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Inventory of Closed Mine Waste Facilities in Northern Ireland - Phase 1 Data Collection and Categorisation Minerals and Waste Programme Progress Report CR/13/119N Inventory of closed mine waste facilities in Northern Ireland - Phase 1 Data collection and categorisation Minerals and Waste Programme Progress Report CR/13/119N BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MINERALS AND WASTE PROGRAMME PROGRESS REPORT CR/13/119N Inventory of closed mine waste The National Grid and other facilities in Northern Ireland - Ordnance Survey data © Crown Copyright and database rights 2013. Ordnance Survey Licence Phase 1 Data collection and No. 100021290. Keywords categorisation Mine Waste Directive, Abandoned Mines, Inventory, Northern Ireland. B Palumbo-Roe, K Linley, D Cameron, J Mankelow Bibliographical reference PALUMBO-ROE, B, LINLEY, Contributor K,CAMERON, D, MANKELOW, J. 2013. Inventory of closed mine T Johnston waste facilities in Northern Ireland - Phase 1 Data collection and categorisation. British Geological Survey Progress Report, CR/13/119. 53pp. Copyright in materials derived from the British Geological Survey’s work is owned by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and/or the authority that commissioned the work. You may not copy or adapt this publication without first obtaining permission. Contact the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Section, British Geological Survey, Keyworth, e-mail [email protected]. You may quote extracts of a reasonable length without prior permission, provided a full acknowledgement is given of the source of the extract. Maps and diagrams in this book use topography based on Ordnance Survey mapping. © NERC 2013. 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Environmental Science Centre, Keyworth, Nottingham NG12 5GG The British Geological Survey carries out the geological survey of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the latter as an agency Tel 0115 936 3241 Fax 0115 936 3488 service for the government of Northern Ireland), and of the email [email protected] surrounding continental shelf, as well as basic research projects. It also undertakes programmes of technical aid in geology in Murchison House, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3LA developing countries. Tel 0131 667 1000 Fax 0131 668 2683 The British Geological Survey is a component body of the Natural email [email protected] Environment Research Council. Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD Tel 020 7589 4090 Fax 020 7584 8270 Tel 020 7942 5344/45 email [email protected] Columbus House, Greenmeadow Springs, Tongwynlais, Cardiff CF15 7NE Tel 029 2052 1962 Fax 029 2052 1963 Maclean Building, Crowmarsh Gifford, Wallingford OX10 8BB Tel 01491 838800 Fax 01491 692345 Geological Survey of Northern Ireland, Colby House, Stranmillis Court, Belfast BT9 5BF Tel 028 9038 8462 Fax 028 9038 8461 www.bgs.ac.uk/gsni/ Parent Body Natural Environment Research Council, Polaris House, North Star Avenue, Swindon SN2 1EU Tel 01793 411500 Fax 01793 411501 www.nerc.ac.uk Website www.bgs.ac.uk Shop online at www.geologyshop.com BGS Progress Report CR/13/119 Foreword This mid-project report is a required deliverable for a BGS project commissioned by the Northern Ireland Department of the Environment (DoENI) to assist in their implementation of the EU Mine Waste Directive (MWD) with regards to Article 20 - Inventory of closed waste facilities. The objective of this project is to address the requirement of the Directive for an inventory of closed waste facilities, including abandoned facilities, which cause or could potentially cause serious negative environmental impacts or are a serious threat to human health. This report describes the approach taken and provides project progress evidence. Contents Foreword ......................................................................................................................................... i Contents ........................................................................................................................................... i Summary ........................................................................................................................................ 1 1 Introduction ............................................................................................................................ 3 1.1 Scope of the project ........................................................................................................ 3 1.2 The Mine Waste Directive .............................................................................................. 3 1.3 Criteria for the classification of waste facilities ............................................................. 4 1.4 Outline of approach ........................................................................................................ 6 2 Phase 1- Qualitative identification and categorisation of closed mine waste facilities in Northern Ireland. .......................................................................................................................... 7 2.1 Data collection ................................................................................................................ 7 2.2 Limitations ...................................................................................................................... 8 2.3 Classification of mineral working types ......................................................................... 8 2.4 Qualitative assessment for preliminary screening of closed mine sites ....................... 21 2.5 Construction minerals ................................................................................................... 22 2.6 Industrial minerals ........................................................................................................ 24 2.7 Energy minerals ............................................................................................................ 31 2.8 Metallic minerals .......................................................................................................... 32 3 Summary of findings and overall progress ........................................................................ 35 Appendix 1 “Guidance document for a risk-based pre-selection protocol for the inventory of closed waste facilities as required by Article 20 of the Directive 2006/21/EC”, European Commission 2011 ....................................................................................................... 37 Appendix 2 Environment Agency criteria for assessing serious environmental impacts39 Appendix 3 Summary of number of sites by commodity and secondary commodities produced ............................................................................................................................ 40 Appendix 4 Decision 2000/532/EC, the European Waste Catalogue (EWC 2002).......... 44 Glossary ........................................................................................................................................ 46 References .................................................................................................................................... 47 i BGS Progress Report CR/13/119 FIGURES Figure 1 Project Gantt chart ............................................................................................................ 3 Figure 2 Basalt sites ...................................................................................................................... 10 Figure 3 Igneous and metamorphic rock, slate, perlite and porcellanite sites .............................. 11 Figure 4 Sand and gravel and silica sand sites .............................................................................. 12 Figure 5 Sandstone (including gritstone) sites .............................................................................. 13 Figure 6 Coal, lignite, fireclay and peat sites ................................................................................ 14 Figure 7 Clay, shale and kaolin sites ............................................................................................. 15 Figure 8 Barytes, feldspar and salt sites ........................................................................................ 16 Figure 9 Chalk, dolomite and limestone sites ............................................................................... 17 Figure 10 Aluminium (bauxite) sites ............................................................................................ 18 Figure 11 Iron ore sites .................................................................................................................. 19 Figure 12 Copper and lead sites .................................................................................................... 20 Figure 13 Annex I Pre-selection protocol flowchart from European Commission (2011) ........... 38 TABLES Table 1 Hazard- pathway-receptor linkages at closed mine waste facility ..................................... 5 Table 2 Summary of closed mineral extraction sites in Northern Ireland .....................................
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