Sentence examples for colliery spoil from inspiring English sources

A PRB for the treatment of colliery spoil leachate from a site near Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, has been designed.

As a prime example, Jaume Plensa's monumental statue Dream crowns the restoration to open access woodland of the Sutton Manor Colliery spoil heap in the north-west.

I was at primary school when, in 1966, 116 children and 28 adults in the Welsh village of Aberfan were buried beneath colliery spoil.

The government is also paying out £350m to help former mining areas recover from pit closures, another £20m to clean up former colliery spoil heaps and £60m a year in pensions to older miners who lost out when pension terms were improved in the mid-1970s.

At the height of the coal industrialisation, 2.5 million tonnes of colliery spoil was tipped on the beaches that overlooked the four collieries at Noses Point, Easington, Horden, and Blackhall.

For detecting these interactions, a study was set up on virgin colliery mine spoil using a seed mixture of 49 ruderal species based on phytosociological considerations.

Thirty years on, the so-called black beaches of Durham, once darkened by the spoil from the collieries of Easington, Horden, Hawthorn and Blackhall, look nothing like they did in the final scenes of Get Carter (1971).

The spoil heap of Writhlington colliery is now the Writhlington Site of Special Scientific Interest, which includes 3,000 tons of Upper Carboniferous spoil from which more than 1,400 insect fossil specimens have been recovered.

The abandoned mine of Shilbottle Colliery, Northumberland, UK is an example of acidic spoil heap discharge that contains elevated levels of many metals.

Until the mid-1990s, spoil from the area's many collieries was dumped over the sea cliffs creating the vast "black beaches" and causing massive environmental damage.

By the end of the 19th century the colliery site had become crowded, and included a brickworks that used fireclay and shale spoil from the pit.