Daw Mill

Daw Mill
Daw Mill Colliery (photo September 2006)

Daw Mill is a coal mine located near the village of Arley (nr Coventry) in the English county of Warwickshire. The mine is Britain's biggest coal producer, mining a five-metre thick section of the Warwickshire Coalfield (known as the Warwickshire Thick) in the north of the county. It is owned and operated by UK Coal and currently employs 680 people.[1]

The shafts that serve Daw Mill Colliery were first sunk between 1956 and 1959 and 1969 and 1971 respectively. The mine is a natural extension of the former colliery at Kingsbury and Dexter Colliery in Hurley, both of which have since closed. In 1983 an inclined tunnel linking underground workings with the surface was completed. Known as a drift, this enabled Daw Mill to increase its production capacity as it removed the often time consuming process of winding coal up the shafts.

Daw Mill is the last surviving mine in a county that once had 20 operating collieries.[2] In 2008 the mine excavated record 3.25 million tons of coal beating a 13-year-old record for annual output set at Selby, North Yorkshire.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Macalister, Terry (8 December 2008). "Colliery on track for record output shows King Coal is striving to regain crown". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/dec/08/mining-fossilfuels. Retrieved 20 February 2009. 
  2. ^ Evans, Steve (21 June 2006). "Miner dies at Daw Mill". Coventry Telegraph. http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/tm_objectid=17266826&method=full&siteid=50003-name_page.html. Retrieved 20 February 2009. 

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Coordinates: 52°30′23″N 1°37′04″W / 52.50639°N 1.61778°W / 52.50639; -1.61778


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