for the type of mining using this name Open cast mining Opencast is a term to describe audio and video content, primarily in an academic context. It combines the terms Open for Open Source and or Open access publishing Open Access and Broadcast . The term has been coined in the context of the Opencast Community and the Opencast Matterhorn project. Opencast Community The Opencast Community was initiated by UC Berkeley in 2007 to gather academic institutions, individuals and companies interested in the production, management and distribution of academic audio and video content. Communication around related issues happens on the http www.opencastproject.org homepage and via the http www.opencastproject.org community mailing list mailinglist . Goals of the Opencast Community are described in the http www.opencastproject.org mission statement mission statement . The most prominent project under the hood of the Opencast Community is the Opencast Matterhorn build project. Opencast Matterhorn The Matterhorn project stems from the Opencast Community in that 13 institutions from North America and Europe initiated a cooperation to build an Open Source software to produce, manage and distribute academic audio and video content, especially lecture recordings. Matterhorn is supposed to bring about an easy to use chain of software components to automatise the related process. The project is supposed to combine the individual solutions and focus the efforts and experience of different universities in one shared open source open product. The creation of a unified system with an open development process is projected to foster the exchange of educational content also. The Opencast Matterhorn ... References references External links http www.opencastproject.org Official website of the Opencast Community http opencast.jira.com wiki display MH Opencast Matterhorn Project Home Wiki of the Opencast ... Opencast de Opencast es Opencast ... more details
Copy to Wikimedia Commons Summary Photo showing part of Stockton Opencast Mine in the South Island of New Zealand, taken by the uploading user on January 12th 2007. Licensing PD self date January 2007 ... more details
Hambach may refer to Hambach, Germany Hambach , a city in Germany Hambach Castle , in Germany Hambacher Fest , a German national democratic festival celebrated from 27 May to 30 May 1832 at Hambach Castle Hambach, Moselle Hambach , a commune in France commune in the Moselle d partement in France d partement , in France Tagebau Hambach , a large opencast mine in Germany disambig de Hambach fr Hambach homonymie it Hambach nl Hambach pl Hambach vo Hambach ... more details
Summary Stone crop at Holmside near Burnhope, Durham, England. Local legend has it as being ancient burial site, it is also known as Gardner s Crop . Licensing PD self date October 2006 This is an interseting concept. I suspect it was piled up by the previous Laird of the Manor Ivor Hutchinson in an attempt to cover up badger sets before opencast application. As the photographer was way off the puublic footpath when he took the picture he is trespassing on MY land. Comments please ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Greengairs is a village in North Lanarkshire , Scotland . It is around 4 km south of Cumbernauld , and adjoins the village of Wattston . Former Open pit mining opencast mine workings to the south of the village have been developed as Greengairs Landfill , the largest landfill site in Scotland.The Heritage is the local Pub. Coord 55.90 N 03.95 W display title Category Villages in North Lanarkshire NorthLanarkshire geo stub ... more details
coord 37 35 11 S 175 5 35 E region NZ display title Rotowaro was once a small coal mining township approximately 10 km west of Huntly, New Zealand Huntly in the Waikato region of New Zealand . The town was built especially for miners houses, but was entirely removed in the 1980s to make way for a large opencast mine. History Mining began in Rotowaro around 1915 after a Railway to the area, and bridge over the Waikato river were completed. Rotowaro train station was opened on the Huntly Awaroa railway on 11 February 1918. A hall was built in Rotowaro during the 1920s and opened by Rev H G Gilbert on 28 April 1929. The Royal Antedilluvian Order of Bufffaloes NZ Constitution of the Grand Lodge of England once had a lodge in Rotowaro, as did other Fraternal Orders. Rotowaro s association football team was one of the strongest clubs in the Waikato Region in the 1920s and 1930s, reaching later rounds of the Chatham Cup on several occasions. See also Rotowaro Carbonisation Plant http www.bushtramwayclub.com index.html?station index.html The Bush Tramway Club http www.coalnz.com index.cfm 1,204,432,0,html Rotowaro Opencast Rotowaro http www.archives.presbyterian.org.nz photodatabases 1929parishimages.htm Category Waikato Region Category Ghost towns in New Zealand Waikato geo stub ... more details
Image Stockton Opencast Mine NZ.jpg thumb right Part of the Stockton Opencast Mine. Stockton Mine , on the Stockton Coal Field, is New Zealand s largest opencast mining operation. ref cite web title Stockton Opencast work publisher Solid Energy date url http www.coalnz.com index.cfm 1,203,0,49,html format accessdate ref The entrance to the mine is at the former settlement of Stockton, New Zealand Stockton . The mine is operated by Solid Energy , who obtained the Stockton Coal Mining Licence CML in 1987 for a period of 40 years. The coal field is situated between 5 to 10 kilometres linear distance south west of Stockton. The southernmost part of the coal field is only 5km away from the historic mining town of Denniston, New Zealand Denniston . The elevation of the coal field varies between 500 and 1100m above sea level. The extracted coal is transported from the mine to an aerial ropeway near Stockton. The coal is transported to Hector and Ngakawau, New Zealand Ngakawau using this ropeway, doing away with the dangerous railway operation that plagued the Millerton, New Zealand Millerton and Denniston Inclines. From Ngakawau, most of the coal is transported by rail to Lyttelton, New Zealand Lyttelton , where it is exported via ship to steel makers in Japan , India , China , South Africa and Brazil . Parcels of coal are barge d from Westport to Port Kembla, New South Wales in Australia . ref cite web title Stockton Mine work publisher Solid Energy date March 2004 url http www.coalnz.com index.cfm 3,203,436 stockton factsheet.pdf format pdf doi accessdate ref While the Stockton mining has created local jobs, the environmental impact has created some resistance against extending the operation to include the proposed Cypress mine at Happy Valley. This led to the formation of the Save Happy Valley Campaign SHVC . The planned extension was halted when the rare indigenous Powelliphanta snail was found on the 2310 hectares covered by the CML. There are plans for two hydroelectric ... more details
effectively ended underground coal mining in Scotland. As of 2008, Open pit mining opencast coal mining continues in Scotland, with 51.4 of the Great Britain s opencast coal mines 18 out of 35 mines ... cite web url http www.bgs.ac.uk MineralsUK minequar coal occ home.html title Coal opencast coal mining ... more details
survey of the area. The Rajmahal Opencast Coal mine project was conceived in early 1980s, initially ... to 17 million tonne. Two more opencast coal mine of Eastern Coalfields Limited are coming in Godda district, Chuperbhita opencast coal mine project capacity 4 million tonne and Hurra C opencast ... more details
Cwm Hwnt is a tiny hamlet place hamlet to the west of Rhigos and south of Cefn Rhigos in the Cynon Valley , one of the South Wales Valleys . It is the farthest named settlement from the town of Aberdare that for postal reasons comes under that town. The name of Cwm Hwnt comes from the English meaning Valley Beyond There was previously a through road to the geographically neighbouring villages of Cwmgwraech and Blaengwraech in The Vale of Neath which was referred to as the Parish Road . However this road was closed in the late 90s due to the Sellar Opencast mine being dug, and the only routes to these villages are now via Cefn Rhigos and the main roads through Glyn Neath External links http www.geograph.org.uk search.php?i 3473744 www.geograph.co.uk photos of Cwm Hwnt and surrounding area coord 51.7378 3.5735 type city 50 region GB display title Rhondda Cynon Taff geo stub Category Populated places in Wales ... more details
The Industrial Railway Society was founded in the United Kingdom in 1949 as the Birmingham Locomotive Club Industrial Locomotive Information Section . It is devoted to the study of all aspects, and all gauges, of privately owned industrial railway s and locomotive s, both at in the UK and overseas. Examples include railways at colliery collieries , opencast coal pits, steel works, gas works, peat bogs, Ministry of Defence United Kingdom Ministry of Defence depots, engineering works, docks, electric power stations and locomotives powered by steam, diesel, petrol, battery, and electricity. The Society has published many handbooks on industrial railways and their locomotives and, for members, issues two regular magazines The Industrial Railway Record giving historical information and the Bulletin giving current information . External links http www.irsociety.co.uk Industrial Railway Society website UK rail stub Category United Kingdom organisation stubs Category Railway societies fr The Industrial Railway Record ... more details
infobox UK place country England static image static image caption latitude 53.03 longitude 02.28 official name Apedale population shire district shire county Staffordshire region West Midlands constituency westminster post town postcode district postcode area dial code os grid reference SJ8149 Apedale is a village in Staffordshire , England . The village is home to the convert 454 acre ha Apedale Community Country Park . The park is unusual for the area as it was previously as an opencast mine . The area has a long history of mining, with the nearby former collieries at Silverdale, Staffordshire Silverdale and Holditch also having being redeveloped for other uses. Category Villages in Staffordshire Staffordshire geo stub pl Apedale ... more details
Summary Information Description Excavations in progress at the Early Bronze Age copper mine within the Comet Lode Opencast, Copa Hill in June 1995. Sections some 4 5m deep within these infilling deposits revealed thousands of cobble stone tools, antler picks, fragments of rope and basketry, plus several oak and alder drainage launders. One such hollowed out log launder dated to c.2000 BC is being removed here for conservation at the NMGW, Cardiff. Photo S.Timberlake 1995. Source Antiquity Vol 78 No 302 December 2004 http www.antiquity.cc ProjGall timberlake index.html http www.antiquity.cc ProjGall timberlake images fig3big.jpg Date 1995 Author Simon Timberlake Permission GFDL author Dr. Simon Timberlake migration review ... more details
Image Hen Gapel Sion geograph.org.uk 307711.jpg thumb 250px Former Calvinistic Methodist chapel in Coed Talon Coed Talon also spelt Coed talon is a small, formerly industrial village between Leeswood and Treuddyn in Flintshire , North Wales . Its name is derived from the Welsh word coed wood and the word talwrn , anglicised to Talon , meaning a hillside devoid of trees or threshing floor perhaps referring to a wood beneath a bare hillside . ref name davies38 Davies, E. Flintshire place names , University of Wales Press, 1959, p.38 ref The area, about four miles from the market town of Mold, Flintshire Mold , was primarily agricultural until the nineteenth century, when following the discovery of coal and iron ore seams, an ironworks, collieries and brickworks were opened. There was also a silica quarry nearby at Waun y Llyn. The industries were served by a branch of the London and North Western Railway , who in 1892 introduced a passenger service to Coed Talon, running over part of the Wrexham and Minera Railway Wrexham and Minera Joint Railway to Brymbo in Denbighshire historic Denbighshire . ref name ds http www.disused stations.org.uk c coed talon index.shtml Coed Talon , Disused Stations ref The station closed in 1950 and the line to Brymbo was taken out of use shortly afterwards, though goods trains from Mold continued until 1963. However, the village still has a pub called the Railway Inn . The small scale colliery workings at Coed Talon operated until 1987, and were subsequently worked by the opencast coal mining opencast method. A brickworks also continued in operation at Coed Talon until relatively recently. References reflist Coord 53.1222 3.0948 type city 200 region GB display title Flintshire Category Villages in Flintshire Flintshire geo stub ... more details
Image Crossgates, Fife.jpg thumb right 300px Crossgates, approaching from the M90 motorway Crossgates is a small village in Fife , Scotland . It is located close to the junction of the M90 and A92, about two miles east of Dunfermline and a similar distance south west of Cowdenbeath . Crossgates has a long history of mining, of both deep and opencast varieties. In 2008 ATH Resources opened an opencast mine at Muir Dean to the south of the village, with the intention of removing 2,000,000 tons of coal. ref http www.ath.co.uk html news archive 06 11 2007.html ATH News Archive ref . Planning permission for the mine was initially refused by Fife Council but the decision was later overturned by the Scottish Government. ref http www.heraldscotland.com ath given permission to begin muir dean operations 1.868562 ATH given permission to begin Muir Dean operations Glasgow Herald ref Crossgates is designated as Fife s first energy efficient village . Sport Association football Crossgates is home to the Scottish Junior Football Association junior football soccer football club Crossgates Primrose F.C. Crossgates Primrose . Crossgates Primrose F.C play their home games at Humbug Park. Lawn Bowls Crossgates has it own Bowling Club which is located to the rear of the Community Centre Miners Institute and has been there since 1940. Notable residents Stuart Adamson , guitarist of The Skids , Big Country and The Raphaels ref http www.theskids.com biography.php ...Stuart s from Crossgates,... Bill Simpson Skids bassist, 2007 ref . References reflist coord 56 04 N 3 23 W region GB type city source GNS enwiki display title Category Villages in Fife Fife geo stub ... more details
August 2009 Minorca opencast UK Coal have proposed development of an opencast coal mining pit on the outskirts ... is historically a mining village. ref citeweb url http mopg.co.uk title Minorca Opencast Protest Group publisher Minorca Opencast Protest Group accessdate August 15, 2010 ref Sport Measham s local football ... Opencast Protest Group oscoor gbx SK334122 Category Villages in Leicestershire Category Civil parishes ... more details
About a village in Northumberland other uses Radcliffe disambiguation infobox UK place official name Radcliffe country England region North East England shire county Northumberland shire district Alnwick constituency westminster Berwick upon Tweed UK Parliament constituency Berwick upon Tweed population post town MORPETH postcode area NE postcode district NE65 dial code 01665 os grid reference NU265025 latitude 55.316 longitude 1.584 static image File 240px static image caption small small Radcliffe is a settlement in the county of Northumberland , England . It is located 1 km south of the town of Amble . Radcliffe was a Coal mining mining community, once home to over 700 people. A colliery was worked here until 1892, when a fault in the seam, then fire and flooding, made coal extraction uneconomical. New pit shafts were sunk nearby at Newburgh and later at Hauxley, but flooding remained a problem with the pits in this area. ref name 3villages Stewart, E. 2001 , The Three Villages , The Amble Social History Group ref By the mid twentieth century, the surviving pits in this area of Northumberland were also becoming uneconomical to run, especially when compared to extraction using opencast mine opencast mining techniques. The last shift worked underground at Radcliffe was on 2 February 1962 ref name 3villages . In 1965 plans were drawn up to opencast mine the coal seam beneath Radcliffe and Newbrough. The aging and somewhat run down, colliery owned housing stock of the village was demolished in 1971 to allow for opencast operations. The inhabitants that had not already moved voluntarily to take advantage of better housing, were relocated to Amble, onto an estate named the Radcliffe estate. Various streets in this town, such as Dandsfield Square , an award winning project when first built Citation needed date August 2007 , are named after the demolished streets of Radcliffe. As of 2009, opencast mining continues in the area, but the mining operations at Radc ... more details
The Ffos y fran Land Reclamation Scheme is a major opencast coal ing operation to the north east of Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales . It is a joint development undertaken by Miller Argent South Wales Ltd, a jointly owned company between The Miller Group Ltd, Argent Group PLC and Bernard J. Llewellyn JP representing family interests of the land. The scheme development is the last part of the East Merthyr Reclamation scheme , and will extract 10 million tonnes of coal over 15 years, the revenues from which will redevelop the current former industrial workings into residential and recreational use. The opencast coal mine has provoked criticism at a local ref name BBCbattle and national scale, including objections on health and safety grounds as to the close proximity of housing to the site, concerns of the despoiling of the landscape, and global concerns of the contribution of coal to climate change . ref http www.monbiot.com archives 2007 10 09 the new coal age The New Coal Age , George Monbiot , The Guardian , 9 October 2007 ref ref http gristmill.grist.org story 2007 7 12 11229 8694 Coal is the enemy of the human race , Dr James E. Hansen , 12 July 2007 ref A number of protests have occurred on and around the site. ref name protesthalt http news.bbc.co.uk 1 hi wales south east 7128984.stm Protest halts opencast mine work BBC News, 5 December 2007 ref Open Cast at Ffos y fran Background Following the 18th century development of Merthyr as an industrial centre, and the shut down of the deepcast Mining in Wales coal mining industry from the 1930s through to the 1980s, the area to the east .... The East Merthyr Reclamation Scheme is a euphemism for opencast mining. The presentation ... 1 hi wales 3125045.stm title Battle against opencast plan publisher BBC date 2003 08 05 .... ref cite news url http news.bbc.co.uk 1 hi wales 4414717.stm title Opencast protesters want ... south east 6185998.stm title Go ahead for huge opencast mine publisher BBC date 2006 11 27 accessdate ... more details
The United Kingdom produces about ten million tons of coal a year ref cite news url http www.bbc.co.uk news uk 10977640 title More opencast mine bids likely on greenfield sites work BBC News ref from open pit mines. The majority comes from Scotland ref cite news url http www.guardian.co.uk environment 2009 aug 14 coal energy title Opencast coalmine surge weakens UK s authority at climate change talks location London work The Guardian first Severin last Carrell date 2009 08 14 ref , with the largest operator there being the Scottish Coal subsidiary of Scottish Resources Group ref cite web url http www.scottishresources.com Companies ScottishCoal index.aspx title Scottish Coal ref they are rather unforthcoming about the locations of their mines. Statistics on open pit coal mining are compiled by the British Geological Survey from information provided by local planning authorities, and available at cite web url http www.bgs.ac.uk mineralsuk mines coal occ home.html title Opencast coal statistics . Any given site does not last very long four or five years at extraction rates of up to a quarter million tons a year. Open pit sites active in 2010 include ref cite web url http www.ukcoal.com sm locations title Active Surface Mines ref Miller Argent in Merthyr Tydfil Miller Argent run the Ffos y fran Land Reclamation Scheme in eastern Merthyr Tydfil, which involves mining the coal from under 367 hectares of land made derelict by earlier coal mining operations the coal will be provided to the Aberthaw Power Station on the Glamorgan coast. The project started in 2007 and is expected to last 17.5 years. UK COAL active sites in 2010 Long Moor 725kton initial reserve Lodge House Derbyshire 1Mton initial reserve Cutacre Greater Manchester, between Bolton and Salford 900kton initial reserve ref cite web url http www.ukcoal.com ds cutacre title Cutacre, Bolton, Greater Manchester accessdate 13 March 2010 ref Steadsburn fifteen miles north of Newcastle upon Tyne 1Mton initial reserve ... more details
large tanks for holding the water still visible above an isolated opencast pit carved in the side ... as rock debris after a vein was attacked using tools and fire setting to produce the opencast. The larger aqueduct from the Cothi crosses this opencast, proving the opencast to be earlier. Other ... more details
Image Dolaucothimap2.jpg thumb 320px Map of the gold mine The River Cothi is the largest tributary of the River Tywi in south Wales . It is noted for its trout and Brown trout sea trout sewin fishing and for its beautiful scenery. Dolaucothi The upper reaches of the river form a steep gorge from which a Roman aqueduct ran to the gold mines at Dolaucothi . The remains of this leat and others used at the mines to extract the gold are still visible at many spots along the Cothi and tributaries. The gold mines are owned by the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty National Trust , and the mines can be explored underground in guided tours. Many old adit s and galleries can be seen in the hillside above Pumsaint . The aqueducts fed many large tanks perched on the hills above the mine, and were used to prospect for the gold veins, as well as sweep away the waste overburden during opencast mining prior to underground working. coord 51 52 N 4 11 W display title region GB type river source GNS enwiki DEFAULTSORT Cothi Category Geography of Carmarthenshire Category Rivers of Wales Carmarthenshire geo stub cy Afon Cothi ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Image PugneysCountryPark.jpg thumb 350px right A view of the main lake at Pugneys Country Park from Sandal Castle. Pugneys Country Park is a Convert 250 acre km2 sing on park located on the A636 road A636 between Wakefield , West Yorkshire , England and Junction 39 of the M1 motorway . The area was developed from a former opencast mine and a sand and gravel quarry and was opened to the public in 1985. It is overlooked by Sandal Castle . The park comprises two lakes, the larger of which is dedicated to non powered watersports and the smaller lake is designated as a nature reserve. A 7.25 gauge miniature railway, running round part of the larger lake, operates on weekends and bank holidays, and cafeteria facilities are available. The nature reserve is home to a large flock of non breeding swan s, with up to 100 in residence at any time. The lakes serve as a flood defence by providing an overflow from the River Calder, West Yorkshire River Calder . Coord 53.6565 1.5038 type landmark region GB display title Category Parks and commons in Wakefield Category Country parks in Yorkshire ... more details
Rumer Hill Junction gbmapping SJ991090 was a Junction canal canal junction on the Cannock Extension Canal where the Churchbridge Branch left to join the Hatherton Canal . The junction, along with the northern section of the canal was abandoned in 1963. ref cite book author Hadfield, Charles title Canals of the West Midlands Volume 5 publisher David & Charles location Newton Abbott origyear 1966 year 1985 isbn 0 7153 8644 1 ref The Churchbridge Branch and Rumer Hill Junction were subsequently obliterated by Open pit mining opencast mining . ref cite book last Shill first Ray authorlink coauthors editor others title The Birmingham Canal Navigations origdate 2002 publisher Tempus Publishing Ltd. isbn 0 7524 2767 9 ref Whilst restoration of the Hatherton Canal is proposed, the restored canal will join the Cannock Extension Canal further south, and there are no proposals to restore any of the canals leading to the junction. See also Portal UK Waterways Canals of the United Kingdom History of the British canal system References Reflist Coord 52.6784 2.0132 display title region GB scale 10000 Category Birmingham Canal Navigations Category Canal junctions in England UK canal stub ... more details
Nord opencast mine. The F60 began operation in March 1991. Between its commission and its shutting ... P ckler Land is pursuing the goal of giving new momentum to the region and the former opencast mine ... more details
Sence Valley Forest Park is located to the north of Ibstock in North West Leicestershire , and within the National Forest, England . File Sence valley 2.jpg thumb right Sence Valley Forest Park coord 52 41 47.7 N 1 24 18.99 W region GB display title It is situated on the site of a former Open cast mine where, between 1982 and 1996, eight million tonnes of coal were extracted by opencast mining. ref http www.forestry.gov.uk website Recreation.nsf LUWebDocsByKey EnglandDerbyshireTheNationalForestSenceValley Sence Valley Forest Park ref The 60 hectare site has since been transformed by tree planting and the creation of lakes, and is now managed by the Forestry Commission . A series of paths provides access to a picnic area and the various fishing opportunities. There are also toilets and parking facilities for both the able bodied and the disabled. References reflist External links http www.leics.gov.uk country parks sence valley forest park.htm Sence Valley Forest Park Category Parks and open spaces in Leicestershire ... more details
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