Happs / Hall mining index to geological field notebooks

A detailed index into information relating to mining activity and hazards contained within select field notebooks held by the British Geological Survey (BGS). Two former National Coal Board (NCB) surveyors created the index in the 1970s by examining the historical archive of geological field notebooks held by BGS (at the time IGS; Institute of Geological Sciences) at their London and Leeds offices, and extracting detailed information relating to mining activity. The data cover England and Wales only, and notebooks deposited or produced after 1975 would not have been included in the index. Only notebooks containing information relating to mining activity (and associated hazards) are included in the index, so the data are mostly constrained to traditional coalfield areas, though all mining information included in the notebooks considered is included. Later data (after 1960) recorded on field record cards or directly onto field slips are not included. The indices are paper records, with one document per notebook. The documents are tables containing page numbers, an extract of detailed information from the notebook, and a reference to a geological map sheet, where applicable. The indices have been scanned and are held as multi-page TIF files. The spatial data (British National Grid 5 km or 10 km grid squares) and geologist name, notebook number and page number have been digitised and are held in the BGS corporate database system. This information can be used to identify the original notebook by reference to the BGS field notebook index. The index is an important dataset to be considered under the Mines (Precautions Against Inrushes) Regulations 1979 (PAIR).

Date (Creation): 1975

Citation identifier: http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608601

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Distributor
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Point of contact

Maintenance and update frequency: Not planned

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

Coal
Mining
Geological surveys
Mine planning
Mine surveying
Mineral industry
UK Location (INSPIRE)
Stratigraphic section
Mining history
Mining legislation
Economic geology
Geohazards

dataCentre

UK Location (INSPIRE)

Keywords

NERC_DDC

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: This dataset is currently not available online. For more information, contact BGS Enquiries (enquiries@bgs.ac.uk).

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.

Other constraints: Either: (i) the dataset is made freely available, e.g. via the Internet, for a restricted category of use (e.g. educational use only); or (ii) the dataset has not been formally approved by BGS for access and use by external clients under licence, but its use may be permitted under alternative formal arrangements; or (iii) the dataset contains 3rd party data or information obtained by BGS under terms and conditions that must be consulted in order to determine the permitted usage of the dataset. Refer to the BGS staff member responsible for the creation of the dataset if further advice is required. He / she should be familiar with the composition of the dataset, particularly with regard to 3rd party IPR contained in it, and any resultant use restrictions. This staff member should revert to the IPR Section ( ipr@bgs.ac.uk) for advice, should the position not be clear.

Spatial representation type: Vector

Distance: 5000 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001

Language: English

Topic category

Geoscientific information

Geographic identifier: EAW
ISO 3166_2 2009 revision

Geographic identifier: ENGLAND & WALES [id=149000]
British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation

Begin date: 1975

End date: 1992

Unique resource identifier: OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG::27700)

Distribution format

Name	Version

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://www.bgs.ac.uk/ngdc/	National Geoscience Data Centre (NGDC)

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Other: dataset

Conformance result

Title: INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Geology

Date (Publication): 2011

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Pass: No

Conformance result

Title: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Explanation: See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF

Pass: No

Statement: The original data were collected by staff of the Geological Survey in the 19th and 20th centuries and recorded in handwritten field notebooks. The index was created in the 1970s by expert surveyors from the National Coal Board who extracted information relating to mining hazards from notebooks available at the time in the London and Leeds offices. The hard-copy indexes were scanned to multi-page TIF format in 2009. Some of the index data have been digitised and are stored in the BGS corporate database.