2cdd2d07-4168-469e-8dd2-9f48baf9e71b English British Geological Survey +44 115 936 3100 Environmental Science Centre,Keyworth NOTTINGHAM NOTTINGHAMSHIRE NG12 5GG United Kingdom enquiries@bgs.ac.uk 2025-05-21T07:31:59.492243Z UK GEMINI 2.3 http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607914 OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG::27700) Temperature Maps of the British Coalfields 2020-11 http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607914 This dataset provides the first map and synthesis of the temperature of Britain's coalfields. It was created to support low-temperature heat recovery, cooling and storage schemes using mine water in abandoned workings. This baseline spatial mapping and synthesis of coalfield temperatures offers significant benefit to those planning, designing and regulating heat recovery and storage in Britain's abandoned coalfields. The data has been developed jointly by the Coal Authority and the British Geological Survey. It is delivered as a hexgrid representing mine water blocks, identifying equilibrium mine temperatures at 10 depth intervals (100m > 1000m) and pumped mine temperatures at 6 depth intervals (100m > 600m). Gareth Farr The Coal Authority 200 Lichfield Lane Mansfield NG18 4RG not available Enquiries British Geological Survey 029 2066 0147 Sophia House, 28 Cathedral Road CARDIFF CF11 9LJ United Kingdom enquiries@bgs.ac.uk Enquiries British Geological Survey 029 2066 0147 Sophia House, 28 Cathedral Road CARDIFF CF11 9LJ United Kingdom enquiries@bgs.ac.uk Enquiries British Geological Survey 0115 936 3143 0115 936 3276 Environmental Science Centre, Nicker Hill, Keyworth NOTTINGHAM NOTTINGHAMSHIRE NG12 5GG United Kingdom enquiries@bgs.ac.uk Enquiries British Geological Survey 0115 936 3143 0115 936 3276 Environmental Science Centre, Nicker Hill, Keyworth NOTTINGHAM NOTTINGHAMSHIRE NG12 5GG United Kingdom enquiries@bgs.ac.uk https://resources.bgs.ac.uk/images/geonetworkThumbs/2cdd2d07-4168-469e-8dd2-9f48baf9e71b.png Geology GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 UK Location (INSPIRE) Energy Carboniferous Coal Coal fields Mine waters Temperature BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences 2022 UK Location (INSPIRE) NERC_DDC licenceOGL Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]" Access constraints: no limitations. Use constraints: this dataset is available to view under the Open Government Licence V3 (https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/) to encourage its use and re-use, subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced BGS materials: 'Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI [year]'. Some of the data shown in the BGS view-only service layers are available to licence. The licence cost will generally be a licence administration fee, depending on the usage type and the area coverage of the dataset requested. Companies and other commercial organisations with an interest in reselling BGS data or developing value-added products and services based on BGS data will need a BGS data resellers licence. For more information, contact digitaldata@bgs.ac.uk. English geoscientificInformation ISO 3166_2 2009 GBN British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 GREAT BRITAIN [id=139600] -4.8614 1.8773 51.1732 56.2757 2020-11-16 Geopackage Shapefile Enquiries British Geological Survey 029 2066 0147 Sophia House, 28 Cathedral Road CARDIFF CF11 9LJ United Kingdom enquiries@bgs.ac.uk Enquiries British Geological Survey 0115 936 3143 0115 936 3276 Environmental Science Centre, Nicker Hill, Keyworth NOTTINGHAM NOTTINGHAMSHIRE NG12 5GG United Kingdom enquiries@bgs.ac.uk https://qjegh.lyellcollection.org/content/54/3/qjegh2020-109 Published Paper https://mapapps2.bgs.ac.uk/coalauthority/home.html Data view https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item172374 Data https://doi.org/10.5285/d4bb3df8-6f62-462c-8aa5-6b9867e2e5ae Digital Object Identifier (DOI) dataset INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Geology 2011 See the referenced specification false Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF false This map has been produced using Coal Authority ‘mine water blocks’ which illustrate the best known hydrological divisions in coalfields. The boundaries have been hexagonised to reflect uncertainty in their margins. Data from three sources was used to estimate temperatures including (1) Coal Authority downhole temperature profiles, from boreholes and shafts that intercept flooded workings; (2) the BGS UK Geothermal Catalogue (UKGC) including data from the National Coal Board, hydrocarbon boreholes and other investigative boreholes, representing both mined and unmined areas of the coalfields; (3) historical in situ strata temperatures measured directly in coal seams within operational coal mines.