Operations at the open coal pit continued, and the company got slapped with a tax fine.

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It would keep power prices up, at the expense of everyone except these generators, coal miners and pit owners.

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Caterpillar's dump trucks hauled the first coal out of the pit.

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The pit produced coal for more than 100 years.

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There will be an exciting programme where you will visit key attractions within Blaenavon Industrial Landscape such as Big Pit National Coal Museum, Blaenavon Ironworks, visit the industrial landscape, and the Blaenavon World Heritage Centre.

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The plan would not be fully realised for some time because East Pit's coal reserves would take around five years to exhaust.

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At 01:30 on Tuesday a methane and coal dust explosion occurred in the pit's South District.

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In the park, just over the road from the library, there is a coal dram - a memorial to the closure of the pit.

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Miners will march from the pit to a nearby cemetery where a lump of coal will be buried and two wreathes laid.

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It survived the closure of the pit in 1993 and relied on sponsorship money from a coal mining company, which ended in 2011.

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But in the early 1980s, a Socialist government reneged on its pledge to keep France's unprofitable coal mines open and, instead accelerated their closure, causing him to lose his job at a neighboring pit.

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