Two U.K. Coal Mines to Close As Funding Refused
European News Editor for Industrial Info (Galway, Ireland) Two of only three deep pit coal mines in the U.K. face closure after the government refused to pay an extra £338 million ($499.6 million) to keep them open for a further three years.
The mines at Kellingley in North Yorkshire and Thoresby in Nottinghamshire now face closure by the end of the year, leaving the Hatfield mine in South Yorkshire as the only deep mine operating in the U.K..
