tarboat's photos with the keyword: seam

The course of the new Manchester Airport Relief Road passes through the Poynton/Norbury coal mining area close to the Norbury Brook. A number of coal seams have been exposed during the works including this thin split seam of poor quality material known locally as the Smithy Coal.

A coal seam exposed in a quarried face at Apedale. A very much younger Tarboat gives scale to the scene.

Cheshire is not widely known as a mining county but there is plenty of coal along the eastern fringe. This has been mined extensively and often on quite a large scale at places such as Poynton and Norbury. Coal seams can be found on the surface if you know where to look; this is the Gees or Silver seam in the bank of the Norbury Brook. It comprises about four feet of coal in three bands interspersed with shales and fireclay. Although the outcrop here is rather weathered, the coal still burns very nicely. :-)

Pecking at a seam in the Pingzhuang opencast coal mine, Mongolian Autonomous Region.