Foggermountain open cast coal mine, Avonbridge

Object detail

Department

Photo

Maker

Thomas McInnes

Production date

24 Aug 1978

Subject place

Foggermountain Mine/Avonbridge/Muiravonside area

Subject notes

The surface is covered in peat and glacial gravels. Below them are beds of sandstone and coal. Coal measures in the Falkirk area are found in the Carboniferous Coal Measures and in the older Carboniferous Limestone Series. see locality field card.
As excavating machines became more powerful it was possible to mine coal just below the surface by stripping of the top cover rather than sinking a mine shaft as had to be the approach earlier even for such seams. The mine is now closed.

Accession number

P04181

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Subject category

Coal Mine; Opencast Mining Industry glacial gravel Sedimentary Rock Geology peat coal Lower Productive Coal Measures carboniferous sandstone

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