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Two UK collieries, Maltby in South Yorkshire and Daw Mill in Warwickshire, are being prepared for closure because of geological problems compounded by an ever-dwindling market for UK-sourced coal. ...
Freak geological conditions within Maltby Colliery in South Yorkshire are set to cut profits for owners Hargreaves Services by up to £16million. The company said work on preparing a new face for use at the pit later this year has been suspended due to the ingress of water, oil, gas and other hydrocarbons. Miners had driven an underground roadway over a mile into a new area of the pit so that work could start on extracting the next panel of coal....