Proposed EU Directive on the Management of Waste from the Extractive Industries
TECHNICAL ANNEX
TABLE1
ESTIMATED MINERAL WASTE PRODUCTION IN THE UK
(Source: DEFRA, 19.6.2003. Note - the clay waste to saleable product ratio used in the above table is considered by the British Geological Survey (BGS) to significantly over-estimate the amount of waste produced by that sector. At opencast coal sites the ratio of waste to product may be in the range 12:1 to 18:1, although this is returned to the void as part of the restoration process)
TABLE 2
SUMMARY OF ACTIVE MINES AND QUARRIES IN THE UK IN 2003
Mineral worked | Number of active sites | England | Wales | Scotland | Northern Ireland |
Sand and Gravel | 801 | 578 | 26 | 119 | 78 |
Limestone | 347 | 264 | 51 | 13 | 19 |
Sandstone | 305 | 200 | 29 | 41 | 35 |
Igneous and Metamorphic Rock | 205 | 50 | 12 | 97 | 46 |
Common Clay and Shale | 178 | 164 | 5 | 7 | 2 |
Peat | 114 | 76 | 3 | 35 | 0 |
Chalk | 65 | 61 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
Opencast Coal | 55 | 27 | 7 | 21 | 0 |
Silica Sand | 48 | 35 | 3 | 10 | 0 |
Slate | 41 | 26 | 14 | 1 | 0 |
Deep mined coal | 26 | 18 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
China clay | 17 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Others* | 101 | 85 | 5 | 9 | 2 |
Total | 2303 | 1601 | 163 | 353 | 186 |
(Source: BGS BritPits Database).
* A full list of mineral types worked in the UK is given in Table 6
TABLE 3
UK EMPLOYMENT IN THE MINERALS INDUSTRY, 2001
Mineral | Great Britain (a) | Northern Ireland |
Mines | | Quarries | Total |
Underground | Surface | | |
Ball clay | - | - | 312 | 312 | - |
Calcspar | - | - | 8 | 8 | - |
Chalk | - | - | 557 | 557 | (c)… |
Chert and flint | - | - | 3 | 3 | - |
China clay | - | - | 482 | 482 | - |
Clay and shale | - | - | 1073 | 1073 | (c)… |
Coal (b) | (e)9535 | … | 3332 | 12867 | - |
Dolomite | - | - | 999 | 999 | - |
Fireclay | 2 | - | 32 | 34 | (c)… |
Fuller's earth | - | - | 8 | 8 | - |
Gypsum | 123 | 22 | 33 | 178 | - |
Honestone | 3 | 1 | - | 4 | - |
Igneous rock | - | - | 3065 | 3065 | 368 |
Limestone | 37 | 33 | 4769 | 4839 | 173 |
Oil and gas | - | - | - | (d) | - |
Ore minerals | 16 | 19 | 15 | 50 | - |
Peat | - | - | 253 | 253 | - |
Potash | 512 | 216 | - | 728 | - |
Salt | 31 | 20 | 3 | 54 | (c)… |
Sand and gravel | - | - | 7742 | 7742 | 427 |
Sandstone | - | - | 1593 | 1593 | 347 |
Silica sand | 6 | 6 | 826 | 838 | - |
Silica stone | - | - | 2 | 2 | - |
Slate | 6 | 39 | 502 | 547 | - |
Soapstone and talc | - | - | 2 | 2 | - |
Others | - | - | - | - | 286 |
Total | 10271 | 356 | 25611 | 36238 | 1601 |
(a) where more than one mineral is extracted in a mine or quarry all employment is attributed to the chief mineral
(b) at March 2002
(c) included with 'Others
(d) estimated workforce employed offshore, including personnel on offshore installations, mobile drilling rigs, service vessels, support barges and survey teams, 15,700 as at February 2001
(e) including surface workers at mines
Source: BGS UK Minerals Yearbook 2002, using data from the Office of National Statistics and Department of Enterprise Trade and Investment (Northern Ireland)
TABLE 4
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES AT WORKPLACES WITHIN THE MAIN MINERAL SECTORS IN 2000
Workplace (site) size by employees by SIC sub-sector | Employee size bands* |
| 1-49 | 50-299 | 300+ | Total |
1421 : Operation of gravel and sand pits | 1,134 | 49 | 2 | 1,185 |
1411 : Quarrying of stone for construction | 517 | 8 | - | 525 |
1412 : Quarrying of limestone, gypsum and chalk | 268 | 23 | 1 | 292 |
1010 : Mining and agglomeration of hard coal | 237 | 30 | 14 | 281 |
1422 : Mining of clays and kaolin | 152 | 23 | 1 | 176 |
1450 : Other mining and quarrying nec | 136 | 2 | - | 138 |
1413 : Quarrying of slate | 120 | - | - | 120 |
1430 : Mining of chemical & fertilizer minerals | 56 | 1 | 1 | 58 |
1030 : Extraction and agglomeration of peat | 39 | - | - | 39 |
1320 : Mining: non-ferrous metal ores | 18 | - | - | 18 |
1440 : Production of salt | 13 | 5 | - | 18 |
1310 : Mining of iron ores | 4 | - | - | 4 |
1020 : Mining and agglomeration of lignite | 1 | - | - | 1 |
Total | 2,695 | 141 | 19 | 2,855 |
Source: Annual Business Inquiry: Workplace Analysis
Note: The figures in this table were collected on a different basis to those in Table 3 and relate to a different year.