WILKINSON, Kinsley capacity, reports on Kinsley's fight for survival. ON 25: March Kinsley Drift will be at the national for pit closure.
Kinsley will be the next pit in line after Bates.
There is no doubt there is a future at Kinsley Drift if the mine were run properly. Any pit can be made uneconomic if you take. away the labour. We have lost miners through replacement. Headings are stood because ot a shortage of miners and no face replacements when the units have exhausted.
Only two years ago Kinsley Drift had the highest output of coal per shift in the Barnsley area and made a profit of £2.2 million Capital costs of £18 per tonne of coat are put on al Ainsies Drift, to wash our coal costs £63,000 a week.
Kinsley Drift was opened in 1979. Just six years of producing coal, at THE NCB has brutally and publicly rejected the recommendation that Bates colliery remain open. Kinsley Drift in west Yorkshire is the next pit in the Thing line. But Kinsley Drift is fighting back. PAUL Drift NUM, personal La cost of £60 million open. The Coal Board admits to 12½ million tonnes reserves of coal. going through a bad patch at the noncul out as nave their ups and downs But as usual we had very no media coverage. If we had voted cose ourselves would have made front page news. but because we are fighting they ignore us.
The decimation of the local community, and its attendant social evils Vote Tocher