One of Britain’s last remaining coalmine operators will put an end to all mining operations from next month because it is clear that coal has “a limited future” in the UK. Durham-based Hargreaves Services, one of the largest remaining operators of surface mines in the UK, told investors on Tuesday that it plans to wind down its ... 
UK coalmines operator Hargreaves Services to end mining next month
MINEX Forum | June 12, 2020 One of Britain’s last remaining coalmine operators will put an end to all mining operations from next month because it is clear that coal has “a limited future” in the UK. Durham-based Hargreaves Services, one of the largest remaining operators of surface mines in the UK, told investors on Tuesday that it plans to wind down its ... 
Some residents in Northumberland are against plans to open a new site near Druridge Bay, which has a rich history of coal mining. Environmentalists and scientists have told Sky News that the government is failing to show leadership over the opening of new coal mines. Coal is one of the most carbon intensive fossil fuels ... 
Cornish Lithium, a start-up hoping to lead the development of an industry for the battery metal in the UK, became on Friday the first British miner to launch a crowdfunding campaign to finance its hunt for the commodity in the ancient mining region of Cornwall, in south-west England. The company is seeking to raise £1m ... 
Jeremy Corbyn, whose Labour Party came second in the 2017 UK general election, has reached out to communities hit hard by the downtown in the coal and steel industries. The Labour Party leader said a future Labour government would invest in former mining areas blighted by poverty, while also spending to promote renewable energy, said mining.com. “It’s about ... 
Used in the construction of some of the world’s most elegant landmarks, Portland stone is renowned. But after centuries of being quarried, surface reserves are dwindling, leading the only two licensed extraction firms to turn to mining instead. Mining-technology.com reports on how the transition underground is being made. What do such seemingly disparate edifices, both ... 
Image: newscientist.com Once the engine of the Industrial Revolution rooted in the UK, coal is now less popular than ever as an electricity source. According to Aurora Research, the fossil fuel contributed just 2% of total power generated in Britain in July. That’s half the amount of coal used in the same month last year. For the ... 
A UK academic group investigating “small deposit” mining – or keyhole mining – has received EUR7 million of funding under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program to advance work on “an ethical and sustainable international mining revolution” said mining-journal.com. Led by geologists from Cornwall’s Camborne School of Mines, the IMP@CT project team ... 
Image: businesscornwall.co.uk Newcomer Cornish Lithium Limited is hoping to lead the development of a lithium industry in the UK after acquiring the rights to drill for the mineral in the ancient mining region of Cornwall from Canadian junior Strongbow Exploration (TSX-V:SBW). With the deal, the start-up led by the head of mining research at Investec Plc, Jeremy Wrathall, is ...