
 * I have done a partial update but there is still more to do. It seems likely that Open-pit coal mining in the United Kingdom will cease during 2016 because of low coal prices. Biscuittin (talk) 21:18, 4 January 2016 (UTC)

Information provided in the other article
I updated the list of coal mines in the UK recently, and based on that information and reasoning (see the talk page of that article as well), I believe that other than freeminers only 3 surface mines operate at the end of 2020: Ffos, Hartington (this may have closed or about to close), and a small mine for domestic coal: Ayle Quarry Colliery, which I am positive is open because of their Facebook page. It would be interesting if this information could be confirmed or refuted (by adding more mines that operate if there are any). Also, it would be better to separate the operating "regular" sites, the freeminer sites, and the recently closed sites (which are too many to enter, and the list will be always incomplete). I would still keep a list of recently closed sites just for double checking but trying to be complete there may not be too useful or possible. Just examples: Banks mining closed 3 sites, Celtic Energy at least 3 as well, Hargreaves 2, UK Coal surface mines closed several since 2010, and so on. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2607:FEA8:12C0:7E1:640A:1870:18DB:2288 (talk) 02:41, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

Ayle Colliery
I took out what I added recently:

"Ayle Colliery Co Ltd mine domestic coal in Alston, Cumbria as of the end of 2020. According to the information on their website they produce between 960 and 1,200 tonnes of coal each year."

I feel that the mine is too small to be mentioned, and this sentence may be just taken as an advertisement for them. Anyone more knowledgeable about rules on Wikipedia feel free to do what's best. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2607:FEA8:12C0:7E1:640A:1870:18DB:2288 (talk) 03:35, 4 January 2021 (UTC)