Sentence examples for mineral plan from inspiring English sources

Dozens of Oxted residents attended the meeting with a planning inspector who was assessing the Surrey Mineral Plan.

Local people opposed to the quarries say that two of the sites have been "parachuted" into the county council's mineral plan at the last minute.

Mr al Fayed, who today attended the Oxted Sandpit Mineral Plans hearing at council offices in Kingston upon Thames, said: "I'm here today with so many of my neighbours to fight a battle that must be won against Surrey County Council and its plan to destroy large parts of the English countryside by allowing excessive and unnecessary quarrying".

The National Association of Manufacturers, a leading trade group fighting the proposal, has estimated the conflict minerals plan could cost industry between $9 to $16 billion to implement.

Planning permission must be obtained firstly from the local council and also from the minerals planning authority before drilling starts – with yet another approval from the Coal Authority if the process interferes with coal seams.

"Two of the sites have not featured in any previous iterations of the Dorset Mineral Site Plan, or the 2013-14 consultation period," said Garry Thompson of the action group Frome Residents Against Mineral Extraction (Frame).

Newer initiatives include the Kensington gold mine, located about 45 miles (72 km) north-northwest of Juneau, and the Pebble Project, a mineral exploration plan in the Bristol Bay region, about 200 miles (320 km) southwest of Anchorage.

The county council said if the plans were approved they would have to be referred to the government because Oaken Wood was not in the county's mineral extraction plan.

Although the park was popular, the mineral spa plans proved too expensive for local taxpayers and were abandoned in 1916.

Although mines are located based on the minerals, advance planning and analysis could avoid siting mine facilities where failure or leaks would cause too much natural resource damage.

The geology of the region — hard volcanic rock infused with other extremely hard minerals — favored the Plan B equipment, said Maurice B. Dusseault, a professor of engineering geology at the University of Waterloo in Canada.