11. Bukuru is also associated with the opencast mine workings are exploitable deposits of kaolin. 12. The Margam line is now used by the new Parc Slip opencast mine for coal. 13. Mines now in operation are better managed under opencast mining as compared to the past. 14. Private adit mining and opencast mining ceased in 1994 with the exhaustion of economic reserves. 15. All the deep coal mines in the area have closed, but opencast mining still continues. 16. NCL produces coal through mechanised opencast mines but its commitments towards environmental protection is total. 17. In 1965 plans were drawn up to opencast mine the coal seam beneath Radcliffe and Newbrough. 18. Because of lignite opencast mining , a section of the course was diverted near Inden-Lamersdorf in 2003. 19. However opencast mining and small scale adit mining carried on in Cheadle up until the 1990s. 20. Extensive opencast mining has taken place in more recent times and still continues in the area.
