Who'd Have Thought There'd Be a Shortage of Coal Mining Skills
Western Mail › January 31, 2007
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A company aiming to open five coal mines in South Wales warned yesterday that the region could soon run out of skilled miners and colliery technicians. The Welsh coal industry is reawakening because rising world energy prices have made fossil fuels far more valuable than they were when pits were written off as uneconomic in the 1980s and 1990s. But the intervening years have taken their toll on the once-proud skills base. While some of the old mines can be reopened relatively easily, South Wales is short of workers with the skills needed to run modern collieries.
Managers face having to bring in mining experts from outside Wales and are initially relying on former miners - some of whom are now in their 50s and 60s - who are fit enough and willing to go underground again.See the full content of this document
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Who'd Have Thought There'd Be a Shortage of Coal Mining Skills
Kenfig-based Horizon Mining, which is reopening a drift mine in the Vale of Neath, says the Mines Rescue Service - the specialist emergency service for collieries - a...
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