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Geological Map of the Canonbie Coalfield. From Peach and Horne (1903) [1] The Canonbie Coalfield is a small and largely concealed coalfield at Canonbie in the south of Scotland. A comprehensive survey by Peach and Horne was published in 1903. [1] Canonbie colliery was worked until 1920, and another mine at Archerbeck continued until 1942. [2]
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The area between Leadhills and Wanlockhead was the richest lead mining district in Scotland. [5]The Leadhills concession was obtained from the Earl of Hopetoun [6] on whose land a significant deposits of lead and silver had been mined since 1513, [7] and a limited gold mining operation had begun in 1517.
The Midlothian Coalfield is a coalfield in southeast Scotland situated immediately to the east and southeast of Edinburgh. It is geologically continuous with the East Fife Coalfield beneath the Firth of Forth though the undersea coal reserves have only been partly exploited. There were undersea workings extending from Prestonlinks Colliery.
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The Machrihanish Coalfield is a coalfield on the Kintyre peninsula in southwest Scotland. [1] It is one of the smallest British coalfields. With the exception of a thin coal beneath the Lyoncross Limestone in the overlying Upper Limestone Formation, all of the coal-bearing strata are found within the Limestone Coal Formation, a subdivision of the Clackmannan Group; all being strata of Namurian ...
The Longannet power station near Kincardine used to source much of its coal from nearby pits but the Longannet coal mine closed after severe flooding in 2002, an event which more or less marked the end of deep mining in Fife and indeed Scotland. Opencasting in Fife was severely reduced after the premature closure of the power station.