More than 2,000 mine workers in England will lose their jobs following the closure of the country’s biggest coal mining complex, near the northern town of Selby.
UK Coal, which has incurred losses of US$168 million over the past 3.5 years, will shut down the three pits in early 2004.
“It has been apparent for some time that our Selby mines have not been able to produce coal at an economic cost,” Gordon McPhie, UK Coal’s chief executive officer, told Agence France Press.
The closure will leave Britain with 11 deep mines, employing fewer than 10,000 workers, compared with 718,000 when the industry was nationalized in 1947.
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