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Photograph of Welbeck deep mine
Work on sinking the two shafts, each 659m deep, at Welbeck Colliery at Meden Vale, Mansfield, Notts, began in 1912, with coal production commencing three years later. The colliery, owned prior to nationalisation by the New Hucknall Mining Company, worked the Top Hard seam until 1992.
With the exhaustion of the Parkgate seam reserves, the colliery is now re-entered the Deep Soft seam some 800m below ground, a seam it worked for a decade up until 1995.
Welbeck is a consistent producer of coal for the power station market it mainly serves, and currently employs around 550 people.
Annual output for 2006 = approx 1.2 Mtonnes
Annual output for 2007 = approx 1.1 Mtonnes