Cadeby’s “Lost” Coal – Face Has Thinned To 15 Inches

May 1951

South Yorkshire Times, May 19th 1951

Cadeby’s “Lost” Coal

Face Has Thinned To 15 Inches

For 40 yards in one district of the Barnsley seam at Cadeby Main Colliery, Conisbrough, the coalface has been “lost,” but the management are confident that the coal will be “found” in due course.

The seam has diminished from a height of approximately 5 ft. 9 ins. to a height of approximately 15 inches. The remainder of the face now consists of “dirt.”

“Not Alarming”-

An N.C.B. executive described the condition last night as a “thinning,” due to deterioration of conditions.

“It will soon recover,” he explained. “It is nothing alarming from an N.C.B. point of view, and the management are hopeful that it will recover and the seam will be normal.”

He added that it was a geological trouble.

The position first arose about 10 weeks ago, and the “South Yorkshire Times” understands that the face is being taken forward in a search for the coal. This deterioration has naturally had its effect on the weekly output at the colliery. A miners’ leader at Cadeby on Wednesday estimated the fall at approximately 3,000 tons a week.

The pit production target is 11,400 tons a week, but Cadeby Main N.U.M. branch are pressing, through the representatives on the Pit Consultative Committee, for a reduction in this figure under the circumstances. The miners’ leader told our reporter that the reduction in output was being blamed on absenteeism but that was not the cause at all he said.