{"id":1102,"date":"2010-02-25T13:50:40","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T13:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=1102"},"modified":"2010-03-24T13:50:57","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T13:50:57","slug":"bgs-seeks-oldest-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=1102","title":{"rendered":"BGS seeks oldest mine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BGS is working on a national Mining  Plans Portal \u2013 \u00a0<a title=\"http:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/nocomico\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/nocomico\">www.bgs.ac.uk\/nocomico<\/a><br \/>\n\u2013 a  searchable online map and database is regularly updated. It\u2019s another  way to dig for information.<\/p>\n<p>There are many who would argue that  Great Britain was built on mining. But there is more to this than the  engine behind the Industrial Revolution. \u00a0Mining has been known on these  shores for around 5,000 years. \u00a0Despite this long history the earliest  detailed mine plans only go back to the 18th Century. \u00a0One of the  earliest is from the Esgair-Hir lead and silver mine in Cardiganshire,  dated 1704.<\/p>\n<p>Now the British Geological Survey (BGS) is searching  for the oldest mine plan in the country. \u00a0Only since 1872 have mine  owners been obliged to deposit plans of abandoned workings with the  Mining Records Office.<\/p>\n<p>But as BGS geologist Richard Shaw  explains, there are more mine plans in existence than officially  deposited. The BGS is actively seeking mine plans for minerals other  than coal, such as lead and zinc, which may exist in private  collections.<\/p>\n<p>Various official collections, catalogues and  indexes of non-coal mine plans are in public hands but these are thought  to cover only part of the total holdings estimated at more than 40,000  documents. Most coal plans are held by the Coal Authority.<\/p>\n<p>There  is more to this than historical curiosity. The underground voids caused  by mining are potentially lethal to life, limb and assets alike. Ground  movement can hack thousands of pounds off property values while mine  works and their spoil can cause pollution.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/planningblog.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/24\/searching-for-mine-plans\/\" href=\"http:\/\/planningblog.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/24\/searching-for-mine-plans\/\">LINK  to Planning Blog<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"http:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/nocomico\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/nocomico\/\">LINK to BGS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BGS is working on a national Mining Plans Portal \u2013 \u00a0www.bgs.ac.uk\/nocomico \u2013 a searchable online map and database is regularly updated. It\u2019s another way to dig for information. There are many who would argue that Great Britain was built on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=1102\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1103,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions\/1103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}