Little Rigend Hill, East Ayrshire

Opencast mining in Nithsdale

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One of many areas of opencast mining in East Ayrshire, now presumably inactive as a result of the financial difficulties of Scottish Coal, which is in administration, with questions as to who will pay for the restoration of the landscape.

Uploaded to Geograph by M J Richardson on 7 July 2013

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