Despite record high prices for coal, operators claim they cannot afford to restore the site, a pretext for the licensing of the mine
Miners have continued to dig hundreds of tons a day from a controversial opencast coalmine in south Wales, months after its licence expired.
Despite its licence to operate having ended nine months ago, hydraulic dump trucks have continued to haul consignments of coal from the Ffos-y-Fran mine, just above the town of Merthyr Tydfil.
