Datasets

  • Borehole shaft temperature profiles

    The Coal Authority undertakes monitoring of shafts and boreholes across Great Britain’s coalfields. As part of this monitoring geophysical instruments are used to profile shafts...

  • Gateshead mine water heat living laboratory

    This data is a collection of data from sensors deployed as part of the Gateshead Living Lab, pertaining to mine water level, mine water chemistry, mine water temperature, pore...

  • Mine Water Treatment Schemes

    Extents of individual mine water treatment schemes managed by the Coal Authority. These schemes treat waters that have been affected by past coal mining activities.

  • Mine Water Heat Opportunity Mapping for 10 Cities in England

    This is a collection of Opportunity Maps for mine water heat, produced for the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero, and their contractor AECOM, covering the following 10...

  • Abandoned coal mine catalogue

    A geographic catalogue of the plans of abandoned mines held by the Coal Authority. In November 2024, the Coal Authority changed its name to the Mining Remediation Authority to...

  • Geological disturbances which may have been affected by coal mining

    The dataset details types of geological disturbances which may have been affected by coal mining. It shows the best plot position for each geological fault, fissure and break...

  • Coal outcrops

    The coal outcrop identifies where an underground coal seam reaches rockhead, indicating coal that may have been worked at some time in the past. Whilst this dataset highlights...

  • Coal mining child phase

    The coal mining child phase dataset shows the position for each Child Phase taken from the information held by the Authority, and includes a number of attributes relating to...

  • Coal mining court orders

    In parts of the country, the High Court may have issued an order allowing a mine owner or mining operator to work coal where no previous mining lease was in existence. The Court...

  • Coal seam levels

    This coal seam levels dataset shows the level of underground working in metres along a specific point/contour, in a specific seam, above or below ordnance datum/sea level. A...

  • Coal mining legal notices

    The coal mining legal notice dataset details each notice issued to allow coal mining operations in areas where no mining lease was in existence, as taken from the information...

  • Coal mining licence area

    The coal mining licence area dataset shows the position for each License Area relating to both underground, opencast and underground coal gasification as taken from the...

  • Coal mining parent phase

    The coal mining parent phase data set records the chronology of an underground working (Proposed or Actual). A Parent Phase will typically start life as Proposed and as Coal is...

  • Probable coal workings

    The probable coal workings dataset contains the locations and estimated extents of probable underground coal workings for which no recorded plan exists, but where it is possible...

  • Coal roadways

    The coal roadways (spine roadways) dataset represents underground roadways connecting or leading to areas of underground coal working.

  • Unlicensed opencast coal mining

    The Unlicensed Opencast dataset contains the locations and extents of pre Coal Authority worked opencast sites i.e. as worked by National Coal Board/British Coal. Note: This...

  • Coal workings dates

    This dataset identifies the year the coal was mined at a geographic point in a specific seam.

  • Underground coal workings

    This dataset identifies areas where coal has been mined, or is currently being mined under the surface.