Environment Agency closed mining waste facilities

Closed and abandoned mining waste facilities causing serious environmental impacts.

The environment Agency record sites where closed and abandoned mining waste facilities cause serious harm to the environment or to human health in England and Wales. Under the Mining Waste Directive we are required to make this list of sites available to the public.

The Environment Agency record those sites which cause serious harm to water quality and aquatic life. Our partners, including Defra, the Department for Communities and Local Government and Local Authorities, record those sites where there is potential for serious harm to human health or to property.

The inventory will be used to prioritise sites where action needs to be taken to clean up or stabilise closed and abandoned mining waste facilities.

A report has also been produced, as part of this dataset, which explains how mining waste sites were reviewed and how decisions were reached as to which were causing serious environmental impacts in order to produce this inventory.

Website:

http://apps.environment-agency.gov.uk/wiyby/139297.aspx

Date (Creation): 2014-01-01

Date (Publication): 2014-01-01

Date (Revision)

Edition: Version 2

Citation identifier: https://www.mica-project.eu/ / MICA_B3-44
MICA WP3 2018-11-03T15:16:00 Record extracted from Batch 3 spreadsheet

Other citation details: No other citation details provided

Purpose: Purpose for data generation is not known

Status: Completed

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Environment Agency			Resource provider

Maintenance and update frequency: Irregular

dataCentre

MICA
MET4TECH

MICA ontology (TemporalScheme)

Historic (includes data up to or including 2005)

MICA ontology (DataScheme)

General descriptive information / Website / Government organisation (Website)

Keywords

Requirement for data generation: Voluntary

Keywords

Method of data or information generation: Complete survey (i.e. a survey of all respondents)

GEMET Concepts

Environmental pollution

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Geology

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Minerals

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Monitoring environmental risk

INSPIRE commodities

Gold

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Silver

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Platinum

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Palladium

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Other platinum group metals (iridium)

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Other platinum group metals (osmium)

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Other platinum group metals (rhodium)

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Other platinum group metals (ruthenium)

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Aluminium

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Copper

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Lead

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Zinc

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Iron

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Manganese

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Tungsten