UK Coal Surface Mines Limited (08492512): administration
- Status
- Administration ended
- Administration began
- 2014-11-14
- Administrators
- Matthew Boyd Callaghan, Robert Jonathan Hunt, David James Kelly
- Administrators' firm
- PwC
- Formerly
- Dexter Surface Mining Limited; Thoresby Colliery Limited
- Incorporated
- 2013-04-17
- Location
- Leeds
- Industry
- 05102 Open cast coal working
Why it went into administration
- Funding withdrawn / unable to refinance
- Property / lease costs
- Parent or group failure
From the administrators' statement
The Company operated four surface mines in the UK (in Northumberland, Derbyshire and Leicestershire) and two dormant mines in Shropshire and County Durham. Its principal activity was the production and supply of coal and the restoration of historical surface mine sites.
The Company was part of the UK Coal Group. July 2013 insolvency
In February 2013, a fire at the Daw Mill Colliery ultimately resulted in the insolvency of UKCOL, the main operating company for the deep mine and surface mine business within the UK Coal Group PwC was engaged shortly after the fire to assist in exploring options and PwC partners and directors were ultimately appointed administrators over various entities in July 2013.
Administrators' statement of proposals (2015-01-14) · Companies House register