Banks Mining seek permission to dig Shotton Triangle

摘要

Plans to mine around 290,000 additional tonnes of coal at a North East surface mine have been submitted for consideration by Northumberland County Council. Banks Mining are looking to work an additional area on the western side of their existing Shotton surface mine, which it has named Shotton Triangle. Running concurrently with the existing site, extraction at Shotton Triangle would take two years from commencement to completion and no overall extension of time would be required, with restoration of the entire Shotton site still scheduled to be completed by October 2019.