Legal Metals & Minerals News

Legal challenge dropped against WCM coal mine plans

A judicial review challenge has been withdrawn against plans for a new £165 million coal mine, mainly in the seabed off Whitehaven in West Cumbria. West Cumbria Mining (WCM) plans to produce “between two and three million tonnes of high quality, specialist, hard metallurgical coal per annum” at Woodhouse Colliery to supply the steel industry […]