| 31. | The larger aqueduct from the Cothi crosses this opencast, proving the opencast to be earlier.
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| 32. | The larger aqueduct from the Cothi crosses this opencast, proving the opencast to be earlier.
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| 33. | Extensive opencast mining has taken place in more recent times and still continues in the area.
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| 34. | However opencast mining and small scale adit mining carried on in Cheadle up until the 1990s.
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| 35. | In 1965 plans were drawn up to opencast mine the coal seam beneath Radcliffe and Newbrough.
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| 36. | Only when all opencast work was uneconomical would the vein be pursued by tunnelling and stoping.
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| 37. | The installation was carried out between 1988 and 1991 in the Klettwitz-Nord opencast mine.
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| 38. | There were collieries here and opencast coal sites cleared many of the deep mines in April 1958.
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| 39. | After the opencast mine closed, the M1 motorway was constructed over the west of the parish.
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| 40. | In October 2011 Solid Energy opened the small opencast Reddale Mine near Reefton on the West Coast.
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