Merthyr Pit Reclamation – Ffos-y-Fran
Ffos-y-Fran began life not as a “new” mine but as a pit reclamation scheme formally agreed in the early 2000s to heal a scarred landscape of deep mining workings on the northeast edge of Merthyr Tydfil. It became far more than that. By 2023 it had grown into the largest opencast – that is, open-pit […]