Britain | Mining in Yorkshire
Wuthering Depths
A proposal to mine an area of natural beauty has few dissenters
YORKSHIREMEN have long observed that where there’s muck there’s brass. The county has a history of mining; lead extracted by Romans, iron by Victorians. A handful of coal mines survived the big pit closures of the 1970 and 1980s.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Wuthering Depths”
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