A GIS of the extent of historical mining activities in Scotland: explanatory notes

MacDonald, A.M.; Browne, M.A.E.; Smith, N.A.; Colman, T.; McMillan, A.A.

MacDonald, A.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6636-1499; Browne, M.A.E.; Smith, N.A.; Colman, T.; McMillan, A.A.. 2003 A GIS of the extent of historical mining activities in Scotland: explanatory notes. Nottingham, UK, British Geological Survey, 14pp. (CR/03/331N) (Unpublished)

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Abstract

As part of the secondment of BGS staff to SEPA to help implement the Water Framework
Directive (WFD) in Scotland, BGS have been asked to provide an approximate outline of the
extent of historical mining in Scotland. This will be used to help characterize pressures on
Scottish groundwater as part of the initial characterization of groundwater bodies for the WFD.
Initial characterization has to be completed by December 2004; for bodies deemed to be at risk
there will be further characterization after 2004. A team of BGS geologists carried out the work
during September 2003.
The aim of the study was:
“To delineate the extent of known and inferred historical and current shallow and deep

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