King Coal - BGS on BBC - Inside Out - East Midlands

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Interviews with Andrew Bloodworth, Head of BGS Minerals, starts at 4 mins 48 secs and Mike Stephenson, Head of Energy, BGS, starts at 8 mins 57 secs. October 2008.

It's more than 14 years since British Coal was privatised. In the 'dash for gas' most pits in the East Midlands were closed or mothballed. But now energy prices have rocketed and coal is being viewed as black gold once more.

The scientists at British Geological Survey in Keyworth outside Nottingham are world experts in mineral reserves.

Geological maps show that there are millions of tons of coal underneath the East Midlands, much of it fairly near the surface in the west of the region.

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[boltonuk]

nice video thanks