| P number: | P001545 |
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| Old photograph number: | MNS02135 |
| Caption: | Dora Opencast Site area E, near Cowdenbeath, Fife. Looking north-east. Stoop and room workings in the Lochgelly Splint and Parrot coals of the Carboniferous Limestone Coal Group. A face-shovel rope excavator can be seen on the left. |
| Description: | Dora Opencast Site area E, near Cowdenbeath, Fife. Looking north-east. Stoop and room workings in the Lochgelly Splint and Parrot coals of the Carboniferous Limestone Coal Group. A face-shovel rope excavator can be seen on the left. Recent opencast coal mining has uncovered evidence of much older underground workings. The stoop and room method is a system of working by which the coal is extracted from its bed in a series of galleries or rooms leaving pillars or stoops to support the roof. |
| Date taken: | Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT 1977 |
| Photographer: | Unknown |
| Copyright statement: | Unknown |
| Acknowledgment: | This image was digitized with grant-in-aid from SCRAN the Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network |
| X longitude/easting: | 317300 |
| Y latitude/northing: | 619600 |
| Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: | 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid) |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 375.92 KB; 1000 x 791 pixels; 85 x 67 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 209 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
| Average Rating: | Not yet rated |
| Categories: | Best of BGS Images/ Industrial geology |
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