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Post by John on Jan 13, 2008 9:09:50 GMT -5
Hatfield is now in production. Her's an article from the Miners Advice site.
Congratulations To Hatfield Colliery
Congratulations To Hatfield Colliery whose first new face is due to come onto production on 2nd Jan 2008
The pit has set on new 'green' labour the first 36 new miners probably anywhere in Britian, 26 of whom are miners kids.
Budge one of the owners is to be congratulated on his long sighted faith in Hatfield and coal mining in particular. He is however still blind in one eye, fighting all efforts to restore the union to Hatfield. The union is fighting desperately to win enough workers to support the application for union recognition. We urge everyone at the pit, regardless of which coal field they come from and which pit they were previously based at to fall in with the local lads and join the NUM.
Good luck to Hatfield miners a vision for energy policy in Britian. The pit is to fuel a 'clean coal' power station and energy park and stands in sharp contrast to foolish and dangerous nuclear power plans or utterly destructive wind farms. Taken with energy conservation, a halt to new road building, and an end to all deforrestation across the world we might be in with a chance of slowing down the rate of climate change and surviving without going back to the stone age.
Dave Douglass
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Post by John on Jun 15, 2008 10:29:55 GMT -5
Youtube video
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Post by rhonddalad on Sept 13, 2008 3:56:07 GMT -5
Hatfield Colliery - Will they be mining the existing reserves at Hatfield Colliery or will they work those reserves previously included by British Coal in the Thorne 'take'?
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Post by John on Sept 13, 2008 6:18:22 GMT -5
Hatfield Colliery - Will they be mining the existing reserves at Hatfield Colliery or will they work those reserves previously included by British Coal in the Thorne 'take'? At a rough guess, the new reserves they were working before the mine went into care and maintenance, a couple of years back.
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Post by dazbt on Sept 13, 2008 16:44:53 GMT -5
Hatfield Colliery - Will they be mining the existing reserves at Hatfield Colliery or will they work those reserves previously included by British Coal in the Thorne 'take'? At the time of the announcement of the latest 'resurrection' by Mr Budge and his Russian colleagues it was stated that the new start would be in the Barnsley Bed seam reserves of Hatfield. From a report published around 2002 I believe I read that the then being worked High Hazels seam reserves were expected to be worked out by 2006 and that if sufficient funding could be made available that a drift into the Barnsley could provide 8 years of workable coal within the Hatfield boundries, with a possibility of entering the adjacent coal allotted originally to Thorne. I also believe there was a suggestion sometime prior to Hatfield being closed last time, that the area of the High Hazels being worked then, was know to be geologically difficult and not likely to last very long but that the same seam could have been developed fairly easily to the untouched reserves on the North side.
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