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    Shotton Surface Mine was an open cast coal mine located on the estate of Blagdon Hall, Northumberland, UK, operated by Banks Group. The mine was granted...
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    Wildlife Trust. Made of 1.5 million tonnes of earth from neighbouring Shotton Surface Mine, it is 34 metres (112 feet) high and 400 metres (1,300 feet) long...
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    gigantic statue of Milo of Croton. On the estate is Shotton Surface Mine, a large open cast coal mine and Northumberlandia (the "Lady of the North"), a...
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  • as planning gain for Banks' adjacent open-cast Shotton Surface Mine, which was approved in 2007. The mine was approved in 2007 despite 2,500 objections...
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    Bersham Colliery (category Coal mines in Wales)
    brickworks and steelworks in the area, including Brymbo Steel Works and Shotton Steel Works. When the colliery first opened it was named Glan-yr-Afon (English:...
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  • Open-pit coal mining in the United Kingdom (category Surface mines in England)
    protesters camping on the site. Banks had three additional operation sites in Shotton, and Brenkley Lane both in Northumberland, and Rusha in Scotland. All of...
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    Power Plant Innogy Nordsee 1 Garzweiler surface mine Gundremmingen Nuclear Power Plant Hambach surface mine Lingen Nuclear Power Plant Mittelplate Mülheim-Kärlich...
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    Hilliges, Otmar; Molyneaux, David; Newcombe, Richard; Kohli, Pushmeet; Shotton, Jamie; Hodges, Steve; Freeman, Dustin (2011). "Kinect Fusion". Proceedings...
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    19th century onwards as a result of investments in its harbour and coal mines. The town is twinned with the German town of Gerlingen. The original village...
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    Croesor quarry (category Slate mines in Gwynedd)
    Croesor quarry is a large underground slate mine in North Wales which was served by Croesor Tramway. Small scale quarrying began in the 1846, and by 1861...
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    Power Plant Innogy Nordsee 1 Garzweiler surface mine Gundremmingen Nuclear Power Plant Hambach surface mine Lingen Nuclear Power Plant Mittelplate Mülheim-Kärlich...
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    from where there is a ferry service to Ireland. Passengers can change at Shotton for the Borderlands Line, which links Wrexham with Bidston on the Wirral...
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    one at Shotton near Cramlington approved in 2007, the other at Potland Burn near Ashington approved in October 2008. However, the coal mined from Potland...
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    January to March 1980. In the wider business steel production ended at Shotton (1978), Consett (1980), Corby (1981) and Clydeside (1982). On 4 November...
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    brickworks and steelworks in the area, including Brymbo Steel Works and Shotton Steel Works. In Bersham, near Wrexham there was the Bersham Colliery and...
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    the north-east of England on which the Shotton Surface coal mine operates, and receives payments for the mine. In 2016 he was accused of lobbying for...
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    Home office statistics, there were 225 mines in Durham, with 72,272 workers, of whom 57,994 worked below the surface. Many of those workers originated from...
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    Daily Howl to amuse his best friend and later Quarrymen bandmate Pete Shotton, to whom he would show his work before he let anyone else see it. Turner...
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  • Power Plant Innogy Nordsee 1 Garzweiler surface mine Gundremmingen Nuclear Power Plant Hambach surface mine Lingen Nuclear Power Plant Mittelplate Mülheim-Kärlich...
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    commander of a battery of artillery. The estate was acquired in 1776 by lead mine owner Edward Jones from Holywell, who demolished and rebuilt Wepre Hall in...
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    tonnes of high-quality coking coal per year from the Park Wall North surface mine 4 miles away using a new transload facility in Wolsingham, which opened...
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    Power Plant Innogy Nordsee 1 Garzweiler surface mine Gundremmingen Nuclear Power Plant Hambach surface mine Lingen Nuclear Power Plant Mittelplate Mülheim-Kärlich...
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  • Chadbon as Ron Walker, Thomas Heathcote as Norman King, Ian Liston as Harry Shotton, Christopher Blake as Surgeon Lt. Newcombe, James Walsh as Joe Carter,...
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    the Beeching cuts of the 1960s, as a through route for steel produced in Shotton and wood for the Chirk MDF factory. On 24 April 1997, a wagon on an empty...
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    Power Plant Innogy Nordsee 1 Garzweiler surface mine Gundremmingen Nuclear Power Plant Hambach surface mine Lingen Nuclear Power Plant Mittelplate Mülheim-Kärlich...
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    the area closed in 1968, although drift mines and the much more mechanised and less labour-intensive surface level opencast mining did continue. Equally...
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    Honister Slate Mine (now the only operational slate mine in England) and sees the miniature railway previously used to carry the slate to the surface. Portillo...
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    clear identification of the separate arrivals of P-waves, S-waves and surface waves on seismograms and the first clear evidence that the Earth has a...
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    England - mines in the historic counties of County Durham, Northumberland, Cumberland, and Westmorland, and North Yorkshire's ironstone mines. The displays...
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    Aberpergwm drift and opencast mines in the Neath Valley; and the Cwmgwrach Colliery via the Onllwyn Washery and the Tower Opencast mine based at the site of the...
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