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Captain Scarlet
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17 years ago

#21

"AdrianP" wrote:

BUT ... the landowner owns the space of a mine! So the shaft and passages belong to them, as well as any barren ground surrounding them.

So when Johnny Claimalot rubs his hands with glee after an old shaft opens up in his back garden, he better go and put his 'Wheres Theres Blame Theres A Claim' tee shirt back in the drawer, because he owns that shaft himself ?

STANDBY FOR ACTION!!!!...

AR
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17 years ago

#22

According to the DCC shaft capping info document (available online at http://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/Images/Treatment%20of%20Disused%20Lead%20Mine%20Shafts%201_tcm2-212095.pdf ) the responsibility for an abandoned mine would normally lie with the owner of the mineral rights, and only if the owner of the mineral rights cannot be traced does this responsibility pass to the landowner, presumably as they are then assumed to be the de facto owner of the mineral rights.

Follow the horses, Johnny my laddie, follow the horses canny lad-oh!