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Photograph of Welbeck deep mine
Welbeck colliery is located at Meden Vale, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, and dates back to 1912, when two shafts were sunk to 635 metres below ground. Coal production began three years later and worked the Top Hard seam until 1992. Welbeck progressed to the Thoresby’s Parkgate seam reserves at this time and also re-entered the Deep Soft seam approximately 800 metres below ground, a seam it had worked for a decade up until 1995. The Welbeck colliery is planned to cease operations in the first quarter of 2010, after the last of its current reserves capable of economic exploitation has been mined.