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| Daw Mill: Hundreds of jobs go at fire-hit mine | Daw Mill: Hundreds of jobs go at fire-hit mine |
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| Up to 650 jobs could go at a Warwickshire coal mine hit by an underground fire last month. | |
| Owners UK Coal had warned after the blaze on 22 February, that it was possible commercial mining might not resume at Daw Mill Colliery. | |
| The company now says a small team will remain on site to secure the mine over the coming months, but the majority of the workforce will be made redundant. | |
| Kevin McCullough, chief executive of UK Coal, said it was a "terrible week". | |
| Daw Mill is the last remaining deep mine on the Warwickshire coalfields, and one of the last in the UK. | |
| Fall in production | |
| UK Coal said last month's fire had been the largest at a UK coal mine in more than 30 years and was continuing to burn "ferociously". | |
| Over the past year, the company has announced restructuring programmes at the mine and in August said it was "unlikely" the mine would remain open after 2014. | |
| At the time, it said it had made overall losses of £20.6m in the six months to 30 June, with Daw Mill contributing to a 20% fall in production. | |
| About 56 million tonnes of coal is estimated to remain at the site. | About 56 million tonnes of coal is estimated to remain at the site. |