New metallurgical coal mine to open.....

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    Didcot Red Well-Known Member

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    #1 Didcot Red, Apr 30, 2019
    At Whitehaven. I had to do a double take on this news as I thought that deep mining for coal in this country was history. Apparently not. A new mine is to be developed specialising in metallurgical coal, which is in short supply. The mine will exploit reserves under the Irish Sea and exported to steel works in Europe via Middlesbrough (I think). Certainly the railway serving Cumbria is being upgraded to take the coal wagons to the East coast.
     
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    #2 Vesp77, Apr 30, 2019
    Why are we still wasting time and money on fossil fuels?
     
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    #3 Didcot Red, Apr 30, 2019
    I think this is specialist coal for iron/steel making. I'm not sure if it can be made without coal, although I am about as far from an expert on such processes as it is possible to be.
     
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    #4 Stephen Dawson, Apr 30, 2019
    Especially coal. It's really hard to burn. Have you ever tried to start a fire using it? Talk about tedious. I'm all for re-installing heavy industries and creating jobs but agree there has to be a better way.
     
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    #5 thetykester, Apr 30, 2019
    It will be for the coking ovens to make metallurgical coke.
     
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    #6 Didcot Red, Apr 30, 2019
    Yes. I think you are correct. The article I read mentioned coking coal.
     
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    #7 thetykester, Apr 30, 2019
    Yeh mate worked at Monckton coke ovens at Royston up to it closing in 2014.
     
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    #8 Mr Badger, Apr 30, 2019
    Blimey, has that stinky old place closed now?
    Didn't know.
     
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    #9 Stephen Dawson, Apr 30, 2019
    It smelt like a permanent curry fart.
     
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    #10 Didcot Red, Apr 30, 2019
    There's a knack to it. When my Dad was alive we used to visit him in Wombwell. My sons used to be waiting for him to get up in the morning so they could "help" him light the coal fire. He used the wooden bridge method. When there was no wood he could light it with paper screws, although that was much more tricky. He also used a sheet of newspaper and a coal shovel to draw the fire. More often that not resulting it the paper catching fire.

    Towards the end of his "career" at Darfield Main he used to come home with Mother's Pride wrapper full of kindling wood which had been chopped during "slack"periods underground.
     
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    #11 thetykester, Apr 30, 2019
    Yep last oven to be pushed was oven 17 at 2pm Dec 16th 2014
     
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    #12 thetykester, Apr 30, 2019
    That's the sulphur mate, did stink a bit.
     
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    #13 derred, Apr 30, 2019
    Did a tour of Liberty steel at Rotherham. They said they couldn't get hold of coke now that all the coke ovens had closed so had switched to using anthracite. Always thought that was another name for coal, but seemingly they're different. It could be that they're mining.

    Seem to recall that Maltby colliery supplied coal for Monkton and closure of ovens may have been related to Maltby closing. Something to do with Hargreaves.
     
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    #14 thetykester, Apr 30, 2019
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    Yes indeed Maltby did supply us with coal & it's closure had an impact on MoncKton as we had to import coal from America. The killer for us though was the Chinese flooded the market with dirt cheap coke but no where near as good quality. :(
     
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    #15 thetykester, Apr 30, 2019
    Also, yes Hargreaves did own both Monckton coke works & Maltby pit.
     
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    #16 shed131, Apr 30, 2019
    Many years ago they did trials at grimethope whereby they were able to extract the carbon thus making it cleaner coal... Early 80s .. The technology was about then and if I'm not mistaken the whole product and its ownership was sold to the yanks...

    I also recall one of the lads on here been very knowledgeable about the said trials in fact the said discussion thread that was held was very interesting
     
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    #17 Dalestykes, May 1, 2019
    My first job after leaving school. An International Energy Agency (EAI) Fluidised Bed Combustion Project. It was a joint UK, USA, German project to, as you say, produce Clean Coal. Mrs T pulled the plug on the venture.
    Had some great 5 a side games with the technicians. The Germans were technically very good and the Americans were very..........enthusiastic.
     
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    #18 shed131, May 1, 2019
    Fluidised... Yep that's what my old fella spoke enthusiastically about when he was at grimethope...he said at the time... if it takes off it would revolutionise the coal industry... He passed away in 2014 and to his dying day he reckoned the pits would one day reopen... Looks like he's correct bless him
     
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